North Lincolnshire Homes has been running a six-month pilot project to deliver an innovative broadband service to some of its tenants in Scunthorpe as part of its plan as an official Race Online 2012 partner to improve digital inclusion among its tenants. NLH is using the latest LTE (long-term evolution) technology to deliver a wireless…
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CarelineUK monitor’s Merlin and Raglan’s personal alarms
Merlin Housing Society and Raglan Housing Association have both signed with CarelineUK for the provision of personal alarm monitoring. CarelineUK’s three-year deal with Merlin will cover more than 2,000 telecare users and the Raglan contract will cover 2,400 users.
Complaints drop by 85% at Accent Peerless with Jabbakam
A new web-based CMTV (community-monitored TV) system from Jabbakam has been used by Surrey-based Accent Peerless since October 2011 to combat anti-social behaviour. The Jabbakam system, which cost just £1,250, is intended to replace traditional CCTV with a social media-friendly surveillance system which is as simple to use as Facebook. Jabbakam provides real-time images, historical…
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Shian Housing turns filing cabinets into treadmills with Invu
Shian Housing Association completed the implementation in February 2012 of a new document management system from Invu in order to speed up its invoicing processes and give staff faster access to documentation and information. As an ancillary benefit, Shian’s two dedicated filing storage rooms were freed up and have now been converted into a staff…
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Do your documents pay rent?
With the number of properties owned or managed by housing providers in the UK now exceeding two million, it isn’t hard to visualise the millions of paper documents being produced and stored by these associations on a daily basis. In many cases a document may be read only once, filed away and forgotten about and…
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Service charges – What has the accounts system ever done for us?
Why do housing officers so often photocopy service charge invoices and even build their own spreadsheets? This is madness – it’s wasting their time and the company’s money, and they’re simply not experts at it. So why do they do it, and how can we change this? There are four main reasons: They don’t trust…
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