The Dept for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has announced a package of measures in line with its wider plans to reform standards and regulation in the rented housing sector that will see stronger enforcement against "failing social landlords".

The measures will include using social media platforms to name and shame poorly performing social housing providers; setting up a "Resident Panel" of 250 social tenants to provide input on improving the quality of social housing and to scrutinise and influence measures to strengthen the Decent Homes Standard as well as publishing draft clauses to legislation reforming the "regulation of social housing through tougher consumer powers, greater enforcement tools to tackle failing landlords and new responsibilities on social landlords."