This training can be adapted to meet the needs of new or experienced staff or the team

as a whole. It can be run as a 1 ‘overview’ training day or as a 2-day course providing more depth for learning and any local problem solving.

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The focus is applying the HRA duties to everyday case situations and takes into account your locally determined processes for managing the flow of work into and through the service.

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The day(s) are practically focused,  looking at the most common and complex casework questions

raised by Councils in the first 2 years of the HRA. At the end of the day(s) your team

will be confident on how to apply the HRA to:

 

•    Applications – re-applications and applications to more than one authority

•    Decision making on owing the prevention and relief duties

•    Personal Housing Plans 

•    How to deliver the assessment of housing and support needs, draw up bespoke PHPs

and reasonable steps following the Haringey and XY case law (August 2019)

 
•    Reviewing PHPs at the prevention, relief and main duty stages

 
•    Performing the prevention and relief duties so there is a successful outcome

•    Understanding when a letter must be issued under the HRA

•    Local Connection - making and receiving referrals

•    When best to make decisions on the main duty, not in priority need and

intentional homelessness Review rights