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• Housing standards for private rented accommodation

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/housing/housing-standards-for-private-rented-accommodation

  We appreciate that regulation of the private rented sector is a complex area of the law and that this can leave landlords and tenants confused as to what is required to ensure that a property supports good health and wellbeing. This page will explain what laws and systems we apply to ensure that private rented accommodation supports the Council's wider aim of health improvement. If the issues below do not answer your question, please get in touch with us.

• Managing houses in multiple occupation

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/housing/managing-houses-in-multiple-occupation

  Houses in Multiple Occupation regulations place a duty on the manager of the property to provide and maintain safe living conditions to protect the tenants from risk of injury.

• Attendance and Pupil Welfare Service

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/schools/attendance-and-pupil-welfare-service

  The Attendance and Pupil Welfare Service work with schools, parents and carers, pupils and other agencies to help reduce unnecessary absences from school.

• Article 4 Direction - Houses in Multiple Occupation

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/planning/houses-in-multiple-occupation-article-4-direction

  The council has made an Article 4 Direction relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMO), this came into force 14 October 2019.

• Animal Health Service

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/animal-welfare-pests-pollution/animal-health-service

  Animal Health's primary function is to prevent the spread of disease and unnecessary suffering of farm animals.

• Chaperone Requirements for Children

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/schools/chaperone-requirements-for-children

  A child taking part in any performance which can include (but is not limited to) TV appearances, filming, theatre, sporting activities or modelling will require a chaperone. Chaperones act in 'loco parentis' and should exercise the care which a parent would be expected to give that child.

• Tell us once - bereavement

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/births-marriages-deaths-nationality/tell-us-once-bereavement

  Our Registrars team have teamed up with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to deliver ‘Tell Us Once’. This service automatically notifies relevant central and local government departments of a family’s change of circumstances.

• Doncaster Supported Housing Improvement Programme

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/housing/doncaster-supported-housing-improvement-programme

  The Supported Housing Improvement Programme (SHIP) is an England wide £20 million funding programme available from 2022-2025. The City of Doncaster Council was successful with its bid for funding and began operation of SHIP in mid-2023. SHIP focuses on three main areas of Supported Housing; Housing Benefits, Housing Standards and Support Review. The project aims to ensure supported housing provides safe and appropriate accommodation, delivers positive outcomes and provides value for money for the taxpayer.

• Managing a tenancy, tenancy deposits & eviction

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/housing/managing-a-tenancy-tenancy-deposits-eviction

  Understanding your rights and responsibility under a tenancy will assist landlords and tenants in helping to make sure lettings run smoothly and that both parties have a clear understanding of their relationship. Deposits in the private rented sector must be now held centrally in a government operated scheme. Eviction can be a complex area of the law and the requirements to be able to use eviction notices has changed.

• Enforcement of standards in the private rented sector

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/housing/enforcement-of-standards-in-privately-rented-property

  We understand that by far the majority of landlords do a good job and problems are resolved without the need for our involvement. The Council has a statutory role to play in ensuring that privately let homes are without risks to occupiers. This page explains how we go about doing this and what we do to secure consistency in enforcement decisions.