After speaking at HQN’s annual Housing Management Conference last week on the topic of stigma in social housing, IFF Associate Director, Kate Roberts, shares her reflections on where the sector’s at and what needs to be done to re-engage customers.

Whilst the sector eagerly awaits the outcome from the Department for Education’s higher education policy reform consultation, we provide a quick temperature check on the responses given by mission groups and sector bodies so far across three of the main areas of the consultation: the National Scholarship Scheme, student number controls and foundation year provision.