Allocations: Law and Practice

Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day


This course will look in detail at the legal framework for Local Authority housing allocation schemes as well as Housing Corporation Guidance to Registered Social Landlords on their lettings policies. Delegates will have the opportunity to consider the implications of relevant case law for allocation schemes and decisions made on housing applications.

Course contains

  • What is an allocation?
  • Eligibility: nationality and immigration law
  • Eligibility: unacceptable behaviour serious enough to make a person unsuitable to be a tenant
  • Points schemes and banding schemes
  • Suspension policies
  • Issues for RSLs, ALMOs and LSVT companies.

Learning outcomes

After this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between situations where the Housing Act 1996 framework for allocations does and does not apply
  • Understand and apply the elements of the Housing Act 1996 framework, including eligibility rules
  • Evaluate a variety of types of allocation scheme against legal standards.

Suitable for

Allocations officers and housing managers from Local Authorities and RSLs, homeless officers, lawyers and housing advisers.

Who to contact

Please call 0344 515 1155 or email training@shelter.org.uk


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