Jan Luba QC- Garden Court Chambers
Peter Fenn- Head of Landlords’ Services and Regulation- Communities and Local Government
Gill Marshall Solicitor- Regulation and Enforcement- Leeds City Council
Ian Brady Deputy Director- Youth Task Force, Dept. for Children, Schools and Families
Habib Aziz Senior Lawyer- Housing Team Leader, Leeds City Council

Programme Includes:
Evidence in ASB and social housing cases (including RIPA)
ASB Case Management issues
Injunctions in Action
ABCs, ASBOs, and ASBIs
Problem Areas and how to deal with them
Case Law Update: ASB and Possession
The new role of the Youth Task Force
ASB Policy guidance

Registration fee held at last year’s price: only £295 +VAT plus SPECIAL Third and Additional Delegate HALF PRICE* OFFER
(* see terms and conditions)

Get your share of Gold
Come to our national conferences and learn from the best practice of the 2008 Gold Award winners. Winners of the Housing Corporation's Gold Award for Excellence are funded to spend nine months sharing their best practice so that other social housing providers can learn from, replicate and adapt their initiatives.

Building cohesive communities - Birmingham
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At this session you will be able to hear about how Gold Award winners Ashram, Old Ford Housing Association and The Papworth Trust have achieved much more stable, productive and cohesive neighbourhoods in which all people value, respect and support each other in meeting their individual and collective aspirations.

Delivering joined-up development - London
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Gold Award winners - Great Places, Newlon Housing Trust and Nomad E5 - have delivered much more than homes. They have demonstrated effective and close working relationships with a range of public and statutory partners, which collectively improve both the built and social environment for local communities.

For more than a decade vacancy rates dropped year on year, but suddenly as the housing market has taken a downturn empty homes are rising and rising fast. The latest figures show 762,655 in England alone. The reasons behind the rise are new and the response from practitioners needs to be new too to ensure that these homes are returned to use for the many people who need homes
- David Ireland, Chief Executive, Empty Homes Agency 1st August 2008

The number of empty and abandoned properties throughout the UK poses a huge challenge for housing professionals working to bring them back into use. As the number of empty properties rise across the county, the need for urgent and effective measures to curb this increase is greater than ever.

Capita's 3rd Tackling Empty Homes Conference, in association with the Empty Homes Agency, brings together expert guidance and advice on a range of tools to help you reduce the number of empty homes in your area.

Issues covered include:
Up to date guidance from the Empty Homes Agency on Empty Dwelling Management Orders
Working with reluctant owners engaging with landlords and identifying appropriate solutions
Working with internal partners
Using suitable legislative tools to recover empty homes
Making homes habitable once they are recovered
Attend this conference to benefit from practical advice and case study examples from across the UK and share your experiences with colleagues and our expert speakers.

Keynote Address:

Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform, Department for Work and Pensions

Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive Designate, Homes and Communities Agency

Chaired By: Abigail Davies, Head of Policy, Chartered Institute of housing

Capita’s National Social Housing and Worklessness conference will address the key challenges surrounding the employment, training and educational development of social tenants.

This timely conference will assess current best practice for offering social tenants holistic packages of support through Enhanced Housing Options, as well as providing strategic updates from the Homes and Communities Agency and Department for Work and Pensions. Sessions will focus on:

• Changes to benefits and employment
• The business case for aiding social tenants into employment
• Removing barriers to employment, training and education
• Upskilling and training your frontline housing advisers
to better signpost tenants
• Promotion and marketing of employment programmes
• Targeting hard to reach groups
• Establishing local business and employment partnerships

Delegates will have the opportunity to question our expert speakers and discuss their own challenges and experiences through our participatory panel discussion. Award winning organisations will highlight how housing and work support can be effectively combined to tackle worklessness amongst social housing tenants.

Our 25th Conference and Exhibition is the major event in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) social housing calendar that will bring together representatives from housing organisations across the country to provide a unique learning and networking experience.

This year’s event incorporates the FBHO Awards Ceremony. For details about the National Awards event and to download nomination forms visit www.fbho.org.uk

Join your colleagues from across the sector and participate in the BME Social Housing event of the year. We believe that the 2008 conference and exhibition (inc Awards) offer participants an exceptional opportunity to learn, interact and grow within the sector.

Invited Speakers this year Include:

Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive, Homes and Communities Agency

Susan Scholefield - Director General - Cohesion and Resilience

Atul Patel, Group Chief Executive, LHA-ASRA

Olu Olanrewaju, Chief Executive, Midland Heart Housing Association

Dr Waqar Azim, Chairman and Managing Partner, Waterhouse Consulting Group

Dr Jennifer Lowe, Policy Researcher, FBHO

Karl George, Managing Director, KgISS

Why Attend Conference 2008?

Excellent value for money

Inspiring Plenary sessions

Focused seminar sessions

Unlimited networking opportunities

Online Registration

We look forward to welcoming you at the event.

A new template for mental health services in the twenty-first century - but is it progress?

This seminar provides an overview of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 2007. Delegates will develop an understanding of the protection afforded to vulnerable adults and explore the implications of the first major change to mental health legislation for a quarter of a century.

This important European Conference will be an opportunity for representatives from homeless organisations, policy makers, housing experts
and researchers to discuss key issues in relation to housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness.

The conference will be an opportunity to:

Explore effective housing solutions for people who are homeless
Discuss the role of social housing operators and private landlords in providing housing for people who are homeless
Examine the potential of a justiciable right to housing
Learn about the prevention of homelessness through housing measures
Analyse homeownership as a solution to homelessness
Meet homeless organisations, policy makers and housing experts from across the European Union and beyond
Participate in five interactive workshops
Compare local housing projects with similar initiatives from across Europe
Access the latest publications and research on homelessness
Present your organisation and its work in the Information Forum
Understand how to get involved in FEANTSA's activities in related areas such as campaigning, health, employment, participation, data collection and housing rights

Caroline Flint, Grant Shapps and Lembit Opik will be answering your questions at ROOF’s annual conference. With affordability at crisis point how do we stabilise the situation and move forward? Find out what the experts think.

Attend the ROOF conference and influence the debate

Highlights of the conference will include:

The second ROOF annual debate, featuring the Housing Minister Caroline Flint MP, Conservative Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP, and Liberal Democrat Housing Spokesperson Lembit Opik MP.

A choice of three workshops: 'Housing and the poverty trap', 'Repossessions and the mortgage safety net' or 'Affordability - misguided expectations'.

Discussion led by expert speakers, including Dr Vince Cable MP.

Social landlords have been required to comply with a pre-action protocol in rent arrears possession cases since October 2006 the result has been a drop in the number of Court claims for possession issued. With effect from late autumn a similar, ground-breaking protocol will apply to mortgage arrears possession claims.

Seminar objectives:
Delegates will become familiar with the contents of the pre-action protocol as well as other regulatory/good practice material issued by the Financial Services Authority and Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Seminar contains:
Detailed consideration of the pre-action protocol
Mortgage Conduct of Business Rules
Council of Mortgage Lenders guidance
Civil Procedure Rules issues in mortgage possession claims.

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Who should attend?

Homelessness prevention officers, housing advisers, debt workers and Court duty scheme advisers who are familiar with basic mortgage possession law.

Engaging tenants and communities in decision-making about their homes, neighbourhoods and landlord services is now seen as the only way to make social housing an attractive sector of choice for people in England. Capita’s National Tenant Engagement Conference pinpoints how the current regulatory shake-up in social housing will rebalance scrutiny and expertise to better support residents’ needs and aspirations.

Coinciding with the National Tenant Voice Consultation and the launch of the Tenants Services Association, this timely event examines how meaningful tenant involvement can be embedded and sustained at a national, regional and local level including:

- Partnership working across communities
- Building trust and capacity with tenants
- Driving and measuring performance
- Investing in training

Don’t miss this opportunity to question the new strategic leads on tenant participation and learn from our award winning speakers to gain valuable ideas for use in your area. Take away proven engagement strategies tailored to specific and diverse client groups.

Capita's 10th National Rent Arrears conference will take a holistic look at how rent arrears can be reduced through prevention and intervention strategies, working for
sustainable tenancies rather than costly tenant eviction.

Expert speakers will examine how local authorities, ALMOs and RSLs can tackle key rent arrears challenges such as:

• Maximising income
• Working with vulnerable and hard to reach tenants
• Tackling the credit culture
• Establishing effective financial inclusion services
• Effective rent arrears campaigns

Attend this conference to hear practical advice and ideas that can be implemented within your organisation to help reduce rent arrears and improve debt management amongst your tenants.

30 Oct 2008
Conference for Smaller Housing Associations
This is the only event specifically designed for smaller housing associations.
Venue: Immarsat, London

18-19 Nov 2008
IT in Housing Conference and Exhibition
Two days dedicated to dealing with the hottest issues of IT professionals in social housing.
Venue: Olympia Conference Centre, London

6-8 Feb 2009
National Board Members’ Conference and Exhibition
The largest event in the housing calendar dedicated specifically to housing association board members.
Venue: International Convention Centre, Birmingham

18-20 Mar 2009
Housing Finance Conference and Exhibition
Hear from a huge variety of speakers and network with more than 1,000 professionals from within and outside the sector at this conference.
Venue: University of Warwick, Coventry