More funding needed to enforce no-fault evictions ban, warn local authorities
Councils will need more staff and funding to enforce the ban on no-fault evictions in England effectively, local authorities have warned.
"New regulation is important, and we welcome it, but we need to make sure we have the right financial package to be able to enforce and deliver it," he told the BBC. She is the only environmental health officer at her council responsible for housing, supported by a team of seven other staff. Henry Dawson, a member of the organisation's housing advisory panel, said there was a "desperate shortage" of environmental health officers and tenancy relations officers."If we're about to bring in a whole raft of new responsibilities for local authorities, we need to bring in more staffing to support that and also a sustainable model for funding of new staff."
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