PrintAbout the Panel
The Housing Panel meets 3 to 4 times a year and is responsible for all financial management and policy issues that affect local authority housing. In particular, the Panel:
- develops Institute responses to Government, professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and exposure drafts
- develops, promotes and maintains best practice, standards and guidelines
- produces and disseminates relevant advice and material for members and employers in local authority housing
- establishes positive and productive professional relationships with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit bodies, professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's defined areas of responsibility.
Terms of Reference (common across panels)
- Policy formulation and implementation within PFMB approved strategies
and business plans;
- Approval (by the Chair where necessary) of Institute responses to Government,
professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and
exposure drafts;
- Work programme formulation for recommendation to the PFMB, monitoring
of programmes and reporting performance to PFMB;
- The development, promotion and maintenance of best practice, standards
and guidelines and the production and dissemination of relevant advice and
material for members and employers, on issues falling within the Panel's
defined areas of responsibility;
- The establishment of positive and productive professional relationships
with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit
bodies professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's
defined areas of responsibility;
- Joint working with other Panels, as appropriate, on matters of mutual
interest.
- To take a five centres of government perspective on the above items
Quroum Requirements
Panels should have the following quorum requirements:
- A quorum is 50% of the panel members;
- Non-quorate meetings may discuss and formally note matters for future report, but have no executive authority. Urgent decisions, at the Chair's discretion, should be dealt with by correspondence.
(July 2001)
Amended July 2003