The challenge for housing associations is to bring in people with a commercial perspective – and not too many middle-aged white menGovernance is changing in housing organisations. Rather than board members being gatekeepers who pick holes in reports,we need them to become sounding boards for staff, enabling them to test new ideas and get contributions from the board at an early stage. Many boards already occupy directors with social housing, and council or customer perspectives so the challenge is to bring in people from external the sector with a commercial perspective. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com