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Department of the Environment: Public Sector Housing Management and Housing for the...

Catalogue reference: AT 145

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AT 145

Records in this series cover mainly housing training. Policy changes in the period resulted in a higher demand on the department to support training as voluntary sector organisations, such as housing co-operatives, were moving to managing housing...

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Reference
AT 145
Title
Department of the Environment: Public Sector Housing Management and Housing for the Vulnerable; Registered Files (HMP series)
Date
1988-1995
Description

Records in this series cover mainly housing training. Policy changes in the period resulted in a higher demand on the department to support training as voluntary sector organisations, such as housing co-operatives, were moving to managing housing estates rather than smaller collections of individual houses and dealing with more varied tenants. Policy on homelessness also changed significantly in this period following a review in which there was Cabinet and prime ministerial interest.

This series contains records which pre-date the creation of Housing Management and Housing for the Vulnerable.

Related material

Local Authority Housing (HSAU) records are held in: AT 96

See also: AT 142

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HMP series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Department of the Environment, Housing Management and Housing for the Vulnerable, 1988-1992
Physical description
18 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

From 2018 Department for Communities and Local Government

Custodial history
Department of Environment, 1988 to 1996.
Accruals
Series is accruing.
Selection and destruction information
Policy files are recommended for retention.
Administrative / biographical background

In 1988 the HMP Division was set up. Titled Public Sector Housing Management and Housing for the Vulnerable, it was more commonly known as Housing Management Policy. Its responsibilities were: the Tenants Charter, including the right to repair, tenant mobility schemes, developments in public housing management, race and housing, special needs housing, homelessness, crime prevention, tenant management co-operatives and housing training and education.

The HMP Division also sponsored the Housing Services Advisory Unit (HSAU), which supplied professional advice (see AT 96).

In 1992 the HMEA Division (Housing Management Estates Action; see AT 142) took over the work of HMP, although they retained the HMP prefix for some time for the homelessness work.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16329352/

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Department of the Environment: Public Sector Housing Management and Housing for the Vulnerable; Registered Files (HMP series)