14 October 2021
We have launched the consultation on our Corporate Plan for 2022-25 setting out ambitious plans for the next three years.
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7 October 2021
The Housing Ombudsman has made two findings of severe maladministration following an investigation into Inquilab Housing Association’s failure to respond to a resident’s requests to deal with damp and mould in her home and for its subsequent poor complaint handling.
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29 September 2021
The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration for Golding Homes complaint handling. It followed a resident’s report of repairs, that she repeatedly made over a period of seven years from 2012 to early 2019.
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22 September 2021
The Housing Ombudsman has appointed a new Advisory Board that takes effect from 1 October 2021
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1 September 2021
The Housing Ombudsman’s latest Insight report covering April to June 2021 shows a 21% increase in the volume of enquiries and complaints received compared to the previous quarter.
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24 August 2021
Our online casebook provides a rich source of learning for the sector as well as demonstrating the difference complaints can make for individual residents.
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27 July 2021
Issues ranging from gas safety, repairs and anti-social behaviour are among the latest batch of decisions to be published.
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6 July 2021
The Housing Ombudsman issued 23 complaint handling failure orders between April to June 2021, highlighting issues with progressing complaints and meeting the Ombudsman’s standards on complaint handling
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29 June 2021
We have published details of more than 350 individual decisions since March 2021 when we started publishing reports on all cases investigated.
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23 June 2021
We have published our latest Insight report covering January to March 2021. It shows a significant increase in the number of enquiries and complaints received compared to the same quarter in 2020, going up by 73%.
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