Dealing with Harassment and Illegal Eviction Course
Overview.
Regulation of the Private Rented Sector is moving rapidly up the agenda for government plans to increase efficient activities of local authorities.
Clause 58 of the Renter’s Reform Bill when it is enacted will place a duty of local authorities to investigate and enforce a range of housing breaches, including the protection from Eviction Act 1977, which only provides the power for councils to take action. Clause 58 will be a landmark change for councils across England, requiring a reinvigoration of skills and knowledge that have been declining in the past 7 years.
We are so pleased to offer this course which has been created and delivered by a Tenancy relations Officer with 33 years’ experience in dealing with harassment and illegal eviction.
Ben has over 20 years exclusively training local authority frontline housing services staff, is unique and timely. One has been commissioned by Legal Action Group Publications to write the UKs first book on dealing with harassment and illegal eviction for frontline workers. Due to be published early in 2024
Modules Covered
- The foundations of security of tenure
- The rights of sub-tenants explained
- Clarifying the requirements for a landlord’s resident status
- Harassment defined as both a civil and criminal offence
- Illegal eviction defined as both a civil and criminal offence:
- Civil routes to redress available to tenants
- Criminal routes to redress available to local authority:
- Practical solutions to resolve problems:
- Longer term sanctions:
About the course:
A full training manual will be provided that acts more as a resource/reference book and will contain much more information than we will be able to cover on the day but it us useful to have.
This course also comes with a range of toolkits and standard letter templates that enable the officer to follow a defined process in dealing with everything from threatened illegal evictions, disconnection of utilities and seizing of a tenant’s possessions
About the trainer:
Ben Reeve Lewis became a Tenancy Relations Officer on Feb 2nd 1990 and a trainer of the subject since 2000. He trains frontline housing staff exclusively and having spent an entire career in this specialist field is probably the most experienced person in the UK. He co-founded Safer Renting in 2015 and is now the Strategy Manager for a team of 14 supplying a TRO service to 13 London boroughs and is visiting lecturer in housing law for Middlesex University, so he has the legal knowledge and a lifetime’s experience in the practical application for local authority officers in a multi-disciplinary framework.
Dates and Costs
The course will be held online on 27th March 2024
Booking
Please email Jack.Taylor@derby.gov.uk or call 01332 642647
