Decent Homes Measures

Be compliance-ready for October 2025 — and beyond

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What you get

Guaranteed Compliance

Stay aligned with Awaab’s Law statutory timeframes, with built-in workflows that mirror investigation, repair, and follow-up requirements, giving you regulator-ready assurance at every step.

Repair Surveying

Capture tenant confirmation that works have been completed to a satisfactory standard, closing the loop between job completion and resident experience.

Follow-Up Surveys

Check back with tenants after 30/60/90 days to ensure repairs remain effective, helping to spot recurring damp and mould issues before they escalate.

Real-Time Alerts

Receive instant notifications when tenants report unresolved or recurring issues, enabling rapid intervention and reducing the risk of regulatory breaches.

Evidence-Ready Audit

Automatically log all notifications, survey responses, and follow-up actions in a secure audit trail that can be shared with regulators or the Housing Ombudsman.

Cost-Effective Reach

Prioritise low-cost, high-response digital surveys, supplemented by targeted telephone, SMS, or postal methods to reach every tenant fairly and efficiently.

Damp and mould dashboard

Instant Understanding

Guaranteed compliance (without the admin drag)

We align every step to the statutory process: trigger surveys on hazard report or job completion, collect before/after sentiment, and escalate automatically if tenants signal unresolved risk. You’ll have a clear line of sight from report → investigation → works → completion → tenant sign-off, with timestamps that mirror the legal clock.

Verify — then verify again

Damp and mould can reappear. We run two passes by default:

Post-completion verification (within hours or days of works marked complete).

Scheduled follow-up (e.g., at 30/60/90 days or seasonally).If a tenant reports recurrence or residual issues, the system flags the case, routes it to the right team, and creates a documented audit trail that shows how you acted.

Instant understanding

Live dashboards show:

Resolution confidence (how many tenants confirm “fixed first time”)

Recurrence rates by property type, contractor, or geography

Root-cause patterns (ventilation, insulation, glazing, thermal bridges) drawn from free-text analysis

Time-to-investigate / time-to-start / time-to-complete against statutory thresholds

Drill from portfolio trends down to the single home, with transcripts and survey evidence ready to export for board packs and regulators.

Learn more about how we help landlords below:

September 9, 2025

Housing

Tenant Satisfaction Measures: More Than Just a Box to Tick

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September 9, 2025

Housing

The Hidden Cost of Housing Voids and How to Avoid Them

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September 9, 2025

Housing

Lessons Learnt: The Key to Preventing Damp and Mould Issues

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September 5, 2025

Housing

Connecting Feedback and Complaints for Better Housing Services

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September 3, 2025

Housing

Are You Compliant with Awaab’s Law?

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September 3, 2025

Housing

Awaab’s Law: What to Expect -and Why Being Proactive Matters

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FAQs

What are the Decent Homes Standards?

The Decent Homes Standards set minimum requirements for housing quality, ensuring homes are free from serious hazards, kept in good repair, and provide a reasonable degree of thermal comfort.

What is Awaab’s Law?

Awaab’s Law requires landlords to investigate and fix hazards such as damp and mould within set timescales, and to evidence compliance. It is part of updated housing standards designed to keep homes safe and decent.

How does GovMetric help landlords meet Decent Homes requirements?

GovMetric CX provides automated repair verification surveys, follow-up checks, and real-time alerts when issues are unresolved. It creates an auditable evidence trail showing that repairs were completed within statutory deadlines. This helps landlords demonstrate continuous compliance and early intervention.

What evidence can GovMetric provide to regulators?

GovMetric automatically logs repair verification responses, follow-up surveys, and alerts. It generates reports that can be shared with the Regulator of Social Housing, Housing Ombudsman, or local inspectors to prove compliance.

Does GovMetric integrate with existing housing management systems?

GovMetric is currently able to take a file from housing management apps like NEC, MRI, Civica, Aaeron and automatically push out a survey campaign. In time we expect this service to integrates with Housing Management Systems more deeply e.g. updating the status of the repair/adding notes automatically ensuring tenant feedback is directly linked to maintenance records.

How does this benefit landlords?

Landlords gain:

Reduced compliance risk by evidencing statutory timescales.
Early warning of unresolved hazards.
Better tenant trust through proactive follow-up.
Data-driven insights into recurring property issues.
Audit-ready reporting for regulators and boards.

How do tenants benefit?

Tenants see quicker responses to hazards, receive follow-up checks to ensure problems stay fixed, and gain confidence that their landlord is accountable to statutory housing standards.

Where is the service hosted?

GovMetric CX is hosted in the EU on secure AWS infrastructure, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified, with data encrypted at rest and in transit.

Can GovMetric support other housing compliance regimes?

Yes. GovMetric CX can be configured to support broader housing compliance frameworks, including Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs), complaints handling, and other regulatory evidence requirements.

How quickly will we see results?

Data is visible from the very first survey return. You won’t need to wait months for a market research report—dashboards update in real-time.

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