Section: ALMOs
New Report - 'ALMO Governance: The Inside Track'
Posted 07.10.16
Arms-Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) now manage over 500,000 homes in England, nearly a third of all council housing. There are 37 ALMOs operating in 40 local authorities who deliver a range of housing services and play a key role in improving the quality of life in some of the most challenging towns and cities across the country.
The National Federation of ALMOs is the umbrella trade body that represents all ALMOs across England. In order to continue to promote good practice, it carried out a survey in August 2016 to identify the nature of members' governance arrangements and the strategies they adopt to ensure they deliver effective and efficient housing management services.
In its report - ALMO Governance: The inside track - the key findings were:
- Overall, across all organisations, residents, independents, councillors/council nominees are still equally represented, comprising of a third each.
- More than half of its members provide their board chair with a salary whilst 38% remunerate board members.
- Of those who pay board members, only one member reports difficulties recruiting individuals to the board. Whilst for those who do not pay their board members 61% report difficulties recruiting members to the board.
- 84% of ALMOs demonstrate that 100% of their board have participated in training relevant to their role.
- The sector values board diversity with women making up 42% of ALMO boards and the majority encouraging under-represented groups onto their board as well as other formal engagement structures.
- All organisations evaluate the performance of individual board members and the overall board.
Click here to access the full report.
