The social care and housing division of Capita Resourcing has been appointed as an approved supplier of recruitment services within Procurement for Housing’s new recruitment framework. Under the three-year framework, approved suppliers can now provide both temporary and permanent staff across a wider variety of job categories including a number of specialist housing roles. Sam…
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Gwalia signs £300k Capita contract
Capita Software Services has won a five-year contract worth around £300,000 with Welsh housing provider Grŵp Gwalia to consolidate its housing operations onto a single central system. Gwalia, which manages 9,000 properties covering affordable and student housing across Wales, will use an integrated system comprising Capita’s OpenHousing and OpenMobile platforms. This will allow front- and…
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Orchard wins £1.5m HMS contract
Following a one-year tendering and selection process, CityWest Homes has signed a £1.5 million contract with Orchard Information Systems for the development and implementation of a new fully-managed and hosted housing management system. The new system is scheduled to be fully operational in 2012 and will be hosted by Orchard’s partner ITPS. The new housing…
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Melville exchanges with CES
Melville Housing Association has added a mutual exchange module from CES as a key part of a recent website upgrade. The CES module uses a map-based search facility to make it easier for tenants to see if there are possible ‘swap’ options in a suitable area. The module also makes it simpler for tenants to…
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Tenant portals – supporting your staff & your residents
Many housing providers are being turned on to the benefits of tenant portals. Allowing residents to pay rent and log repairs online can encourage the prompt resolution of issues, free up time for housing staff and aid the improvement of call-response SLAs, but has the full potential of an intelligently-deployed tenant portal been properly explored?…
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Video: Housing Technology 2011 – Nottingham
The second Housing Technology conference and executive took place on Thursday 10 February 2011 at the National College for Leadership in Nottingham, attracting 200+ delegates, speakers and sponsors.
