PfP Thrive - Training the Whole Sector
26/11/2025
Matt Chenery
The shortage of skilled staff in the housing sector is now a strategic risk for landlords. An ageing workforce, rising repair volumes, net zero targets and a tightening regulatory environment have combined to put unprecedented pressure on delivery. At the same time, traditional training provision is often ill-suited to the realities of social housing.
Places for People’s response has been to establish Thrive, a new training provider with a critical difference: it has registered as a main provider, enabling it to work with the entire housing sector, not just its own staff.
“We didn’t set this up as an in-house academy,” says Tom Arey, Director of Thrive. “Housing needs training that reflects the reality of working in people’s homes — and the current system wasn’t meeting that need.”
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