Covers a range of topics relating to mortgages and the wider housing market.
Covers issues relating to savings accounts and payments.
Covers developments in conduct of business regulation
Covers issues relating to the corporate governance and constitution of building societies.
People related matters such as talent development, apprenticeships and diversity.
Internal and external accounting assurance and matters relating to tax.
The regulation and supervision of firms to ensure their safety and soundness under the remit of the Prudential Regulation Authority.
A new legal aid scheme to support borrowers at risk of repossession (member only content).
Building societies and credit unions are customer-owned mutual organisations. Their culture is focused on their members and communities and this influences their day to day decisions.
A wide range of statistics relating to the UK mortgage and housing markets.
Research, analysis and guidance about our members and the issues that affect them.
Retail savings data including net receipts and deposits, ISAs and interest rates.
Operational and financial information about building societies. Includes AGM & financial results and remuneration details.
Submission and publication deadlines for BSA data and reports.
Bank Rate cut to 4.75% but pace of rate cuts expected to moderate in wake of Budget
News and views on topical issues from the BSA and guests.
View our latest press releases and comment here.
The BSA's quarterly magazine covers whats happening in the world of building societies, credit unions and the wider financial services sector.
A quarterly survey that assesses consumer sentiment regarding the UK property market.
View biographies and download photos of the BSA's key spokespeople
BSA speeches from events and seminars
View the latest webinars, training and other events open to members, associates and other stakeholders
View our latest BSA Annual Conference and comment here.
View our latest Past events & summaries and comment here.
Learn how to promote your event to the BSA's membership.
An introduction to treasury management (30th January 2025)
Find factsheets on mortgages, savings and the building society sector.
Track building societies that no longer exists and get a link to its successor's website.
Find mortgage instructions and specific requirements setting out individual building society policies.
The UK Savings Week campaign aims to get people engaged in saving.
Toolkits to develop Workplace Savings are available here.
Here you can find our publications, responses to consultation documents, mortgage instructions, statistics and sector job vacancies.
Find out more about the BSA and the sector.
Contact details for each of our 49 members.
Our Associate members include a wide range of companies from insurers, banks, accountants, solicitors, and other business suppliers to BSA members.
The National Credit Union Forum (NCUF) is the Credit Union Committee of the BSA.
Find out how building societies have purpose beyond profit
View biographies and download photos of our key spokespeople
Vacancies for senior management, executive and other positions at the BSA and its member organisations
Find out the wide range of benefits of joining the BSA as an associate member.
The Building Societies Association is the voice of the UK's building societies.
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10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introductionLouise Thornbury, Head of HR & Finance, Building Societies Association |
10:05 - 10:50 A summary of the Employment Rights Bill - What does it mean for our sector?To include the introduction of day one employment rights, changes to zero hours contracts, strengthened sick leave, parental and other leave rights, collective redundancy, a ban on fire and rehire and changes to flexible working. |
10:50 - 11:00 Comfort break |
11:00 - 11:45 What are the Implications of the new duty to prevent sexual harassment?This session will cover the meaning of all reasonable steps and definition of harassment, implications for policies and risk assessments, and “new” obligation to prevent harassment of employees by third parties. Speaker: Catherine Wilson, Partner - Employment Law, Constantine Law |
11:45 - 12:15 How do the HR related changes in the Budget impact on our Sector?This session will include the meaning of all reasonable steps and definition of harassment, implications for policies and risk assessments, and “new” obligation to prevent harassment of employees by third parties. Speaker: John Harding, Partner and Global Capability Lead, Employment Tad and Payroll, PwC |
12:15 - 12:30 Q&A session |
12:30 Close |
(Registration closes at 9am on Monday 18th November 2024)
Cancellation policy
Catherine Wilson, Partner - Employment Law, Constantine Law
Catherine is an employment law expert. She has over 35 years experience working for employers across several public and private sector organisations. Following a spell working in-house, Catherine has worked with the Building Societies Association for 30 years .
Catherine is a partner with specialist law firm Constantine Law. Prior to joining Constantine Law, she headed up the regional and national employment teams for several large national law firms.
Catherine has particular expertise in discrimination and whistleblowing cases but also delivers advice on corporate restructuring transfer of undertaking redundancies and reorganisations.
Catherine is a regular commentary on employment law matters for several years including The Financial Times, the BBC, People Management and Lexus Nexus. She is a keen advocate of employment training and regularly delivers in house and on line webinars for clients and professional groups.
James Buckley, Solicitor - Employment law and Workforce ESG, PwC
James provides focused and pragmatic advice to clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. He has a particular focus on sustainability and the ‘S’ of ESG, advising on workforce reporting and strategy. He regularly works alongside PwC colleagues on pay governance, worker status and diversity projects.
He has conducted a number of secondments which means that he has experience of the particular demands of in-house legal and HR practitioner roles and of managing internal stakeholders, ensuring that his advice suits the client's commercial needs.
John Harding, Partner and Global Capability Lead, Employment Tax and Payroll, PwC
John leads our UK Employment practice at PwC and is global capability leader for Employment Tax & Payroll. John has over 30 years advising clients on how to manage their employment costs as well as associated employment tax and employment risk and reward issues.
John's background in Employment Taxes means that he is familiar with HMRC's approach to employment matters and his wide ranging experience across a number of industries means that he is able to provide a range of pragmatic and practical solutions for business.
John regularly meets with HMRC, the Department for Business and other departments to share his insights.
The BSA is delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to the FCA’s review of requirements following the implementation of the Consumer Duty.
The BSA strongly supports the principle of charging a fee to CMCs.