The guidance aims to: - support the people who work in housing to factor these risks into family's needs assessments - support families to navigate their legal rights within the current system - advocate for more structural change 🔗 urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/rep...

Families being moved away from their hard fought for support systems and community networks find themselves coping alone, which impacts both children's and parents' mental health ❤️‍🩹 This guidance is designed to raise awareness of the unique risks temporary housing poses to neurodivergent children.

Cramped spaces mean children sharing a bed, sleeping poorly and with no quiet place to regulate emotions Shared kitchen & bathroom facilities mean sensory issues with noise and smells can't be avoided Frequent change means routines that help neurodivergent children feel safe and calm are disrupted

We worked alongside families, lawyers, housing professionals and health experts to develop guidance to support these neurodivergent children and their families. We learned that temporary housing is especially harmful for the physical and mental health of neurodivergent young people.

It's estimated that 1 in 7 children is neurodivergent. With latest data showing over 170,000 young people are now living in temporary housing, that means a minimum of 25,000 children stuck in an insecure, unsuitable home 🏠

The Sentencing Council is running a consultation on guidelines for housing offences: sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications...

The Commons Library is recruiting a housing policy researcher! As ever: highly recommended workplace, great people, interesting work, etc etc. Apply! housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

This is important for boaters: canalrivertrust.org.uk/boating/boat...

I had a dream last night that Australia were 2100-3 at the end of the first day in Perth. I may be just a bit anxious.

So the Renters' Rights Bill completed Parliament today. It has taken some time and I think we've forgotten what an important and really substantial piece of legislation it is. A huge and valuable change is coming (even if we don't know exactly when yet).

💬Any question? Please e-mail us at [email protected] or directly to our PGR reps: 📩 Diksha – [email protected] 📩 Camilo – [email protected]

🗓️ Registration opens 14 November 2025 via the SLSA website. Places are limited to 50 delegates (first-come basis). The conference is free to attend i.e. the SLSA funds the participation (accommodation for one night, conference meals) but attendees are responsible for their own travel costs.

🚨 Exciting news! The SLSA Postgraduate Conference 2026 will take place at Cardiff University 🏛️ on 8–9 January 2026. A space for early-stage PhD researchers to connect, share ideas & grow together 🌱 👇 Details in the comments section! #SLSA #PhD #SocioLegal

Interested to know whether the person who designed the bike rack on GWR trains (presumably others) had actually ever ridden or owned a bike #nightmare @gwr.com

This anon piece is as good as people are saying, but I'll summarise here for those of you interested in Higher Education but with no time: *Universities are not in the public sector *Govts are a minority funder, and matter less and less. (1/4) profserious.substack.com/p/understand...

20mph is a proven success that paid for it's implementation inside a year with reduced fatalities and injuries. We have many 20mph zones in England already. Time to make it the default. Ideally reduce all speed limits by 10mph, with the possible exception of motorways.

@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere. It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.

A quick post on the announcement of the phase 1 Awaab’s Law regulations on social landlords’ duties on damp and mould, with timescales for action - from 1 October 2025, electrical safety and a ‘call for evidence’ into housing conditions claims farmers practices. nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/06/awaa...

📢 Important news for the social housing today with the first phase of Awaab's Law and electrical safety regulations laid before parliament Here's a thread with our reaction and the links you need to find out more ⬇️🧵(1/5)

And the consultation response www.gov.uk/government/c...

Draft guidance for Awaab’s Law www.gov.uk/government/p...

New changes to remove local connection rules for young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse to access social housing. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Todays rental price statistics show the rate at which rents in the private rented sector have been increasing in recent years is out of control. Since Jan2020 rents have shot up by £300 a month, up 31%, over 2.5x the rate of growth in the preceding 5 years (12% growth)

Am really struck by the way enforcement is defined in the Renters' Rights Bill as either imposing a financial penalty or instituted criminal proceedings, so that informal means of enforcement won't be enough to satisfy the new duty to enforce. Will be interesting to watch how it plays out!

Just going to leave this here ... @richardmoorhead.bsky.social you too?

Some themes from second session - paper by Tom Guiney and Harry Annison. Added to methodological questions raised in other two papers and ideas from agnotology and Relational legal consciousness #whatsnottolike

At the @clscardiff.bsky.social workshop on Dysfunctional Government - crisis, scandal, tragedy, emergency. First session on housing crisis, now into second session. Brilliant, exciting, innovative ways of thinking interdisciplinarily.

My blog on yesterday’s EU Court judgment outlawing “commercial” selling of EU citizenship verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-free-... at @verfassungsblog.de

Finally, a potential use for Quennell v Maltby? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My fab colleague @danielwincott.bsky.social discussing policy studies for socio-legal studies to provide a cri de coeur at the end of a brilliant #slsa2025 #newproject #twopapersnotone

Just leaving these beauties here.

🚨 New on Substack: Bristol’s Interwar Council Housing: John Betjeman described 'a surprising beauty showing off in the evening sunlight; and vistas of trees and fields and pleasant cottages' in the Sea Mills estate. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/bristols-i...

I'm rubbish at promoting the Welsh housing law and policy blog. But, if you're interested in ombuds, here's one on the PSOW blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-... And new today, on the crisis in temporary accommodation: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

Cat feeling the same way as me about data analysis today.

We have a vacancy at Resolution Foundation for someone to lead our housing policy work. £55 - £68k, office based in Westminster. Closing date: 08:59am on 17 April 2025 (1/2)

Unis now have the perverse incentive to get you publishing loads of stuff, then sack you so they don't have to pay you, then get cash for you in 2029 that will last until 2037! Also, there's no point hiring you, cos your past work doesn't move with you. (2/2) englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

NEW from me in the FT... The existential crisis of Britain's universities has now reached the point of no return. How did all go so wrong? I've tried to explain: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

Two blog posts on the Wales Housing Law and Policy pages today: Gypsy and Traveller consultation & the PSOW: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-... And Three tidbits, including the goss that the Court of Appeal has given permission to bring the appeal in Coastal 1: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

🚨 New on Substack. Before and after World War One, Swansea was in the vanguard of housing reform. My updated post on the borough's early council housing: open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

Thought I would read the Badenoch speech to ARC and came across this comment: "A country cannot be successful if its people and its intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds that is happening in higher education." Wow.

This is serious ...

Two new blogs on the Welsh housing law and policy blog. The first is about the LHA freeze and it's effects in Wales: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-... The second is about the ongoing rumblings following Coastal (h/t @justinbates.bsky.social) blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

New on the Welsh housing law and policy blog, a post about student halls of residence, which appear to remain big business at a time when Universities are struggling. Thinking about the rugby this weekend and came up with this dramatic title blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

New Welsh Housing Law and Policy blog posts today, including about poverty, housing, and help to stay (about which, lots of questions) blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-... And crossreferencing to NL and HSA and WHQ blogs of note blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

Yikes… forget being human(e), you’re just a risky figure (kind of thing) - read this if you’re wondering how the private rented sector is shaping up www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's crazy that this & previous governments (rightly) constantly hymn 'Britain's world-class universities' and (rightly) consistently identify them as central to national strategy, and yet pursue policies which are eroding, if not destroying, an asset that other countries would give anything to have

In today's Welsh Housing Law and Policy blog, I reflect on reasons for the lack of housing case law in Wales. Not a call for more law, but raising questions for discussion/research. Do get in touch if you have other ideas. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

Forgot to post yesterday about the new blog entry - the plenary debate about the Local Gov and Housing Committee's report on the PRS: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-...

The death of Christopher Hood, a fine scholar and a lovely man, is a huge loss to academia. He was consistently modest, and helpful to both younger scholars (as I once was) and to the civil service. We shall miss him. blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

Our Law Clinic is recruiting a PT Administrator to work on its housing cases. Salary Range: £26,642 (pro rata) FTE: 0.2 (7 hours/week) Contract Type: Fixed Term until 30 January 2028 Closing Date: 19 January 2025 strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...