Meeting the standards
Strong assurance; no significant concerns.
Regulatory scrutiny increasingly focuses on governance, oversight, evidence quality, control effectiveness and board understanding. GRC Assured helps providers maintain a live assurance record across key compliance risks so regulatory preparation is continuous, not a last-minute document exercise.
A live assurance record across key compliance risks — so when oversight questions arrive, the evidence base is already maintained, current and traceable.
Since active consumer regulation began in April 2024, social housing providers are inspected against the consumer standards. Boards, councillors and senior leaders are now expected to evidence oversight of tenant safety, service quality, performance and improvement — not just assert it.
Regulatory scrutiny increasingly focuses on whether an organisation can evidence control effectiveness, action ownership, escalation and board visibility — the difference between a logged certificate and demonstrable assurance.
Public regulatory judgements and inspection material repeatedly highlight the same gaps. GRC Assured is built to address each one.
The Regulator assigns consumer (C) grades from C1 to C4. Weaker grades can lead to greater scrutiny, improvement plans, intensive engagement and — in serious cases — enforcement consideration.
Strong assurance; no significant concerns.
Some weaknesses; improvement required.
Significant improvement required.
Substantial improvement; enforcement may be considered.
GRC Assured supports preparation and evidence governance. It does not determine, predict or influence any regulatory grade or judgement.
GRC Assured connects each regulatory expectation to the control being tested and the evidence held — so scrutiny can be answered with records, not reassurance.
Use dashboards and regulator packs to understand current assurance, gaps, open risks and evidence completeness before formal requests arrive.
Respond to questions with drillable records. Show the audit behind the rating, the finding behind the action and the evidence behind the reported position.
Track improvement plans, monitor action closure, evidence remediation and show progress through updated packs and trend reporting.
Audit Targets shows planned versus delivered second-line coverage, with traceable rows back to every counted audit — the programme-delivery evidence regulators ask to see.
Monitor scheduled-audit delivery against configured targets, with traceable rows back to counted audits
| Audit type | Basis | Target | Actual | Gap | Coverage | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRA (Statutory) | Fixed | 15 | 8 | 7 | 53% | Behind |
| Fire Servicing | Fixed | 30 | 9 | 21 | 30% | Behind |
| Discipline total | 45 | 17 | 28 | 38% |
GRC Assured helps provide an answer based on tested controls, approved audits, evidenced actions and traceable reporting.
Where regulatory expectations, consumer standards or internal policies create assurance requirements, GRC Assured helps teams connect those expectations to the controls being tested and the evidence being held — assurance mapping from regulatory concern, to audit work, to finding, to action, to board report.
Since active consumer regulation began in April 2024, the Regulator of Social Housing inspects registered providers against its consumer standards, covering areas such as the safety and quality of homes, transparency, and tenant engagement. Providers are increasingly expected to evidence oversight, not simply assert compliance.
The Regulator assigns a consumer grade from C1 (meeting the standards) to C4 (serious failings requiring substantial improvement). C2, C3 and C4 can lead to greater scrutiny, improvement plans, intensive engagement and, in serious cases, enforcement consideration. GRC Assured supports preparation and evidence governance; it does not determine, predict or influence any grade.
By maintaining a live, drillable assurance record — from requirement and control, to audit, evidence, finding, action and board report — so oversight questions can be answered with records rather than a last-minute document search.
It is software that helps housing associations evidence and oversee compliance across statutory safety and consumer-standards obligations. GRC Assured provides this as an independent second-line assurance platform.
No. It supports regulatory assurance preparation and evidence governance. It does not guarantee compliance, remove the need for professional judgement, or determine the outcome of any regulatory inspection, audit or legal process.
A focused walkthrough of the assurance workflow — configured around your current regulatory, audit and governance priorities.