The Castle Compliance Club is growing and we want you to be part of it!  The Castle Compliance Club is the ideal solution for smaller landlords who need support with compliance management. It combines the power of True Compliance's compliance management system, the flexibility of tailoring your own specific compliance needs and Cordery Castle's consultancy support. Joining the club provides access to expertise, tools, chatting with other club members, and resources to help you manage your compliance streams more effectively. With three levels of support, there will be something to help you meet your compliance responsibilities. The cost [...]

The Castle Compliance Club is the ideal solution  The Castle Compliance Club is the ideal solution for smaller landlords who need support with compliance management. It combines the power of True Compliance's compliance management system, the flexibility of tailoring your own specific compliance needs and Cordery Castle's consultancy support. Joining the club provides access to expertise, tools, chatting with other club members, and resources to help you manage your compliance streams more effectively. With three levels of support, there will be something to help you meet your compliance responsibilities. True Compliance The cost for providing True Compliance's management [...]

A Practical Review to the 'Golden Thread' Question  The up and coming Building Safety and Fire reform legislation will be relying on pin sharp safety intelligence to work effectively. If there is any ambiguity in the intelligence history may be repeated again. With the existing H&S Working Places, CDM, and FRRO to name three, there should be a data structure to take what is required to meet the Building Safety Act/Regime. What will need to be enhanced is the accountability and audit function to show and prove that the data is up to date and regularly checked for [...]

10 Good Reasons Why Leaders Choose Cordery Castle to Support and Develop Their Business We provide confidential improvement support in Compliance, Asset Management and Maintenance operations.  We offer cost-effective consultancy, project management services, and a cloud-based compliance club to housing providers of all sizes. REALLY GOOD REASONS With many years of housing sector experience, the Cordery Castle team are experts in social housing, and are perfectly placed to assist you on your journey. We are positioning ourselves to provide advice, support and assistance to clients around the complexities of the upcoming Fire Reform and Building Safety Acts We [...]

Partnering with the Chartered Association of Building Engineers We are pleased to announce that Cordery Castle has become an affiliate partner to the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE). With senior managers either full chartered members or working towards their charter, it was a natural step to aline with a shared agenda to impart knowledge, raise standards, and develop professional approaches to the new environment post Building Safety Act. We feel there is synergy in both our approaches to the industry and our service provision to clients. For more information on CABE please look here. [...]

High Risk Buildings (HRB's) With the Building Safety Bill/Regime being crafted as we speak I wanted to look at structures. What should constitute a high risk, and how should they be managed? The Bill will mitigate and correct historical statutory direction along with updating current thinking, but how do we mitigate the operational side? Clause 19; within the currently proposed document, defines the meaning of high risk buildings. Currently, the thought is HRB’s will relate to mainly fire risk.   Within the Bill occupied buildings have a different risk factor to new developments. Part of the Bill relates [...]

An all-inclusive & affordable compliance solution for housing providers of all sizes The world has changed, and technology now sits at the centre of most of our days (work and personal).  We communicate by texting, emailing, Whats’apping, ‘Tweeting, we watch videos on demand via Youtube, Netflix, we get Alexa to tell us about the weather and switch on and off lights and we listen to music via Spotify…(you get the picture). Where work is concerned, we record our interactions and assessments, surveys and meetings remotely and digitally via our phones or terminals, but even in 2021 the one thing [...]

Social Housing Repairs – What shape are you in? The Covid pandemic has put every business under significant pressure with challenges beyond anything we have experienced in our lifetimes or even thought possible. It is no wonder we have all felt the strain as events have unfolded and we struggle to make sense of it all at home and at work. It is understandable that we feel anxious and a bit fearful about what the future holds. Before we feel too down about things let us try to put all of this into perspective. Prior to this pandemic [...]

Depending on the size of the property portfolio, and the tenure you’ll have slightly different positions on what is coming. But one thing which will be the same for all Associations and Local Authorities will be the tie between the SHWP and the Building Safety Act. As I’ve discussed in previous articles, the need for top-notch data is critical; without this, no matter what staffing structure you have, the management control will always come to the wrong conclusions. Staffing structure and the Named Person The number of assets the organisation has will influence how the structure will need to work; large [...]