The Housing Corporation has won a battle with the ODPM over allowing housing associations to assess their own performance in meeting efficiency targets.

The £792m in efficiency gains that associations must make by April 2008 will now be able to be measured using a model drawn up by the Chartered Institute of Housing and consultant HouseMark. A briefing paper on this is included as an insert in this week’s edition of Housing Today.

Mark Lupton, policy analyst at the CIH, said: “This is a very important decision as the danger was the corporation would have had to introduce additional regulation with extra forms for associations to fill in.”

As yet there are no details on how councils will measure their efficiency performance when the programme begins on 1 April.

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Housing Today

Postscript

Get the briefing at www.cih.org or www.housemark.co.uk