Regulator in Resource Crisis

The social housing regulator has admitted it lacks the resources to function effectively and plans to lobby the government to enable it to recruit staff more quickly.  HCA regulation committee members raised concerns about how stretched the regulator has become at its meeting in October. Committee members were ‘worried the regulator did not have enough resources in the right places in order to deliver all the outputs expected of it’. Senior figures at the regulator are privately frustrated that recruitment of staff to new positions must be agreed by the CLG, which can take several months.  Read more on Inside Housing.