A HOUSING association has been blasted by its regulator for “widespread” failures and given just weeks to clean up its act.

Yoker Housing Association was issued with the damning statement from the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) on Thursday over its governance.

They said work had started with the organisation back in 2017 with concerns raised then.

Last October, Yoker commissioned an independent government review and it was due to be completed by March.

After a two-month delay, Yoker submitted their report to the regulator and concluded they were “partially compliant” with six standards.

Yoker has 639 homes and collects more than £2.2million in rent each year. Almost 96 per cent of tenants report being satisfied with their service.

The SHR stated last week: “Our assessment is that Yoker is not compliant with standards one to six inclusive.

“There are compliance failures against each of these standards.

“In our judgement Yoker was unable to demonstrate that it manages its resources to ensure its financial well-being (standard three), the governing body was unable to demonstrate it leads and directs the RSL to achieve good outcomes (standard one) and that it has the skills and knowledge to be effective (standard six).

“Therefore, we consider the failures are widespread and demonstrate that there are serious weaknesses in Yoker’s governance.”

Yoker Housing Association declined to comment.

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The regulator said they remained concerned Yoker had “failed to recognise” it wasn’t complying with standards and needed to improve. They said they have been “slow” to change its ways and didn’t even finish some of the actions they committed to.

They added: “The plans it submitted did not provide us with sufficient assurance on how Yoker intends to become compliant and that the governing body has capacity to demonstrate effective oversight and embedding of the improvement process.”

Yoker now has until November 11 to prove how it will fix the problems and submit a new business plan to regulators.

To read the report, visit scottishhousingregulator.gov.uk.