ALMO to Bid for Schools Contract

A London ALMO hopes to expand into refurbishing and repairing schools. Barnet Homes is in talks with Barnet Council over managing part of the ‘building schools for the future’ programme for the borough’s secondary schools. It would mark the first major expansion for an ALMO beyond providing core housing services. The news emerged as four district councils in Kent launched a public consultation on merging their housing management services into a ‘super-ALMO’. Canterbury, Dover, Shepway and Thanet councils want to set up the East Kent Shared Housing Landlords Services, which would manage the homes of 20,000 tenants. Read the full story on the Inside Housing website.