Social Tenants Access to Information Requirements (STAIRs)

Have you ever wanted to search for information about your landlord or make a request for specific performance data or information? You can now do this through STAIRs. 

What is STAIRs? 

STAIRs stands for Social Tenants Access to Information Requirement scheme. It is a new standard introduced by the UK Government to enhance transparency for tenants of private sector social housing providers, such as Acis Group.  

STAIRs Publication Scheme 

Much of the information that we are required to publish under STAIRs is already available on the Acis Group website. For ease, we’ve organised the information using the STAIRs classifications below, including links to relevant pages on our website.

You can find out everything you want to know about Acis Group under the About Us section of the website. You can also discover: 

We publish details about our spending, grants and use of service charge revenue in our financial statements. These can be found in the Our Performance section of the website and is updated annually. 

Additionally, we also publish a more accessible and customer-friendly annual report that can be accessed online here

You can view your rent statements and any services charges via MyAcis – our customer-only app which puts you in control of managing your tenancy.

Our Asset Management Strategy sets out our priorities and how we best manage the homes we own. Download our Asset Management Strategy here.

It outlines how we aim to:

  • provide desirable and healthy homes, neighbourhoods and  communities for our customers which are modern, safe, secure, and affordable to heat as we work to improve energy efficiency

  • deliver value for money through the efficient and effective procurement and commissioning of goods and services

  • build communities through strategic investment and regeneration

  • assist with the formulation of policy and standards for both new and existing housing, in response to the Climate Change Emergency by identifying a roadmap to ensure we are zero carbon ready. You can view our Environmental and Sustainability Policy here or view our ESG Report here.

You can see details of the maintenance and repair work we have carried out over the last 12 months in our Annual Report to Tenants and our Tenant Satisfaction Measures Report on Our Performance page here.

You can also see our Lettable Standard statement by clicking here.

Our Housing Stock Profile

Number of Bedrooms Social Rent
Number of Homes
Social Rent
Average Rent (£)
Affordable Rent
Number of Homes
Affordable Rent
Average Rent (£)
Bedsit 2 74.62 4 98.32
1 Bed 868 87.24 128 121.07
2 Bed 2,356 106.33 482 136.64
3 Bed 1,935 114.44 246 154.20
4 Bed 110 131.61 22 190.26
5 Bed 1 122.37 - -
7 Bed 1 138.99 - -
Total 5,273 106.69 882 140.44

Housing Policies

You can find all of our policies related to the following areas on Our Policies page

  • Aids and adaptations

  • Asbestos management

  • Damp and mould

  • Electrical safety

  • Fire safety

  • Gas and heating safety

  • Legionella

  • Lifts

Our housing stock

We take great care in maintaining your homes and have multiple ways of making sure homes are in quality, safe and well-maintained.

We run an annual stock condition survey programme

We are very conscious of the energy efficiency of our properties and closely monitor which homes perform well and which need improvements. We capture and report this Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) information in our ESG Report.

Click here to find the EPC for your property on the UK Government website.

Acis Group also takes extremely seriously being and remaining compliant with all statutory regulations as set out by the Regulator of Social Housing. You can view our compliance performance in our Tenant Satisfaction Measures Report here

We regularly publish updates on how we’re doing in the Our Performance pages of the website.

Regulation and oversight

Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs)

Our latest TSM data is published here and includes the following information: 

  • Overall satisfaction 

  • Keeping properties in good repair 

  • Maintaining building safety 

  • Respectful and helpful engagement 

  • Effective handling of complaints 

  • Responsible neighbourhood management 

Media releases: information produced by our media team are published in the News section of the website

Complaints

Complaint metrics: See our complaints process page which includes the following complaints performance information: 

  • How to make complaints, our process and how to give feedback

To view our Customer Feedback Policy, click here.

To view our annual Complaints and Service Improvement report, click here.

Information request data: we do not yet have any data to report 

Information request responses: we do not yet have any responses to publish, and are reviewing how we might share this information in future 

Health and safety performance and assessments: not currently available 

Maintenance work: not currently available

Description of services: the About Us page describes all of our core housing services. 

Advice and guidance for tenants: the Your Home section of our website contains extensive advice, guidance and support for our residents.

Policies relating to the following areas can be found in our Policy Directory:

  • Allocations
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Hate and Mate Crime
  • Hoarding
  • Mobility Scooters
  • Neighbourhood and Estate Management  

Other lists and registers relating to the management of social housing: the majority of our social homes are let through the local authority through choice based lettings schemes. These are listed by region on the ‘Apply for Social Housing’ page of the Gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-council-housing

The Policy Directory section on our website contains our decision making policies as well as our policies relating to the management of social housing. 

Information Requests

From 1st April 2027, you will also be able to request certain information on things like: 

  • Anti-social behaviour 

  • Complaints handling 

  • Procedures, and performance 

  • Health and safety 

  • Rent rates 

  • Property conditions, repairs and improvements to property 

  • Service charges 

  • Stock profile 

  • Energy efficiency information 

  • Estate management 

Click here to make a STAIRs request using this form.

Alternatively, you can request information through any other method of contacting us: