FOI Request - Communications Staff Working on Housing

Request 101003573728

1.  How many homes to let at a social rent package (including London Affordable Rent and London Living Rent where applicable) do you have in your housing stock, either directly or through an ALMO or a wholly owned housing company (please list them separately?

2.  How many comms people in your organisation work on housing communications? This includes anyone tasked with things like media relations, social media, marketing, web operations, public affairs, and so on. Please list the posts and what proportion of their time is spent on housing comms, as a proportion of a full time equivalent post.  

3.  Are those staff members paid for from funds in your housing revenue account (ie your tenants rent) or by other means? Please explain how if it’s the latter.
 

Response 14-06-2024

1. 6288

2. No dedicated housing comms post, housing comms is integrated with corporate comms where there are two full time officers working on behalf of all corporate services. These posts deal with media enquiries, campaigns and advertising when required. There are also posts within housing who are admins for the dedicated social media page and manage that.

3. The total costs of the communications team will be included as part of a wider overhead allocation of similar central costs.
The allocation basis for this overhead apportionment is based on HRA staffing costs as a %age of total council staffing costs and the percentage share tends to be around 2-3% each year.