Wakefield & District Housing is spending around £150 million on improving its housing portfolio, using Cadcorp’s mapping software to inform its spending plans. WDH’s investment decisions are based on a whole dwelling, whole street and whole estate approach. Using Cadcorp SIS WebMap, WDH has created numerous interactive maps, informing teams across its organisation about the…
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Wakefield & District Housing on the move with Capita
Capita has helped Wakefield & District Housing improve productivity by a third following the introduction of its mobile working software. With responsibility for maintaining the homes of more than 20 per cent of the local population, WDH deals with a wide variety of tenant enquiries every day, ranging from the urgent to the routine. As…
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Free wi-fi deal for WDH tenants
Wakefield and District Housing has partnered with CommunityUK.net to introduce a free wi-fi network across the Wakefield area. The housing provider wants to get all of its 60,000 tenants online by 2020, with the wi-fi network planned to reach all of its 31,000 homes. WDH and CommunityUK.net have just begun a technical trial of a…
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Capita supports WDH’s tenants’ well-being
Wakefield & District Housing is using Capita Support software to improve its previously paper-based support services operations. Dedicated to support services for vulnerable people, Capita Support offers outcome-based management of information across housing-related support, employment, education and training and sheltered housing. A pilot implementation of Capita Support went live in September 2015 and is now…
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GIS in housing with Cadcorp
Cadcorp sponsored two recent GIS and mapping events in London and Manchester, with speakers from L&Q, Greenfields Community Housing, Wakefield & District Housing and Emapsite. Graham Naggs from L&Q explained how GIS can be easily funded on the back of the cost savings made in negotiating grounds maintenance contracts alone, but he also pointed out…
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Capita’s £475,000 mobile deal with Wakefield & District Housing
In one of the largest mobile implementations in the social housing sector, Wakefield and District Housing is implementing Capita TotalMobile across its operations to allow employees to access all of the systems they use in the office while out visiting tenants. The contract is valued at £475,000 over five years. Following the introduction of the…
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