Welfare reform, lack of housing supply and the increasing gap between income and housing costs are having the biggest impact on front-line housing roles according to new research. The UK-wide research across over 1,000 tenants and housing professionals, commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Housing and Wheatley Group, found that front-line workers want their employers…
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038 - March 2014
Will the new data protection rules expose your insecurities?
From Paul Wood, assistant director of Montal IT Consulting. A survey done by the UK Information Commissioners office in May 2013 among 506 staff who described themselves as having responsibility for Data Protection showed that not one of them could accurately describe the effect the new European legislation would have on the current Data Protection…
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Risk or no risk? – We decide
From Mandy Dunstan, head of business transformation at The Barnet Group. As part of Housing Technology’s series of articles from The Barnet Group and their IT transformation, this issue we’re looking at how the housing provider deals with risk. It’s impossible to embark on an IT transformation project of this size without factoring in risk….
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Keystone launches risk management tool
Keystone, well known for its asset management systems, has added a risk management product to its portfolio. Keystone Risk Management (KRM) focuses on meeting any property risk management need, but is expected to be mainly used for fire risk and legionella monitoring. Rob Hewes, client relationship manager, Keystone, said, “We are naturally influenced by our…
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Places for People goes virtual with Open Reality to save £730,000
Places for People has reported that it has saved £730,000 in capital costs and £100,000 in annual operational costs following its introduction of Citrix thin-client infrastructure from Open Reality and its partner Bright Cloud. Places for People’s move from desktop PCs to thin clients was prompted by a doubling of its workforce to 3,000 staff…
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MET’s security seminar at Jaguar Land Rover factory
MET is running a security seminar with Assa Abloy and The Bloomfield Group at Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Birmingham on April 2. The seminar will address the complete spectrum of security from new security systems to protect facilities through to cyber security. Ian Vickers, managing director, MET, said, “Security should be the number one…
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