Case Study

Introduction

Before I dive into the Case Study, I think it best to start with a few simple questions regarding my purpose and the expected outcome of the project. More than anything I want to make a document that is readable and easily understood. For this purpose I chose a digital format as this can assist the interested party to successfully navigate a quite complex tale. The traditional format of text on paper with facts and allegations listed sequentially, is often totally opaque to the majority of people. Reading Case Studies is not something one might consider enjoyable, but rather an onerous task, often conducted out of paid working hours. Aside from administrators and legal eagles who eat documents for breakfast, anyone with a single disabilty, listed later - would struggle and may not succeed in comprehending the information, which hopefully is being communicated.

I didn't want it to be dry and boring tales of suffering, as Case Studies can be. Imagine investigating something like Grenfell, just one recent tradgedy which, I believe could have been "not a thing", if only the regulators had done their job properly. In all these bodies the correct procedures are documented. Besides for referal in times of need, should form the basis of staff training material.

With this in mind, I follow the introduction with the questions.

Questions

  1. What is the Case Study About ?
  2. Why is the Case Study Necessary ?
  3. Who has the Case Study been produced for ?
  4. Is there a specific objective, or intended outcome ?
  5. What do I hope to achieve by producing the Case Study and making it public ?

Answers

  1. The Social Housing Crisis: (Ineffective Provision, Regulation and Oversight)
  2. Serious deficiencies exist nationally as Regulators fail to regulate serious and repeated Public Service Equality Breaches.
  3. The Social Housing sector in general. It is hoped that information disclosed in the Case Study will be to the benefit both landlords and tenants, no matter how distasteful the evidence is. In the aim of improving social housing services and in future being able to avoid such dreadful experiences all around, Local Authorities and their Tenant Services Contractors, ALMO’s etc. as well as regulatory bodies will find the Case Study useful. Also included in the target group the regulatory bodies, the Housing Ombudsman Service, the Information Commissioners Office, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, the Social Housing Regulator, Social Services, especially Neurodivergent Adult Care and Local Authority Housing Benefit Teams.
  4. In order to improve the current situation and make Social Housing Provision better, it’s Management, it’s Regulation and any authority which provides Oversight of Public Service Equality Duty. This applies particularly to any person or organisation that is interested in considering the actual legality of the actions being disclosed in the Case Study where, these responsibilities and liabilities in Law have been totally ignored, repeatedly.
  5. I wish to produce an authoritative document of reference. One which is honest and to the point, whilst protecting all individuals referred to. Whilst observing failures and omissions within various departments and bodies, it has been enlightening to discover exactly how social housing tenants along with the UK Tax payers, are constantly being shafted when it comes to being treated equally and fairly in the Civil Courts, Families Division, Bradford. I hope to provide positive suggestions for improving what on the surface appears to be a perfectly good system of provision, management and regulation. Unfortunately and very sadly, it fails to achieve the intended purposes of fairness and equality for some of the most vulnerable people.

Outcome

The Case Study will achieve the intended outcome by highlighting instances of gross failure and professional negligence within the agencies and bodies who, in UK Law are designated as official providers of regulatory oversight. This applies as well to those agencies and bodies who are given licence and funding to provide support to vulnerable people, in order to help them to obtain and or maintain a home within social housing in the UK.