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Welcome to the Tenant Participation Advisory Service Scotland
TPAS Scotland is the national tenant and landlord participation advisory service for Scotland. We promote good practice in tenant participation throughout Scotland.
Lesley Baird, Chief Executive of TPAS Scotland says "tenant involvement is essential if landlords are to meet the specific housing needs of their tenants. Tenant participation, however does not always happen naturally and TPAS offer a range of services to help you get the most out of tenant participation."
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Welfare Reform Briefing
UK Government changes to the welfare system are due to be introduced over the next few year. There are significant implications for tenants and social landlords.
To see the briefing click on link - Welfare Reform Briefing.
Making a start
Saving fuel and reducing carbon emissions has begun at TPAS. By all staff agreeing to work from home on Thursday's & Friday's we're able to save office power and the petrol used when commuting into Glasgow.
It's not going to save the plant but little steps, like this, are a start. With modern technology calls are answered and we can access our computer files, emails, etc. So far, we think it is working but we would like to hear from our customer.
Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland are offering financial help with training costs. Scottish businesses with up to 100 employees can apply for up to £5,000 towards employee training costs.
Housing Associations can apply for this funding, which can be used to enhance the skills of employees.
Contact TPAS to find out about what training we can offer you under the terms of the scheme, and how you can claim back 50% of the costs.
Click on the link for full details of the scheme http://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/our-services/services-for-employers/training/flexible-training-opportunities.aspx
TPAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY
TPAS Scotland Annual Conference & AGM 2012
Crieff Hydro Hotel, 26th - 28th October 2012
The TPAS Scotland Annual Conference is the biggest and best event of the year for tenants, residents and officers to meet and take part in a wide variety of workshops and plenary sessions.
Click here for more information.
TPAS Scotland helping you to reach your gold......
- Independent tenant advice
- Effective tenant consulation
- Audits or appraisals of existing strategies
- Policy Consultation
- TPAS Accreditation
- Assistance to develop tenant participation strategies
- Advice on how to engage hard to reach groups
- Help to organise events that encourage participation
- Tenant Participation Audits
- Provide local development support for tenant participation
- Training for tenants, residents and officers
- Participation strategy reviews
- and much, much more
......all leading to improving services.
Tenant Participation Workers Conference 2012
The Tenant Participation Conference 2012 is exclusively for staff involved in consultation and supporting tenants to participate.
This event is an excellent opportunity to meet, share ideas and experiences with other staff from across the nation.
CLICK ON PICTURE ABOVE TO DOWNLOAD BOOKING FORM AND FOR MORE INFORMATION.
TPAS join Happy to Translate
TPAS have taken another step to enabling their services to be barrier free! In addition to offering high quality services to all parts of
Lesley Baird the Chief Executive said “we have always considered ourselves a truly Scotland wide organisation, with few barriers in our path on the route to encouraging and enabling participation, we have now broken down another barrier, and are delighted to be a member of Happy to Translate and the benefits it will bring to us”.
Contact Lesley Baird at lesley.baird@tpasscotland.org.uk for more information about TPAS and its services.
Scottish Government Redraft of Social Housing Charter
The Scottish Government has made its redrafted version of the Social Housing Charter publically available. It is available on the SFHA website (click on SFHA logo for link).
Inclusion Scotland
Here is Inclusion Scotland's Human Rights to Independent Living - A tool-kit for disabled people and their advocates Click Here. We hope you find it useful. If you would like more information you can contact Inclusion Scotland at Glasgow office 0141 221 7589 - Edinburgh Office 0131 555 6887 or visit their website www.inclusionscotland.org
TPAS Scotland Accreditation
How good are you?
TPAS Accreditation is a robust and structured process for assessing how well organisations involve tenants and residents in ther service. TPAS Accreditation is aimed at landlords and contractors, the requirements for landlords and contractors are naturally different.
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Put tenant participation at the heart of your organisation
Providing and developing services that reflects needs lies at the heart of all housing organisations.
Is it time to review your tenant participation strategy? Are you up to date with the best ways of involving tenants? TPAS can help you decide what tenant participation measures suit you best.
An audit of your tenant participation strategy shows from the tenants' perspectives what is working and what isn't. To find out more give us a call on 0141 552 3633 or email enquiries@tpasscotland.org.uk