• UK Housing Associations
  • About Us
  • Contact
contacts Sign In
Add Listing Sign In
image
What
image
  • Age Exclusive Housing
  • Assisted Living
  • Care Homes
  • Independent Living
  • Over 55s
  • Retirement Housing
  • Sheltered Accommodation
  • Sheltered Housing
  • Supported Housing
<li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5072"><span class="lp-s-cat">Age Exclusive Housing</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5057"><span class="lp-s-cat">Assisted Living</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5064"><span class="lp-s-cat">Care Homes</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5061"><span class="lp-s-cat">Independent Living</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5071"><span class="lp-s-cat">Over 55s</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5045"><span class="lp-s-cat">Retirement Housing</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5050"><span class="lp-s-cat">Sheltered Accommodation</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5069"><span class="lp-s-cat">Sheltered Housing</span></li><li class="lp-wrap-cats" data-catid="5070"><span class="lp-s-cat">Supported Housing</span></li>
Where
image
  • Add Listing
  • Blog
  • All Locations
image

Housing & Care Glossary of Terms

  • Home
  • Housing & Care Glossary of Terms
AllABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRSTUVWY

A

  • Abatement Order (AO)
  • Acceptable Behaviour Agreement (ABA)
  • Acceptable Behaviour Contract (ABC)
  • Access to Justice (ATJ)
  • Advice Duty (AD)
  • Agricultural Tenancies (AT)
  • Allocations Scheme (AS)
  • Anti-social Behaviour Injunction (ASBI)
  • Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO)
  • Assessment Of Needs
  • Association of Civil Enforcement Agencies (ACEA)
  • Association of London Government (ALG)
  • Assured Shorthold Tenant (AST)
  • Attachment of Earnings Orders (AEO)
  • Attendance Allowance (AA)

B

  • Bed and Breakfast (B&B)
  • Bedroom Standard (BS)
  • Benefits Agency (BA)
  • Best Value Performance Indicator (BVPI)
  • Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME)
  • Boundary Dispute (BD)
  • Break Clauses (BC)
  • Budgeting Loans (BL)

C

  • Call Centre Staff (CCS)
  • Care Inspectorate
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Carers Allowance
  • Case Management System (CMS)
  • Cash-Incentive Schemes (CIS)
  • Cause-Related Marketing (CRM)
  • CCG
  • Certified Bailiffs Association (CBA)
  • Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
  • Chartered Institute for Environmental Health (CIEH)
  • Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
  • Childcare Services (CS)
  • Children’s Services Plan (CSP)
  • Choice-Based Lettings (CBL)
  • Civil Procedure Rules (CPR)
  • Clearance Orders (CO)
  • Closing Orders (CLO)
  • Co-operative (COOP)
  • Code of Guidance (COG)
  • Cohabitation Agreement (CA)
  • Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)
  • Commonhold Ownership (CO)
  • Community Care Grants (CCG)
  • Community Care Legislation (CCL)
  • Community Legal Service (CLS)
  • Community Care Assessment (CCA)
  • Community Service Order (CSO)
  • Composition Orders (CO)
  • Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)
  • Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO)
  • Conflict Resolution Procedure (CRP)
  • Control Area (CA)
  • Corporate Citizenship (CC)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  • Council Tax Benefit (CTB)
  • Council for Registered Gas Installers (CRGI)
  • Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)
  • Counterclaim (CC)
  • Counternotice (CN)

D

  • Decent Homes Standard (DHS)
  • Deduction-from-Earnings Orders (DEO)
  • Default Notice (DN)
  • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Deposit Guarantee Schemes (DGS)
  • Devolved Government (DG)
  • Direct Access Centre (DAC)
  • Disability Living Allowance
  • Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
  • Discretionary Grounds (DG)
  • Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP)
  • Displaced Residential Occupier (DRO)
  • Do-It-Yourself Shared Ownership (DISO)
  • Domiciliary Care
  • Drop-in Centres (DIC)
  • Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO)
  • Duty to Protect Belongings (DPB)

E

  • Eligibility for Assistance (EA)
  • Eligible Rent (ER)
  • Environmental Health Department (EHD)
  • Environmental Health Officer (EHO)
  • Equity Release
  • Excluded Occupiers (EO)
  • Extra Care Housing

F

  • Fair Rent (FR)
  • Fairer Charging Policy
  • Family Access Centre (FAC)
  • Financial Services Authority (FSA)
  • Fixed-Term Occupier (FTO)
  • Fixed-Term Tenancy (FTT)
  • Floating Support (FS)
  • Freehold
  • Front-line Staff (FLS)
  • Full-Duty Applicant (FDA)

G

  • General Possession Procedure (GPP)
  • Gound Rent
  • Grounds for Possession (GFP)

H

  • Habitual Residence Test (HRT)
  • Hard-to-Let Schemes (HTLS)
  • Health Care Provision (HCP)
  • Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO)
  • HOA
  • Holding Deposit (HD)
  • Holistic Needs Assessment
  • Home Ownership (HO)
  • Homeowner (HO)
  • Homesteading Schemes (HS)
  • Hostels Online Project (HOP)
  • House in Multiple Occupation (HMO)
  • Housebuilding (HB)
  • Housing Advice Centre (HAC)
  • Housing Aid Centre (HAC)
  • Housing Association Properties (HAP)
  • Housing Benefit (HB)
  • Housing Benefit Pathfinder Areas (HBPA)
  • Housing Benefit Review Board (HBRB)
  • Housing Corporation (HC)
  • Housing Investment Trusts (HIT)
  • Housing Mobility and Exchange Scheme (HMES)
  • Housing Support Worker (HSW)

I

  • IMCA
  • Implied Term (IT)
  • Improvement Notice (IN)
  • Incapacity Benefit (IB)
  • Income Support (IS)
  • Income Support for Mortgage Interest (ISMI)
  • Independent Housing Ombudsman (IHO)
  • Independent Living
  • Intentional Homelessness (IH)
  • Interim Payment (IP)
  • Interim Possession Order (IPO)
  • Intermediate Care

J

  • Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
  • Joint Assured Shorthold Tenancy (JAST)
  • Joint Assured Tenancy (JAT)
  • Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
  • Joint Secure Tenancy (JST)

L

  • Large-Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT)
  • Lasting Power Of Attorney
  • Leasehold Advisory Service (LAS)
  • Leasehold Enfranchisement (LE)
  • Leasehold Scheme for the Elderly (LSE)
  • Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT)
  • Leaving-Care Policy (LCP)
  • Legal Action Group (LAG)
  • Litigants in Person (LiP)
  • Local Authority Housing/Departments (LAH)
  • Local Authority (LA)
  • Local Connection Disputes (LCD)
  • Local Connection Referrals (LCR)
  • Local Government Association (LGA)
  • Local Government Ombudsman (LGO)
  • Local Housing Allowance (LHA)
  • Local Housing Group/Solutions (LHG)
  • Local Rent Reference (LRR)
  • Lodgings Schemes (LS)
  • Low-Cost Housing (LCH)

M

  • Marriage Value (MV)
  • Matrimonial Property (MP)
  • Meaningful-Occupation Schemes (MOS)
  • Mental Health Service (MHS)
  • Mesne Landlords (ML)
  • Minute for Recall (MFR)
  • Mixed Tenure
  • Mobility Aids (MA)
  • Mortgage Indemnity Guarantee (MIG)
  • Mortgage Indemnity Insurance (MII)
  • Moveable Structure (MS)
  • Multi-Agency Working (MAW)
  • Mutual Exchange (ME)

N

  • National Asylum Support Service (NASS)
  • National Housing Federation (NHF)
  • Needs Assessment
  • NHS Continuing Care
  • No Right to Occupy (NRTO)
  • Nominee Purchaser (NP)
  • Non-Dependent Deduction (NDD)
  • Non-Molestation Orders (NMO)
  • Non-Mutual Housing Association (NMHA)
  • Notice of Seeking Possession (NOSP)
  • Notice to Quit (NTQ)
  • Nursing Care

O

  • Occupation Orders (OO)
  • Occupiers with Basic Protection (OWBP)
  • Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
  • Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI)
  • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
  • One-Stop Drop-In (OSDI)
  • Outreach Teams (OT)
  • Outright Possession Order (OPO)
  • Owner-Occupier (OOO)

P

  • Palliative Care
  • Parliamentary Ombudsman (PO)
  • Part 7 Tenancies (P7T)
  • Part 8 Procedure (P8P)
  • Pathfinder Plans (PP)
  • Pathway Plans (PP)
  • Payment-Protection Insurance (PPI)
  • Peer Review Audit (PRA)
  • Periodic Occupiers (PO)
  • Personal-Safety Initiatives (PSI)
  • PIP
  • Planning Policy Guidance (PPG)
  • Practice Development Programme (PDP)
  • Pre-Budget Report (PBR)
  • Pre-Tenancy Determination (PTD)
  • Primary Health Care (PHC)
  • Priority Need (PN)
  • Prison Advice Project (PAP)
  • Private Rented Accommodation (PRA)
  • Private Rented Sector Schemes (PRSS)
  • Private Sector Housing (PSH)
  • Private Tenants’ Group (PTG)
  • Property Adjustment Order (PAO)
  • Protected Intending Occupier (PIO)
  • Public Order Offences (POO)

Q

  • Quality Mark Awards (QMA)

R

  • Redemption Penalties (RP)
  • Regional Housing Strategies (RHS)
  • Registered Social Landlord (RSL)
  • Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)
  • Regulated Tenancy (RT)
  • Rent Assessment Committee (RAC)
  • Rent Deposit Schemes (RDS)
  • Rent Officer (RO)
  • Rent Assessment Committees (RAC)
  • Rental Purchase (RP)
  • Residents’ Association Meeting (RAM)
  • Respite Care (RC)
  • Restricted Contract (RC)
  • Right to Assign (RTA)
  • Right to Buy (RTB)
  • Right to Manage (RTM)
  • Rural Housing Crisis/Need (RHCN)

S

  • Secure Tenancy Grounds (STG)
  • Security of Tenure (SOT)
  • Service Delivery Methods (SDM)
  • Service Evaluation Procedure (SEP)
  • Service User Groups (SUG)
  • Settled Accommodation (SA)
  • Sex-Work Projects (SWP)
  • Sexual-Health Services (SHS)
  • Shared Ownership Housing (SOH)
  • Sheltered Housing (SH)
  • Short Assured Tenancy (SAT)
  • Single Room Rent (SRR)
  • Single Room Rent Restrictions (SR3)
  • Sinking Funds (SF)
  • Social Fund Payments (SFP)
  • Social Housing Provider (SHP)
  • Social Rented Housing (SRH)
  • Social Services Department/Provision (SSD)
  • Specialist Hostel (SH)
  • Spending Review (SR)
  • Starter Home Initiative (SHI)
  • Statutory Homelessness (SH)
  • Statutory Instrument (SI)
  • Statutory Nuisance (SN)
  • Statutory Sector Agencies (SSA)
  • Strategic Development Costs (SDC)
  • Street Homeless Project (SHP)
  • Support Service Provider (SSP)
  • Supported Accommodation (SA)
  • Supporting People (SP)
  • Suspended Possession Orders (SPO)

T

  • Tenancy Relations Officer (TRO)
  • Tenancy Sustainment Services (TSS)
  • Tenancy Transfer (TT)
  • Tenant Participation and Advisory Service (TPAS)
  • Tenant-Direct Payment (TDP)
  • Tenants’ Association (TA)
  • Time Orders (TO)
  • Trailblazer Status (TS)
  • Travellers’ Rights (TR)
  • Trust Deeds (TD)

U

  • Uncontrolled Tenancies (UT)
  • Unitary Authorities (UA)
  • Universal Credit (UC)
  • User Consultation (UC)
  • User Participation (UP)

V

  • Variation of Lease (VOL)
  • Voluntary Sector Agencies (VSA)
  • Vulnerability Assessment Process (VAP)

W

  • Works in Default (WID)

Y

  • Young Persons Team (YPT)

More Locations

  • Sheltered Housing London
  • Sheltered Housing Manchester
  • Sheltered Housing Leeds
  • Sheltered Housing Liverpool
  • Sheltered Housing Birmingham

Browse Our Directory

  • Browse All Sheltered Housing Locations

Housing Glossary

Home

About Us

About Us

Privacy Policy

Head Office

©2021 Sheltered Accommodation International UK, Ferry Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS2. As part of UK housing association.

image
About Us

© Sheltered Accommodation is a directory of care homes in the UK and beyond, since 2007 we have been providing information on accommodation listings for the elderly.

Contact Us