Caerphilly County Borough Council has been awarded £5,000 to deliver equalities and discrimination guidance to landlords.
The council’s Equalities and Welsh Language team successfully bid for the funding from the TDS Charitable Foundation.
The funding will allow the council to produce guidance and information to help landlords better understand their tenants.
The information will be aimed at social and private landlords and the council’s housing staff, although the document will also be of use to tenants.
The TDS Charitable Foundation grant also means the council will be able to deliver free Equalities and Welsh Language training to landlords.
Cllr James Pritchard, Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Equalities Champion, said: “I’m pleased that the council has been able to secure this grant to deliver this important piece of work. These funds will give landlords greater access to information and support when dealing with different tenants, or if issues arise between their tenants and neighbours.”
What next, a £5000 grant to produce guidance on how to breath in and out….why not give the £5000 to help the homeless or more deserving charities, and if Caerphilly Council has an Equalities and Language team isn’t this their job that they already get paid to do anyway.
Paul; Caerphilly Council give anything to help the homeless? don`t be daft, there are no votes in it, and that is regardless the Welsh Assembly made grants of in excess of £3,000,000 to Caerphilly Council for dealing with such issues.
As equalities Champion, and a very efficient and popular ward Councillor, perhaps James Pritchard can also tell us where the £3,000,000 plus Welsh Assembly Grant has been spent?, was any of it made available by the Council, specifically, for his work as Equalities Champion? how about spending this money on the citizens of the Borough, helping them with advicate fees against errant landlord, funding a community law office, employing outreach support workers to improve the lot of homeless people,and help with housing and social issues, rather than, on private landlords already expert at lining thier pockets from generous housing benefit payments from the public purse, they dont need training in that so why would the Council feel they need training in some `management aspect of dealing with thier businesses?
Hi Trefor. This money has been secured through a charitable foundation to inform landlords about the rights of tenants to help safeguard against potential bad practices being employed by the landlord. Many landlords I expect haven’t studied equalities legislation and are therefore less informed about the rights the tenant has. This funding will mean that it’s not so easy for landlords to claim ingnorance about the rights of such tenants if or when they’re faced with a challenge. I think its also important that tenants themselves are made more aware of their rights. This is something I’ll look into.