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Stronger Together on Welfare Reform
25 September 2013
Kim Gallagher & Linda Beel
Coast & Country Tenant Panel
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Transforming tenant involvement
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Time for change
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What’s working
Clear roles and responsibility
• Leaders – The Board
• Shapers – The Tenant Panel
• Evaluators – The Scrutiny Panel
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• Code of conduct
• Action Plan
• Terms of Reference
• Corporate Planning
• Company target setting
• Leadership Team meetings
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Transformed tenant involvement
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Tenants lead the way
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Tenants Talking to Tenants
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Me and My Home
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Shaping Development
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Working with Others
• Go on Boro!
• Community Learning Champions
• Workers Education Authority
• Union Learn
• Other housing providers
• Womens’ Centre
• NEP
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Impact on North East
• Estimated £380m loss
• ‘Cumulative loss could be £940m in 14-15
C Beatty and S Fothergill, Hitting the poorest places hardest: the local and regional impact of welfare reform, CRESR, 2013
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NE -Impact on disabled
• Estimated 70,000 affected by changes to ESA
• Loss of £175m
• Estimated 33,000 affected by change from DLA to PIP
• Loss of £128m
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The media
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Strivers
Skivers
Hard working tax payers
Welfare scroungers
Sanctions
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Employment
Unemployed Nov 12 – Jan 13
•National figure 7.9%
•North East 10.1%
•Redcar & Cleveland 12.2%
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Why we needed to act!
• Impact on Tenants
• Impact on landlord
So we
• Talked to our Chief Executive
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Tenants Together
Together we can make a difference
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The Campaign Launch
• 72 tenant representatives, from
• 25 housing providers, representing
• 195,000 tenants
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The Petition
Stop Bedroom Tax!
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Tenants Together
Cutting the housing benefit of social housing tenants with ‘spare’ bedrooms will hit the poor, the vulnerable and the disabled hardest
Coast & Country’s Tenant Panel is harnessing the voice and power of 100,000 social housing tenants to launch a mass protest to stop Bedroom Tax.
Join us in our campaign and help get our voice heard in Parliament.
Together we can make a difference!
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Outcomes
• The Petition – over 4,000 names so far
• Local councillors lobbying for change
• Tenants Working Together Facebook
• Newsletters
• Letters to MPs
• Local MP to raise the issues at the Lib-Dem Conference
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Lib-Dem Conference
The conference ‘Condemns the bedroom tax for ‘discriminating against the most vulnerable in society
They also said:
‘There is something going wrong when standards of living go forward for battery hens, but backwards for people’
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Following on …
• Radio interviews
• TV interviews
• Newspaper articles
• Invited to other housing associations
• Speaking at rallies
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• Revised allocations policy regarding bedroom tax arrears
• Supporting Credit Unions
• Local Food bank
• Personal credit options including
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Developing Digital Inclusion
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Questions
• What is your landlord doing about Welfare Reform?
• What are you doing as tenant representatives?
• What do you think is the way forward?
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What you can do
Talk to:
•your Chief Executive!
•other involved tenants
•your M. P.
•Local councillors
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Consequences
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