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Effectively Identifying and Tackling Rogue Landlords

Date & Time


Tuesday 3rd December, 2024
09:30 AM - 16:00 PM

Venue


Online

CPD Certified

Availability


Available


Overview

With the Labour Government’s Renters’ Rights Bill potentially reinforcing legislative measures against rogue landlords, the Government’s commitment to ban no-fault evictions and extend Awaab’s law to private rented properties, 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’ Rights Bill and other relevant legislation. Acquire 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’ Rights Bill

  • 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 potential application of the Decent Homes Standard to the private rented sector.

 

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

 
 
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