Licensing is expected in 2027 or 2028, and Housing Benefit will be linked to the licence. Stedwise shows, district by district, whether each licence you will need is ready, who owes each piece of evidence, and what to fix first.
Ten to fifteen minutes for the National Standards. No account needed. Your result on screen, and as a PDF if you want it.
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Today only property safety law applies. The five licence conditions read “not applicable”, and Birmingham is critical over one expired gas record.On licensing day the five conditions and the fit-and-proper test are judged too, pass or fail, with no percentage. Birmingham now also fails condition 5: one scheme has no named service manager.
Blockers come first, because they stop you whatever the score. Then every unmet criterion, ranked by the Readiness Index points it adds for each hour of work, with what “done” looks like.
The Readiness Index is scored against the 70% threshold, separately for each rule set: the National Supported Housing Standards, Birmingham S.E.A.Q.A.S., the Ofsted standards for 16 and 17 year olds, and Blackpool’s and Coventry’s council standards.
The licence goes to whoever is “managing or in control”, and “in many cases, the managing agent will be the appropriate person” (government response (opens in a new tab)).
For each scheme Stedwise records who performs sixteen functions, who answers for them and who holds the evidence, so each party sees its own gaps. It never decides who holds a licence.
Nobody recorded: Council liaison
Northfield Homes Association
Head landlord
Harbour Lane Housing Ltd
Managing agent
Brightpath Support CIC
Support provider
Your first result comes from your own answers. Once you subscribe, certificates, adopted policies, training records and support reviews feed the index directly, so it reflects what you can show.
Anything with a date warns you before it lapses, and an expired safety certificate shows on the licence card as a blocker.
Stedwise watches 62 official sources, from legislation.gov.uk to the regulators and councils, for changes. Each change becomes an obligation that quotes its source word for word, and a person approves it before it counts.
Like a map legend: solid for law, dashed for proposals, dotted for our forecasts. A forecast never counts as law.
The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 gave government the power to license supported housing, set National Standards and tie Housing Benefit to the licence. The response of 16 April 2026 confirmed all three.
The readiness check is free and stays free. No setup fees and no VAT is charged; annual billing gives two months free.
Any number of units
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Readiness check, responsibility map, licence cards (law today) and your gap list.
Every module, priced by units
£149a month
For up to 10 bed spaces, then £9 a unit to 50 and less beyond. Each rate applies only to the units in its band.
The first 25 annual subscribers
30%off
Off list on annual billing, locked until 31 March 2028.
The S.E.A.Q.A.S. pack is £995 once, credited in full against a subscription started within 90 days. Full pricing and a calculator