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Tenant involvement

We’re committed to making sure that tenants have a say in the decisions that affect them, their homes, and the areas they live in. We want to empower tenants to get involved at a level that suits them. We do this by offering a range of opportunities for tenants to get involved and by supporting tenants' and residents' groups.

Ways you can get involved

Calling all Caerphilly Homes tenants. During these unusual times we are still committed to involving you in developing and shaping future Housing services. Would you like to share your views so that we can ensure that tenants remain at the heart of everything we do? You won’t even have to leave your home to do it!

Interested? Just click the link below to register. As a small thank you for registering you will automatically be entered into a prize draw to win £25 in online shopping vouchers.
Get involved

Due to Covid-19 our activties are changing. We're looking at new ways to involve tenants and how we may be able to continue with our activities in a different way.

Housing Improvement Partnership (HIP) - The HIP is made up of tenants who want to work with us to improve housing services. No specialist skills are needed. All we need is your knowledge and experience as a Caerphilly Homes tenant. If you can spare a few hours a month for 6 months of the year then please get in touch. All reasonable expenses will be paid.
Armchair reviewers - Armchair Reviewers are tenants who give us feedback on the Caerphilly Homes newsletter and other ways we communicate with tenants all from their comfort of their own homes! Every time an Armchair Reviewer gives us feedback they’re entered into a prize draw to win a £25 high street shopping voucher! Armchair Reviewers pdf
Tenant Information Exchange (TIE) - This is an informal virtual session where tenants can find out more about how Caerphilly Homes and tenants are working together to improve housing services. It’s also a good opportunity to meet and chat with other tenants. Contact us to find out when the next TIE is being held.
Caerphilly Homes Task Group - The Task Group has been meeting since September 2012 and considers reports about the housing service and Welsh Housing Quality Standard improvement programme. This includes monitoring all the promises made to tenants during the ballot on stock transfer, receiving information about the operation of the day-to-day housing service and making recommendations to change or improve services. The Task Group has places for seven tenant members and the places are allocated to different areas to ensure representation from all parts of the county borough.
Repairs and Improvements Group - A working group of tenants and officers working together to improve repairs and improvements for all tenants. They look closely at the Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) improvement programme and the response repairs service. When WHQS has been achieved, the group will have finished its task. This has been delayed, due to Covid-19, but a final update will be provided to the Group when WHQS has been achieved.

To find out more about how you can get involved contact Tenant and Community Involvement Team.

Training

So, you’ve decided you’d like to get involved but not sure you have the experience or skills to do it? Well don’t worry! We can offer free training sessions to support you and help you be involved with Caerphilly Homes, whilst also building your skills. Attending training courses will not only increase your ability to make a real difference, but may increase your chances of employment and boost your confidence too.

Training guide (PDF)

Expenses and travelling

We reimburse reasonable expenses such as care costs please get in touch with the team if there is anything that would prevent you from getting involved (just thinking if we do stuff remotely for the time being, the only costs would be child care/ carers or cost of installing something on their equipment to participate). If at a future time, when it is safe to do so, you need to travel to participate, we would provide transport or reimburse your travel costs.

Tenant Participation Strategy

Our strategic purpose is to have ‘tenant driven, continually improving services’. Our strategy sets out how we aim to achieve this by providing a range of opportunities for tenants to actively engage with us, giving their views and helping us continually improve services.

The team are currently working on the strategy for 2020 - 2023.