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Audit Commission is recruiting for new Tenant Inspection Advisers. Closing date is 11 December 2009
Thursday, December 03 2009
The Audit Commission are looking to recruit Tenant Inspection Advisers (TIAs) form four regional pools, which our staff draw on periodically to carry out inspection and assessment work. TIAs join their inspection teams specifically to provide the viewpoint of tenants, leaseholders and customers on the quality of housing services delivered by housing providers. They also work on the inspection of benefit services delivered by local authorities.
As a Tenant Inspection Adviser, you’ll team up with Audit Commission inspectors and performance specialists, possibly but not definitely in the area where you live, to take part in housing and benefits inspections. These could be housing association inspections, local authority housing management service inspections, homelessness and housing advice inspections and benefit services inspections.
The role of Tenant Inspection Adviser is an excellent opportunity for you to deepen your awareness of the issues facing tenants in the social housing sector. Expect to make a difference through direct input into the Audit Commission - the country’s independent inspector of social housing and benefits provision and services nationally.
Depending on the part of the country in which you’re based, Audit Commission will pay between £131 and £141 a day when you’re actively working as part of an inspection team carrying out an inspection. They also pay reasonable expenses to cover travel, accommodation costs too.
Recruitment to for Tenant Inspection Advisers’ ‘Pool’ is currently open. If you’re interested in applying, please click on the following link visit
http://www.ac-opinions.co.uk/tenant-inspection-advisers.asp
Please note applications close on 11th December 2009 and assessments take place over a number of days, w/c 18th January 2010.
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MDHA Residents’ Association produce action plan for 2009/10
Wednesday, October 07 2009
MDHA Residents’ Association Executive Committee meet as a group once a month, as well as being part of smaller sub-groups that allow individual members to drill down into areas of service delivery and improvement that interest them most.
They have now produced their Action Plan for 2009/10, please click on the link to read their action plan in full and see what their top priorities are for the year ahead.Action_plan_-_MDHA_RA_09-10.doc
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13 - 19 summer activities programme
Thursday, October 01 2009
The 13-19 summer activities programme was used to raise awareness of the RESPECT agenda among young people living in our neighbourhoods. Encouraging young people to be considerate to the needs of others around them and care about their community. We also wanted to provide activities for young people over the summer holidays.
Young people took part in a poster design competition to design a poster that could be used for advertising the RESPECT agenda to other residents. Discussions took place around young people’s ideas of what is a nice neighbourhood to live in and what respect means to young people. This generated discussions among friends and helped the young people recognise what impact vandalism, graffiti etc. has to the rest of the community they live in. They also designed their own RESPECT t-shirts.
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Gardens In Bloom
MDHA’s Gardens In Bloom competition was judged by members of the MDHA Residents’ Association this July and the winners have now been announced. Look out for the article with photos of all the winners in September’s Streets Ahead. The gardens were very beautiful this year and all the gardeners had worked really hard, making this one of the hardest years to judge!
Winners:
J P Maisey, Phoenix Court, Communal OVERALL WINNER
Gary Wilkins, Greenfields, Communal WINNER
Mrs Smith, Neville Close, Front Garden WINNER
Mrs Margaret Ewers, Lindores Road, Back Garden WINNER
Mrs Fox, South Road, Hanging Baskets/Window Boxes WINNER
Ken Perkins, Arthur Derrick and Anna Gwilliam, Neve House, Communal SECOND
Mrs Julie Curtis, St. Adrian’s Road, Back Garden SCEOND
Mr Palethorpe & Mrs Jones, Brownfields Gardens, Hanging Baskets/Window Boxes SECOND
Maudsley House Residents, Maudsley House, Communal THIRD
Mr Woodridge Elizabeth Close, Back Garden, THIRD
Mr R Hatch, Halifax Road, Front Garden HIGHLY COMMENDED
Mrs Sylvia Haley, Elizabeth Close, Back Garden HIGHLY COMMENDED
Mr Peter Taylor, Whyteladyes Lane, Back Garden HIGHLY COMMENDED
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Book Festival at Evenlode
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Friday 24th July MDHA teamed up with RBWM Library Services to hold a book festival at Evenlode. Despite the bad weather we were able to set up in the three bedroom show home, and were able to offer:
- all residents, plus their friends and family the chance to sign up to the library as new members (10 new members were signed up on the day)
- all children and young people the chance to join up to the “Quest Seekers” Summer Reading Challenge (8 new members were joined up on the day)
- all parents the chance to pick up a Bookstart goody bag for 1 – 2 year olds (15 were given away on the day)
Plus there was a Story Time for the children, lots of arts and crafts to do and the Bookstart Bear (see photos in the General page of the photo gallery – the big blue bear is hard to miss!)
The library said that they felt it was one of their most successful outreach events and we hope to work with them again in the future.
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