Housing Finance Update
Event summary
One year into the new government, and we await a key moment on 11 June with the first Comprehensive Spending Review from the new government team. The announcements within the settlement have the potential to affect both the “big picture” issues for the delivery of affordable housing across local authorities and housing associations, but also some key matters of detail that housing finance professionals will need to get to grips with.
Date
08 July 2025
Starts: 10:00
Ends: 16:00
Location
online
Standard price
£375.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
£250.00 excl VAT
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About this event
Join us for our annual Housing Finance Update webinar, this year timed to take place in the post-Spending Review period when we have had a few days to take stock of the announcements.
We’re expecting key points to be raised around social housing rents, the future of the Right to Buy, signposting to a new national Housing Strategy (For the first time) as well as key points around asset management of the existing stock.
We’ll cover all of that as well as review the various technical and accounting updates ready for the budget and business planning round this autumn.
Who should attend?
- Senior housing finance professionals
- Managers in housing departments and those responsible for enabling the building of more homes and upgrading and retrofitting of existing stock
How will you benefit from attending?
This event will:
- Provide a general update on issues affecting housing and the wider public sector
- Provide a housing policy, technical, finance and accounting update, with a primary focus on the fallout from the 11 June Spending Review
- Outline the implications of these changes for housing authorities and how they impact on the business planning process and expectations
Topics
- Accounting
- / Financial reporting
- / Housing
- / Local government
Speaker - David Ellis, FAN Advisor, CIPFA
David joined CIPFA in July 2012 as a FAN advisor, after a 30 year career in local government. He spent several years as chief accountant with key responsibilities for the statement of accounts.
David has an extensive technical knowledge and practical understanding of local authority financial statements and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based Code of Practice, and uses that wealth of knowledge and experience to provide support and guidance to practitioners across local government in his established role as FAN advisor. David qualified with CIPFA back in 1989 and uses his passion for understanding the evolving technical aspects of local authority accounting to provide support to finance staff at a practical level. As the pressures on local government funding and services continue to bite, CIPFA's FAN support is becoming an ever-important lifeline for busy practitioners in helping them prepare for and manage the changes in financial reporting and accounting required to comply with the code of practice.
Email: david.ellis@cipfa.org
Tel: 07879 665950
Speaker - Steve Partridge, Director, Savills Housing Consultancy
Steve Partridge, CPFA, is a director at Savills Housing Consultancy. Steve is a senior leader and highly regarded national expert in housing finance with over 25 years’ experience in the public and private sectors of business planning, investment appraisal, financing and the development of new homes. Steve specialises in working with housing providers to build their financial capacity, to assess options for, and then implement the delivery of new and better housing.