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Blog by Managing Director Les Warren

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It’s hard to believe that almost four months have passed since the formal launch of RWP (Reside With Progress). RWP brought together the supported living arms of Progress Housing Group and Reside Housing Association. Reside joined Progress Housing Group in September 2021.

One of our aims as an organisation is to be recognised as the leader in our field in terms of the quality of our service offer to tenants. Much of the last six months have been spent by myself and the rest of the RWP management team formulating and communicating our ambition, both internally and externally, and starting to deliver our three-year business plan.

We have several priorities for the year ahead. Firstly we intend to harvest the benefits of a new repairs contract entered into with Bell Group – this contract went live at the beginning of July.  Secondly we want to embed the creation of specialist teams to deliver services to supported living tenants - we believe this is an important component of our service model. Finally, we plan to grow our supported living development pipeline, where we build and acquire new property across the UK.

All our work is underpinned by a partnership mindset. The instinct to draw stakeholders, such as support providers, commissioners and families together and see the world from their perspective is a strong one at RWP.

Several months ago our RWP Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of Progress Housing Group, Bernie Keenan announced his retirement. That will take place at the end of July. We will miss him hugely. He has made a phenomenal contribution to the development of RWP and more widely to our part of the housing sector as a founder member of the Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network (LDAHN). I will take over the reins from him at RWP in August.  This change in leadership represents evolution rather than revolution. I feel we are moving forward on strong foundations.