Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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Welfare reform – Taking credit where it’s due
With just over a year until universal credit and its associated welfare reforms are expected to be introduced, Housing Technology gauged the housing sector’s opinion on the likely results of this massive change to finance in social housing and its IT impacts. The planned introduction of universal credit will have a very direct impact on…
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All change – Microsoft’s licensing terms for social housing
As many of you will already know, Microsoft announced several months ago that it was likely to make significant changes to the licensing terms available to housing associations and RSLs for its software. Just before going to press with this issue, Housing Technology interviewed a number of leading housing providers and a housing consultancy on…
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Licensed to bill
From: Peter Davis, Head of IT services, Sentinel Housing Association Sir – It seems that we are mourning the end of the agreements with Microsoft that allowed housing providers to purchase licences at academic prices. Over the past few weeks, there has been some arguing that this was an anomaly that was being corrected so…
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