Date & Time
Thursday 16th May, 2024 | 09:30 - 16:00
Venue
Online
Availability
Available
Purchase
Overview
Local authorities are at the forefront of tackling the often criminal activity of rogue landlords without the necessary resources. With the Renters (Reform) Bill potentially reinforcing legislative measures against rogue landlords and the Government’s commitment to ban no-fault evictions by the next general election, will add an increased emphasis on local authorities to lead the fight against rogue landlords.
Our Effectively Identify and Tackling Rogue Landlords event gives you a better understanding on how you might be able to use the powers granted to you by the Renters (Reform) Bill and tools to scope out rogue landlord activity within your area. Gain proactive approaches to identifying rogue landlords and learn best practice for effectively investigating and prosecuting cases of rogue landlords.
Learn how to utilise and share data to map out potential criminal activity and gain techniques to improve how you enforce and prosecute rogue landlords.
Take back a rogue landlord reduction action plan to use within your organisation.
Learning Outcomes:
Gain an overview of the rogue landlord legislative landscape
Learn how to better identify rogue landlords and build a more comprehensive understanding of their criminal operation within your area
Utilise and share data to identify and tackle rogue landlords
Improve how you enforce and prosecute rogue landlords
Take back a rogue landlord reduction action plan to use within your organisation
Expert Trainer: Paul Oatt
Chartered Health Environmental Practitioner
Paul is a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with 20 years of experience in Environmental Health and Housing Enforcement. He works in local government and has lectured in Environmental Health at Cardiff Metropolitan University and Middlesex University. He now supervises Public Health students at the University of Greenwich.
Paul authored Selective Licensing: The Basis for a Collaborative Approach to Addressing Health Inequalities. The book examines the impact of licensing and regulatory enforcement. He also contributed a chapter on enforcement in Regulating the Privately Rented Housing Sector: Evidence into Practice a book that brings together academics and practicing experts to guide professionals in housing regulation and implementation.
Paul’s next book Private Sector Housing and Health: Evaluating the effectiveness of regulation intended to protect the health of tenants is available for pre-order from Routledge publications on the 29th May and examines the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in the private rented sector and also looks at the proposed changes to be bought about by the Renters (Reform) Bill and the feasibility of their implementation.
Agenda
9:30 am
Login and Accessing the Online Platform
9:45 am
Chair’s Introduction & Clarification of Learning Objectives
Paul Oatt
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
10:00 am
Gain an Overview of Rogue Landlord Legislation
Understand the potential impact of the Renters (Reform) Bill when it comes to prosecuting rogue landlords
Understand the legislations potential implications for future enforcement
Gain an overview of the rogue landlord legislation landscape: such as the Housing and Planning Act 2016
Learn about the new rules around short-term lets
Paul Oatt
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Identifying Rogue Landlords
Gain techniques to identify rogue landlords
Learn how to train staff to detect criminal activity
Receive advice on using innovative ways to identify rogue landlords with limited resources
Paul Oatt
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
12:00 pm
Utilise and Share Data to Reduce Rogue Landlords
Learn how to efficiently collect data on rogue landlords in your area
Use data to identify and crackdown on the criminal networks of rogue landlords
Effectively share data with other organisations to help reduce the number of rogue landlords
Paul Oatt
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Effective Enforcement and Prosecution
Understand and utilise your prosecution powers against rogue landlords
Deploy a more effective landlord licensing scheme to help deter rogue landlords
Review best practice enforcement examples
Adrian Chowns
Head of Safer Housing and Communities, Coventry City Council - CONFIRMED
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Workshop: Develop a Rogue Landlord Reduction Plan
Discuss in groups and with the trainer, how to tackle rogue landlords
Learn how to support private tenants when dealing with rogue landlords
Effectively engage with tenants to help reduce criminal activity
Identify innovative ways to tackle rogue landlords, with a limited workforce
Develop more effective services to help tenants
Design a toolkit to reduce the number of rogue landlords
Create an action plan to identify and reduce rogue landlords
Paul Oatt
Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
4:00 pm
Training Close
Programme subject to change