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Useful sites

These websites may be useful to you if you are a Presentation stakeholder or resident. They will open in a new browser window. Please read the disclaimer at the end of this page before following any links on this page.

 

Presentation's residents can find more useful links within the Residents section of our website.

Organisations

Find out about the following organisations:

Housing Corporation

www.housingcorp.gov.uk

The Housing Corporation website has useful information for Board members on:

  • how the Housing Corporation regulates housing associations

  • Housing Corporation Assessments (HCAs)

  • Housing Corporation publications including affordable homes, building stronger communities, and equality and diversity

  • news and events.

National Housing Federation

www.housing.org.uk

The National Housing Federation website provides Board members with information on the following:

  • training courses, events and conferences for Board members

  • social housing policies and news

  • discussion papers on issues affecting the sector

  • bookshop with a wide range of publications on the social housing sector.

The Housing Ombudsman Service

www.ihos.org.uk

The Housing Ombudsman Service deals with any complaints about shortcomings in the way homes are managed by social landlords as long as it is made by the resident affected or an authorised representative. The website provides information about:

  • landlords and agents

  • complaints and advisers

  • service standards of the Independent Housing Ombudsman

  • how to contact the Independent Housing Ombudsman.

Commission for Racial Equality

www.cre.gov.uk

The Commission for Racial Equality website provides information on the work of the Commission including:

  • legal powers and formal investigations of the Commission

  • policies and strategies

  • the race equality duty

  • legal advice from the Commission

  • diversity and integration

  • research and publications by the Commission.

Equal Opportunities Commission

www.eoc.org.uk

The website of the Equal Opportunities Commission provides visitors to the site with;

  • general information about the Commission, an overview of the organisation, what it stands for and what it does

  • advice on how to put equality into practice

  • policy and campaigns

  • research and statistics

  • the law on equality

  • publications on equality by the Commission.

Quality Housing Services

www.qhs.org.uk

The site has information on:

  • introduction to Quality Housing Services (QHS)

  • QHS certification

  • members of QHS

  • news and forthcoming events.

 

It also offers documents on QHS certification that you can download.

The Information Commissioner's Office

www.ico.gov.uk

You can find the following on the Information Commissioner’s website:

  • how to protect your personal information

  • how to get official information from public bodies

  • information about the Freedom of Information Act

  • information on the environment.

Department for Communities and Local Government

www.communities.gov.uk

The work of the Department for Communities and Local Government is at the heart of the Government's commitment to social justice - driving social mobility and promoting economic inclusion.

On the website you can find information on:

  • the department's ministerial team, its Board and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies

  • the department's organisational chart

  • the department's policy remit including its main objectives and Public Service Agreements.

  • links to annual reports, business plans and health and safety reports

  • information on procurement policy and better regulation.

Disclaimer

Please be aware that we do not control and are not responsible for these websites or their content. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this website, you do so entirely at your own risk.