Morrison has won new repairs and maintenance contracts worth £37 million with social housing providers, with the option of increasing the contracts to £63 million. In London, Morrison’s new contracts are with One Housing and AmicusHorizon. At One Housing, Morrison will be providing responsive repairs, voids services and support for the Decent Homes programme, with…
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Sabre focuses on human capital
At its recent networking lunch for housing providers, Sabre Resource Management launched its new range of client-focused People Services, encompassing HR services, hiring, outsourcing, human capital and change management, with an overall focus on lean services, value for money and measurable results. Spencer Whitbread, managing director of Sabre Resource Management, said, “Just finding somebody for…
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IT to support surge in demand – Capita survey
Less than half of housing providers are prepared for a surge in demand for social housing, despite almost two-thirds expecting the need for social housing to increase, according to a recent survey from Capita Software Services. The survey of housing managers, operations managers and IT managers, carried out during the Chartered Institute of Housing and…
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MHT adopts Unity hybrid mail service
Metropolitan Housing Trust is using a ‘hybrid’ mail service from Unity to print and dispatch rent statement packs for tenants in its 17,000 properties across London. MHT typically prints around 23,000 rent statement packs, each with personalised content and variable page numbers. Until March 2009, MHT used a non-secure mailing house, with the entire operation…
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QlikTech business intelligence from Castle
Castle Computer Services has launched QlikView software, an affordable business intelligence system for the housing sector. QlikView provides super-fast ‘in-memory’ analytical capabilities by dynamically integrating and presenting data from multiple data sources, such as the accounting, housing DLO, HR, payroll and asset management systems, to provide users with a single view of the business. George…
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Sitehelpdesk cuts VAHT queries by 90%
Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has reduced its outstanding IT helpdesk queries by almost 90 per cent following the introduction of Sitehelpdesk.com. Until just over a year ago, VAHT was using an Access database developed in-house to log and track support calls to its IT department. But as VAHT grew, the database’s lack of sophistication…
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