SSHS’s Yaw Boateng, Sally Trueman and Nic Bliss, together with Daisy Armstrong & Michael Verrier from our partner organisation, the G15 Residents Group, met with Baroness Taylor of Stevenage – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 4th November 2025.
Baroness Taylor made clear her resolve to see stigma tackled. She referred to her own upbringing in social housing and her former work as a Councillor in Stevenage where she indicated that she had come across cases which she was not happy with. She agreed to an ongoing dialogue with SSHS and the G15 Residents Group to track progress on stigma and she suggested that our two groups could be involved in working with Ministry officials on a stigma component to the Competence and Conduct Standard. We also discussed the need to meet with her officers to discuss our proposals made to the Ministry last year.