Our recordings cover various topics, from practical housing management and high-level policy discussions to events designed to support your professional development. All recordings are free for all CIH members, log in and listen/watch from anywhere.
Housing and Dementia
Watch this recording of our Housing and Dementia event to hear about the practical steps you can take in your organisation to support people to live well with dementia.
Expert speakers from across the housing sector and third sector explore a variety of topics including training and awareness for housing staff, dementia friendly design, developing and implementing a dementia strategy, and the role of technology in supporting people to live safely and independently.
Why watch?
- Learn about dementia and how it affects people in different ways
- Challenge some common misconceptions about dementia
- Hear practical tips and suggestions about how your organisation can help people to live well with dementia.
The Role of the Housing Officer
Watch this this Housing Management masterclass to hear from a diverse panel of speakers with experience of the housing officer role, with tenant perspectives on what a good service looks like to them
This session will explore the true impact of the cost of living in more depth and will highlight the work happening across both the housing and charity sector to help alleviate the pressures.
Why watch?
- Take away helpful practical measures of how we can do better to increase professionalism?
- Learn about the skills, values, behaviours, and knowledge that is required of a housing officer
- Explore more about what a housing officer role looks like in a modern housing organisation.
Building safety regulation changes
A video message from Matthew Scott CIH policy and practice officer highlighting two key ‘what you need to know’ guides that are available exclusively to CIH members.
Download and bookmark the what you need to know guides
Tackling the Cost of Living Crisis in Ireland
Watch this Housing Management masterclass to hear from housing providers and organisations who are working to support households across Ireland during the cost of living crisis.
This session will explore the true impact of the cost of living in more depth and will highlight the work happening across both the housing and charity sector to help alleviate the pressures.
Why watch?
- Take away helpful practical measures to help those most in need
- Learn about the growing concerns for the most vulnerable households.
Investing in the Future: Reforming the Welfare System
Watch this session to hear from Grand Union Housing Group, CIH and Trussell Trust and explore the impact of welfare reform and the changes needed to ensure people receive appropriate support.
The session will look at the changes needed, based on the principles of adequacy, accessibility, fairness, flexibility and collaboration and explore how we can work together to influence policy development.
Why watch?
- Learn about the changes needed, based on the principles of adequacy, accessibility, fairness, flexibility and collaboration
- A great opportunity to think about how you can help influence future manifesto development.
Building Better Board - In my Shoes with Lara Oyedele
Advocating racial and ethnic diversity in housing boardrooms.
This recording is particularly relevant to board chairs, board members and those working in governance-related positions.
In my shoes is a CIH presidential campaign, by Lara Oyedele, that seeks to raise awareness of the importance of racial diversity in the housing sector, drawing on Lara’s lived experience of the housing sector and racial adversity.
Boardrooms across the sector are not representative of the organisations or communities that they serve, join Lara to hear what we can do to challenge the sector, and ourselves in order to effect change.
Why watch?
- Hear delegates participate in the conversation with our expert speaker - we encourage delegates to challenge, debate and share their ideas and insights.
- Listen to delegates communicating with fellow board members and governance professionals to discover new ideas to guide your organisation.
Sustaining Tenancies - The Value of Pre-tenancy Engagement
Watch this Housing Management masterclass to hear practical examples from housing providers who have implemented new measures to ensure every individual they work with gets all the support they need to sustain their tenancy.
This session will explore how effective pre-tenancy engagement can support tenants to thrive and sustain tenancies.
Why watch?
- Learn from case studies showcasing strong practice-based approaches to support tenants
- Develop a clearer understanding of your obligations, and how to create the environment for tenants communities to thrive
- Understand the importance of training and support for staff, to help them work with tenants to sustain tenancies
- Explore how to embed this as a strategic approach to sustainable tenancies and communities
- Learn how this practice can break down recurring cycles of homelessness.
Housing Brighton 2023: Delivering the Better Social Housing Review
Helen Baker, chair of the Better Social Housing Review shares more about the recommendations set forth by the panel and what's next for housing.
Housing Brighton 2023: Developing and maintaining homes fit for the future
The new Future Homes Standard should ensure that all new homes built from 2025 will produce 75-80 per cent less carbon emissions than homes delivered under current regulations. The new homes we build also need to meet building safety standards and form part of well-designed neighbourhoods which will provide good places to live for decades to come. Watch back our interview with CIH's Sarah Davis to discover more from this session at Housing Brighton.
Housing Brighton 2023: Delivering successful retrofit projects
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) was set up to enhance the energy efficiency of socially rented homes. And with the announcement of successful SHDF Wave 2 bids, planning for project delivery across the country is now underway. Following this workshop, we caught up with CIH's Dr Matthew Scott to explore practical advice for successful delivery and take a look at the best practices including excellence in resident involvement and how best to measure success.
