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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.
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.
TPAS Conference 2012
The TPAS Annual conference is the biggest event in Scotland for Tenants, Residents, Officers and anyone working in housing. This year the conference will be held in the Crieff Hydro on the 26th - 28th October.
Come along to this event and meet friends, old and new, network with other delegates from all over Scotland and learn from our range of workshops and plenary sessions. We will once again have our popular opening session, a wide variety of workshops on offer, together with a short play, and an exciting opening and closing session.
Last year event was attended by more than 300 delegates from all over Scotland, who have provided excellent feedback on the conference.
Some of last years feedback...
- Everyone most pleasant and polite, food excellent
- Excellent all round service - I'd definitely com back again
- Gets better every year - well done again the team at TPAS
- Thanks again for an amazing time - you guys are simply the best!
- Very good choice of workshops with a wide range of interesting topics, all very useful
If there is any topic that you would specifically like us to deliver as a workshop, please get in touch and will do our best to accommodate this.
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.
Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland are offering financial help with training costs. Scottish businesses with up to 150 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
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
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