Home Farm Trust has adopted Riverbed’s wide-area data services solution to support its residential users with learning difficulties. The charity, which provides residential care, supported living and other services to more than 1000 people with learning difficulties throughout the UK, strongly encourages the use of technology by its users. HFT particularly focuses on electronic diaries…
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Yorkshire Housing set for digital
Yorkshire Housing has been awarded the ‘Homes Set for Digital’ accreditation from Digital UK, following its programme to upgrade all communal television aerials in time for the digital switchover planner for 2011. All properties owned by Yorkshire Housing, which share a communal aerial system, will be fully prepared to receive digital television when the switchover…
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Housing benefit cards from A&L
Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank has launched a prepaid card scheme for housing benefit payments. A&L’s prepaid card payments solution is being implemented following the Government’s scheme to transfer payment of housing benefit to claimants, as opposed to their landlords. Local authorities are expected to save up to 75 per cent of housing benefit processing…
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Tenants help Broadacres with new web site
Broadacres Housing Association went live in July with a new web site for its tenants, based on the direct involvement of the tenants themselves in the development process. Steve Towers, managing director, Broadacres Housing Association, said, “We know that involving people in managing their homes and estates is vital to delivering better housing services, so…
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One Vision Housing becomes 15th customer for Covalent
Covalent Software has just signed contracts with One Vision Housing to provide the Bootle-based housing association with performance management software. This follows earlier customer wins during 2008 with Glasgow Housing Association, Chester & District Housing Trust, Sutton Housing Partnership, Havebury Housing Partnership and Halton Housing Trust. Covalent’s software monitors all aspects of corporate performance, including…
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Counting the cost of server consolidation
While finance directors in the housing sector may not have a deep understanding of what an IT server actually does, they are more than likely to know how much it costs to buy, run and maintain a server, and by how much it will depreciate. What they probably don’t know is that nearly all servers…
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