Author: Guy Murphy, Gas Tag Landlords and housing providers are being encouraged to arrange and carry out annual gas safety checks as early as possible to help mitigate against any potential issues caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. There have been no changes to regulations regarding the repair and maintenance of gas pipework, flues, and appliances. Landlords…
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Free tech services to help the housing sector
Author: Dave Loudon, DtL Creative We’re working with several tech companies to offer free support to the social housing sector to manage during the Covid-19 outbreak. As part of our Blue Banana innovation lab we’ve got several companies offering their technology to housing associations free of charge. For example, if you need help with managing the reduction…
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Protect your IT suppliers
Author: Chris Cliffe, CJC Procurement Quite rightly, housing associations are focused on supporting their employees and sustaining services to their residents and tenants at this time. The third side of the triangle is the sector’s suppliers, and we’ve heard the term ‘supply chain’ used a lot in the last few days, not least in respect…
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Help housing providers communicate with tenants
As a provider of digital solutions to the Social Housing sector, VerseOne Group is offering free ‘no strings attached’ six-month licences for its Vocoll for Social Housing digital assistant and collaboration software platform. Completely secure and optimised for Microsoft Azure, Vocoll for Social Housing lets your teams collaborate and provide knowledge and expertise from anywhere, on…
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Conferencing for housing boards
Author: Duncan Aitkins, Arneway Housing Co-op Arneway’s board has signed up to Zoom for conferencing. This was suggested by a colleague who works in the care sector as follows: “We have successfully been using ‘Zoom’ for video conferencing within our Primary Care Network; the basic version is free, allows meetings for up to 100 participants but…
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Introduction to Housing Technology’s coronavirus blogging service
As per the email that many of you will have received about our new blogging service, its purpose is simply to act as an informal ‘clearing house’ for any IT-based ideas, tips, suggestions, etc relating to how housing providers and their associated IT suppliers are using IT to mitigate the effects of coronavirus on their…
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