COMMITTEES, MEMBERS & OUR HOUSING ESTATES There are currently 100 Common Councillors and 25 Aldermen serving as elected representatives, representing public interest and informing how the City of London Corporation should carry out its various activities. Housing Management and Almshouses Sub (Community and Children’s Services) Committee Our decision-making arrangements operate on a committee-based system of elected Members appointed annually to serve on our many committees and sub committees. These committees meet regularly throughout the year. Most of the decisions directly affecting our Housing Estates, situated in six London boroughs are made at quarterly meetings of the Housing Management and Almshouses Sub (Community and Children’s Services) Committee The Housing Management and Almshouses SubCommittee is responsible for Social Housing (i.e. the management of the property owned by the City of London Corporation under the Housing Revenue Account and the City Fund). Additional responsibility is also for the management of the City of London Almshouses, a registered charity. Unlike councillors elsewhere, in the City being a member is purely voluntary and is not paid. The committee is comprised of eight Members, elected by the Community & Children’s Services Committee. The Committee is responsible for: • discharging the City of London Corporation’s function in respect of the management of its existing social housing stock • approving schemes affecting the City’s existing social housing and proposed stock • approving policies in relation to the management of housing services to tenants and leaseholders in City estates and review them as necessary • the management of the City of London Almshouses in accordance with the charity’s governing instruments • advising the Community & Children’s Services Committee on:○ the general performance of the Social Housing Service and the Almshouses; and ○ its recommendations concerning the Allocation Scheme in the City’s Housing Registration process.
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Members (Councillors) In addition to sitting on Committees, each year the Allocated Members Scheme matches Members from the Community & Children’s Services Committee to each of the City’s social housing estates. The City Corporation’s composition is different to other local authorities in that the majority of the elected councillors are not elected on a party political basis and are therefore independent. There are eight Allocated Member positions, with some covering more than one small estates. It is possible for more than one Members to share the Allocated Member role on a large estate if they wish to do so. The purpose of the Allocated Member scheme is to: • Give residents and staff a named Member to ‘champion’ their estate • Allow Members to take an interest in the estate, its residents and staff • Develop a group of members with housing knowledge & experience to contribute to the Community & Children’s Service Committee. If an individual raises an issue with an Allocates Member, the Member will either • give the resident details of the appropriate local manager so that they can contact them, or • bring the matter to the attention of the local manager and ask them to contact the resident directly to seek to resolve the issue.
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