Synopsis / Speakers
This one day training course has been updated to provide practical information and expert guidance on how to inspect a student house.
Suitable for:
Those working within educational institutions, housing associations, letting officers, property managers and student union staff who need to visit off street houses to make an assessment as to their suitability for student occupancy.
This ‘hands on’ course will provide information on:
• Risk analysis and hazard identification
• Disrepair
• Management issues
• Licensing standards under the Housing Act 2004
• The Housing Health and Safety Rating System
• Preparing an inspection report.
This is a practical based course carried out in a round table format. It is designed to equip staff with the ability to make an informed judgement about the suitability of a house.
Because of the participative nature of this course numbers are limited to 20 delegates.
Speakers
Martin Blakey, Chief Executive, Unipol Student Homes
An experienced trainer in student housing, its development and on-going management.
Phil Moxon, Independent Environmental Health Office
Phil is a qualified Environmental Health Officer with over 30 years experience as a housing professional with memberships of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Royal Society of Health, and the Chartered Institute of Housing.
He has worked for a number of local authorities and during that time at a large West Midlands City Council, specialised in the enforcement of housing standards in the private rented sector with particular emphasis on houses in multiple occupation.
In 1988 he began working for UNIPOL as a trainer on various courses relating to risk assessment and the survey of student properties in the private rented sector. He has also lectured extensively on a number of undergraduate courses at the University of Central England eventually becoming a Visiting Fellow to the School of Housing from 1997 onwards.
In 2001 he established his own consultancy specialising in risk assessment of residential accommodation with particular reference to the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and has since completed risk assessments on student accommodation for a large number of Universities and Colleges.
In 2003 he was selected by Warwick University to be a national trainer on the Housing Health and Safety Rating System together with statutory enforcement and has delivered training courses for local authority staff and other organisations nationally.
