STAIRs is a new standard introduced by the Government to make sure tenants have clear access to information about their social landlord.

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STAIRs stands for the Social Tenants Access to Information Requirement scheme. It aims to improve transparency by giving social housing tenants, such as Leeds Federated customers, better access to information about their housing provider.

 

STAIRs information

Most of the information we’re required to publish under STAIRs is already available on our website. To help you find the information you need, we’ve organised it below using the STAIRs classifications:

You can find out everything you want to know about Leeds Federated in the ‘about us’ section of the website. Information includes:

We publish details about our spending, grants and use of service charge revenue in our financial statements.

The documents can be found in the ‘governance’ section of the website, on the ‘financial statements’ page. Our financial statements are updated annually.

We also publish our annual report in the ‘governance’ section of the website – this includes information about how we spend the income we receive from rent.

Our procurement guide is available on the ‘finance and governance policies’ page.

We regularly publish updates about our performance on the ‘governance’ and  ‘performance’ sections of our website. Information includes:

The Housing Ombudsman and RSH also publish information about our performance, including:

We share information about our housing services across the website, including:

Our current Corporate Plan (2025 – 2030) sets out our five-year strategy. We also have a series of service standards that we work to.

You can find updates on our ongoing and completed maintenance projects below:

  • Stock Profile – the detail and transfers (details of any asset transfer whether purchase or sale in the last 12 months and any anticipated assets transfers within the next 12 month period) are available in Note 6 of our Financial Statments. These can be found on the ‘financial statements’ section of the website (for 2025-26 see page 46).
  • Stock Condition Surveys  – to help us keep your home up to standard, we carry out a Home Condition Survey every 5 years – this is sometimes known as a Stock Condition Survey.

You can find out more about our repairs service on the ‘repairs’ section of the website.

Information held in registers required by law

You can also find out which Neighbourhood Officers are working in each area by visiting the relevant neighbourhood pages on Your Voice:

We’ll regularly review the information published here to ensure it remains accurate and up to date.

If you’re not satisfied with the information provided

If you think we haven’t published information that we hold and that it should be included in our STAIRs Publication Scheme, you can ask us to review this.

We’ll review your complaint within 30 calendar days.  In certain circumstances, additional time may be added.  If you’re unhappy with our review outcome, you can then escalate this directly to the Housing Ombudsman.

Information requests

From April 2027, you will have a legal right to ask us for information about how we manage your home and the services we provide. This new right is designed to make our services more transparent and easier to understand.

We’re currently developing our process for responding to STAIRs requests. We will provide further information on how you can make a request from April 2027 in due course.