Circle Housing has launched five short films to celebrate the benefits of apprenticeship schemes in the housing sector. Each film (online at www.circleopportunities.org.uk) follows an apprentice from Circle Housing as they complete a day’s work at the organisation. Samantha Caunt was one of the apprentices to take part after swapping places with Circle Housing’s chief…
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Experian partners with Circle Housing Circle 33 to tackle fraud
Circle Housing Circle 33, part of the Circle Housing Group, is working with Experian to filter and screen tenancy records of its 8,400 properties using a data-matching technique to flag tenant records or properties which might present a high risk of fraud. Although the project was reported as costing less than £5,000, six months after…
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Circle & Hereford Housing first to adopt new Valueworks software
Valueworks has just launched its Gateway Mapping Tool to provide a link between housing providers’ supply chains and their finance and housing management systems to drive further efficiency improvements in their procurement processes. Its first customers include Circle Housing and Hereford Housing. At Circle Housing, Valueworks is implementing the Gateway Mapping Tool as part of…
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Circle’s DLO team on the move with Consilium
Circle Housing Group has just awarded a five-year contract to Consilium for a mobile working system comprising the TotalMobile and TotalRepairs products for its newly-merged DLO team. The contract is worth almost £350,000, with implementation of the new system started last month. Circle is merging four of its direct labour organisations (DLO) into a single…
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Circle cuts £130k with Claranet
Circle has completed the migration of its network infrastructure to a hosted service at Claranet’s datacentre, with 12 offices and over 200 Circle sites now connected by an MPLS network. With the project starting in 2010 and having taken around 18 months to complete, the new Claranet hosted infrastructure is expected to save Circle around…
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Circle Anglia uses First Adapt procurement maps
Circle Anglia is using procurement maps from First Adapt to unite different parts of its organisation and enforce centralised procurement policies. James Savill, procurement manager, Circle Anglia, said, “With First Adapt’s procurement maps, we can ensure that all of our procurement policies and any associated documents are accessible from our intranet. The maps are visual…
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