NROSH Regional Seminars - only 3 remaining dates

London, Thistle Westminster Hotel, SW1, Mon 13 Oct
Guildford Carlton Mandolay Hotel, Thurs 23 Oct
London, Thistle Westminster, Weds 5 Nov

The 2008 NROSH seminars are designed to give data providers all the information and advice needed to get started with NROSH, and to meet the targets for data submission.  Based on our experience of working with a range of local authorities and housing associations/ALMOs, seminar themes will include:

• the benefits of NROSH
• examples of how NROSH data can be used
• practical steps to successful data submission
• using NROSH-Online to extract and use NROSH data
• troubleshooting and an opportunity to ask specific questions

Who should attend?
The seminars are aimed primarily at local authorities/ALMOs, large RSLs and any small RSL in a group structure that are not already submitting data to NROSH.

If your organisation is already submitting data or is a smaller housing association, and you think it would be useful to attend, we are also happy to accept your booking.

Booking
To secure your place, please complete and return the booking form to us by email at NROSH@housingcorp.gsx.gov.uk

There are capacity limits at all the venues so it is first come, first served.

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Target dates

To fully realise the benefits of NROSH it is important that all landlords are submitting complete and accurate data.  But please don't forget that we're not asking for all NROSH data fields to be supplied at the moment. 

Web resources

These webpages provide information for housing associations supplying data to NROSH.

NROSH data standards, technical troubleshooting and information for local authorities, can be found on the CLG website.

If you wish to supply data to NROSH, generate NROSH statistical reports or download raw NROSH data, please visit: www.nrosh-online.net

Background

NROSH collects social housing property level data from England's Local Authorities (LAs) and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs).  When complete, NROSH will become a single data repository of social housing stock covering the whole of England to provide better quality, more flexible and consistent data for analysis and reporting as well as reducing the data reporting burden on data providers.

NROSH is a joint initiative between the Housing Corporation and Communities and Local
Government and aims to deliver quality data to providers and stakeholders across the sector.

The approach employed by NROSH is to collect data on individual properties, by extracting data directly from housing management systems through software "toolkits". Further details on toolkits are available on the CLG website.

For full information on NROSH data standards, field definitions, XML schema and toolkits, refer to the data standards section of the NROSH website via the above link.

For the Housing Corporation, NROSH will replace the vast majority of the collection of the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR).  For CLG, NROSH will replace sections of the Housing Strategy Statistical Appendix (HSSA), Business Plan Statistical Appendix (BPSA), Housing Revenue Account Subsidy Claim Form (HRASC) and Housing Flow Reconciliation (HFR) LA Statistical Returns as well as a reduction in ad-hoc requests.

The Director of Regulation at the Housing Corporation, Clare Miller, recently encouraged RSLs to submit data to NROSH by stating;

"The Housing Corporation (HC) is working towards full implementation of NROSH from 2009/10 and is strongly encouraging RSLs to work with the HC.  The HC is planning to replace the Regulatory Statistical Return (RSR) with NROSH from 2009/10, with the last RSR parallel run in 2010/11.

From now on the RSR will be frozen to the 2008 data standards to align the RSR to NROSH data standards Release 4. In late 2007, the HC will run a series of seminars to provide further information."

NROSH data can be accessed via NROSH-Online, http://www.nrosh-online.net/ - a dedicated data dissemination tool administered by CLG.

Help Desks

NROSH HA Data Support Help Desk
Please use this help desk to assist you to get started with NROSH and increase the quantity and quality of the data you supply.  Data support staff are there to deal with all your questions about NROSH data standards.  They also advise on the use of the NROSH to RSR Facility to pre-populate your RSR with NROSH data.

Phone: 020 7627 5117
Email: NROSHHADataSupport@Forvus.co.uk

NROSH Technical Help Desk
Please use this help desk if you have queries about the more technical aspects of NROSH including toolkits, configuration, mapping and data submission via Interform.  Technical staff also provide advice on the use of NROSH-Online, as well as usernames and passwords for this service.

Phone: 020 7944 3294
Email: nrosh.helpdesk@communities.gsi.gov.uk

For emails, please ensure that the subject heading is NROSH + <your query>.