The Board of Civitas Social Housing PLC announced appointment of Alison Hadden as an independent non-executive Director of the Company on 21 November 2019. Alison brings a depth of experience within social housing and local government, having started her career at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council and Birmingham City Council. She then went on to hold Chief Executive positions at several major housing associations, including Paradigm Housing, a 13,000-home housing association based in Buckinghamshire. Alison has also been an executive director at Circle Housing. In these roles she has worked with many of the stakeholders in the industry, including the Regulator of Social Housing. Alison is currently Chair of Housing Plus Group, an 18,000-home housing association group in Staffordshire and Shropshire, and a non-executive director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Yorkshire Housing, a 20,000-home housing association operating in the Yorkshire area.