Scotland Housing Awards

Aico, an Ei Company, are the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high quality alarms, developed and manufactured in Ireland. All Aico alarms meet UK standards and offer a variety of sensor types to guarantee protection for every home, the cornerstone of which is delivering education, quality, service and innovation. In 2020, Aico expanded their Connected Home offering with the acquisition of leading Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, HomeLINK. HomeLINK are a multi-award-winning high-tech software team within Aico that leverage cutting edge home integration and analytic technologies to address the needs of social landlords and their residents.

At Places for People Scotland we put people first. This means that we put customers, colleagues and clients at the heart of everything we do.

We're one of Scotland's leading housing associations and we own and manage 8,000 homes and work with over 8,000 customers. As a member of Places for People, we're one of the United Kingdom's largest property development and management organisations.

We operate creatively and collaboratively across Scotland and our priorities are to:

• create more affordable housing
• improve the quality of the assets we own
• improve the services we provide
• increase the positive difference we make in communities
• strengthen our people and culture.

The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) is the largest and only dedicated national organisation representing landlords and letting agents throughout Scotland.

We support and represent our members’ interests by providing resources and assistance and delivering lobbying and campaigning work.  Letting agents are directly represented by our Council of Letting Agents (the CLA).

Whatever scale our members operate on, from those renting out a single property to managers of the largest agency portfolios, we are there to help them. 

SAL believes in the highest standards for the private rented sector, and as part of this commitment, we are delighted to sponsor the CIH “Excellence in the Private Sector” award once again.

Queens Cross Housing Association is one of Scotland’s larger housing associations, providing around 4,500 homes to people living in northwest Glasgow.

As a community organisation, we also focus on work that creates greater life opportunities for local residents, developing greener spaces and improving community wellbeing. We support our young people through a range of services and are committed to creating training, employment and apprenticeship opportunities. 

Queens Cross is a welcoming and diverse community with one of the fastest growing populations in Glasgow. Our new business plan to 2025 sets out our vision to build over 600 new homes, create some of the greenest neighbourhoods in the city and to support young people and families out of poverty.

We’re not afraid to be bold and innovative and, with climate change arguably the biggest challenge for everyone, we are working with our city and national partners to find more ways to be more energy efficient while keeping money in people’s pockets.

Queens Cross has been transforming the area for over 40 years, uncovering its potential to be one of the best places to live and to work in Glasgow.

The Excellence in Scrutiny award is sponsored by the Scottish Government’s Fuel Poverty and Housing Standards Unit. As scrutiny activity has continued to evolve in Scotland, it is important to recognise what it is achieving and the extent to which scrutiny is being embedded within social landlord’s performance monitoring arrangements and improvement activities.

We are keen that landlords and tenants work collaboratively together to demonstrate how systematic tenant scrutiny across all their activities is improving outcomes and services for tenants and other service users. This has never been so important than during the last 18 months with the impact of the covid-19 pandemic. Tenant scrutiny can lead to positive change, in service improvements, value for money and support landlords to meet the standards and outcomes in the Scottish Social Housing Charter. 

Fife Council’s Housing Services is landlord to 30,000 houses in the kingdom and we deal with over 4,500 housing advice requests and assess almost 2,500 homelessness applications each year.  Our Fife Housing Register Partnership covers close to 98% of the housing stock in the area receiving around 600 applications per month.  Our Public Social Partnership provides early intervention, prevention and sustainment services to vulnerable households.

We are continually improving the services that we provide to our customers, and our Housing Training Academy is now delivering programmes for leadership, mentoring, training, further education and apprenticeships.  The Chartered Institute of Housing have agreed a corporate partnership to raise the profile of the Council as a progressive, impactful social landlord, to support the ongoing professional development and talent management of staff and to highlight the institute as the professional body of choice for all housing practitioners. Some of the Council’s recent successes include:

• Housing Services with Building Services and Business Support teams were crowned ‘Housing Team of the Year’ at a special ‘virtual’ awards ceremony at the CIH Scotland Housing Awards in 2021.

• In 2021, our colleague Joanne Saurin won the Award of ‘Outstanding Individual’ at the 10^th Scottish Empty Homes Award, a tremendous accolade for her hard work and commitment in returning vacant property back into housing use.
• We have received national recognition through our ‘WHIR’ project to improve housing services for people experiencing domestic abuse. We engaged service users in the redesign of services and are now providing flexible support to help people affected by domestic abuse to retain their settled accommodation.  We have also invested in training with Shelter to improve staff awareness of the issues. 

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) is Scotland’s largest social landlord with around 43,000 affordable homes. It is proud to be part of Wheatley, Scotland’s leading housing, care and property-management group.

ALACHO is the representative organisation for senior housing and homelessness professionals working in Scotland’s Councils and Health and Social Care Partnerships.

Our purpose is to provide impartial advice and comment to support the development of legislation, policy and practice in housing and homelessness nationally and locally and to promote best practice and improved outcomes from our housing at all levels. 

To achieve this, we will work with our members, tenants and service users, COSLA and the Scottish Government, the CIH, registered social landlords and other organisations in the statutory and voluntary sector to:

In all our work we will seek to develop a human rights-based approach that supports the delivery of the public sector equalities duty, reduces inequality and challenges discrimination in all areas of service delivery. 

ALACHO is a non-party political organisation, we recognise and respect the political leadership in local government, the role of COSLA as the representative voice of Scottish local Authorities and of tenants’ organisations in representing the views and interests of tenants.  In all our work we will seek to reflect the diversity of local conditions and housing systems and the varying needs of all Scotland’s communities.

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