The code is expected to be the main outcome of a JRF review of housing association governance.
The foundation, backed by calls from the office of Public Management, had originally planned to examine wider public sector conduct.
It has now expanded its remit to include housing associations in the light of the row at Places for People and a scathing report on public sector management from the Audit Commission.
JRF director Lord Richard Best said: "We are going to do a review of public service providers – health trusts, big charities, housing associations. This was originally intended to examine the governance of these bodies ahead of the Charities Bill next year, however we will want to include the specific concerns raised from Places for People."
If anything good is to come from the row it should be this
David Walker
He said housing needed something similar to the report done by former banker Derek Higgs for the DTI and published in January because it was entering a new area where the limits of existing structures were being stretched.
David Walker, Guardian journalist and former board member at Places for People, said he and two other former board members at the centre of the association's row would ask the ODPM to recognise the need for a "review on the regulation of the social housing sector".
Walker, restaurater Prue Leith and finance consultant Judith Harris-Jones are to meet Genie Turton, the ODPM's director general for housing, planning and regeneration, to press their case on 4 November. Walker said: "We need a Higgs-style review for the sector. If anything good is to come from the Places for People debacle it should be this."
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Housing Today
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