Group training (5-18 staff): Commercial rate £955; Standard / Concessionary £890 + plus trainer’s expenses + VAT
Course contains
- A better understanding of ASTs including particular issues and features to effectively advise people entering and ending ASTs
- A look at PRPSHs and ASTs after the Localism Act 2011
- Examination of how and when ASTs can be used in the discharge of homelessness duties
- Review of how to achieve homelessness prevention and early housing advice interventions when clients have an AST
- A review of changes to the law in relation to deposits, s21 notices and retaliatory evictions under the Deregulation Act 2015.
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Identify if a tenancy is an AST
- Recognise the key issues in giving advice to the tenant
- Be aware of the procedures landlords and tenants need to follow to terminate ASTs
- Check the validity of Section 21 Notices
- Explain the right to rent rules
- State what help may be available from local authorities for Assured Shorthold Tenants who are facing the loss of accommodation under the Homelessness Reduction Act
- Identify when an AST can be used to discharge homelessness duties.
Suitable for
Local authority housing options, homelessness and homelessness prevention staff, private sector landlord liaison officers, PRPSH/housing association staff, resettlement officers, student accommodation advisers, not-for-profit and private landlords, housing lawyers and advisers. A basic knowledge of security of tenure issues would be helpful but not essential.
Meet the trainer
Rita Parmar has run advanced housing law courses for Shelter Training since 2000. She has specialised in housing law since 1996. Rita worked in Shelter’s Legal Team from 1999 to 2016 as a solicitor and managing solicitor where her caseload included Court of Appeal cases, emergency judicial review applications for homelessness, possession actions and urgent injunctions for unlawful evictions and disrepair. She also had a 6 month attachment to Haringey Women’s Forum giving housing law assistance to women fleeing domestic violence. Additionally, Rita has taught housing law to undergraduates on the LLB course and to graduates on the MA course in legal advice at London Metropolitan University. Her experience in running housing cases led to her co-authoring "Court Procedures and Housing Cases: A Practitioner's Guide".
