CORE - Participating in CORE

Registration

To participate in CORE, please first contact and register with the Social Housing Regulator, who need be aware of your organisation and will supply you with a registration number and any additional information.

Data Submission

If your organisation has done this but is new to CORE, the best way to register it on CORE is to do so on the CORE Helpdesk Customer portal and select the option: 'Institution queries including mergers'. Users will then be asked: 'Is your query about creating a new institution?' from which you can reply, to the best of your knowledge and using the drop down menu: 'Yes, entirely new', 'Yes, by merging other organisations already on the CORE system' or 'No, please update organisation details'. Users are then faced with a tailored set of questions to respond to depending on the above answer they gave. On completion, by selecting 'Create', this information gets sent immediately to the CORE Helpdesk in box to be actioned and for your institution query to be resolved.

If you require any further information regarding CORE that is not available on this website, please contact the CORE Helpdesk using this link.

CORE Software Support

There are a number of commercial housing management software packages available that incorporate the facility to enter/export CORE data. These packages use the e-CORE specifications, provided by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to format data to be exported as text files. The resulting files may then be uploaded directly on to the online data submission system for CORE, which will allow for further editing and dynamic validation.

This link provides details of a number of software suppliers and their software, including a brief description of the product, contact details and their current compliance status with the e-CORE specifications (if applicable).

For more information on the current e-CORE specifications, please email the CORE Helpdesk.