Housing providers and local authorities have been invited by the housing team in Capita’s property business to participate in a six-month research programme to test how behavioural science can improve rent collection and reduce rent arrears. The research will investigate how intervention techniques affect the decisions tenants make. Several organisations will each try a different…
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Idox revamps Trafford’s business applications
Trafford Council went live earlier this year with a range of business solutions from Idox designed to replace its aging legacy systems for planning, building control, land charges and gazetteers. The council reported that one of the challenges when migrating from one system to another wasn’t the volume of data in its legacy system but…
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DXW rallies SMEs around G-Cloud and DS2
In February around 25 SME G-Cloud providers, led by web services provider DXW, united in their dismay at the government’s latest agile procurement initiative, Digital Services 2 (DS2) and lobbied for change. They felt that the framework, in theory designed to enable the public sector to engage with agile service providers to build digital services…
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Allpay joins SEC bill payments framework
Housing providers and local authority members of the South East Consortium can now access the latest bill payment systems from Allpay without the need to tender following the launch of a new procurement framework. SEC has awarded Allpay a place on the framework, allowing its 21 members of housing providers and local authorities to access…
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CHI brings affordable IT to tenants
The Connected Housing Initiative has just launched a new web resource to help housing providers find the right hardware, software and web connectivity solutions for their tenants. The CHI is a collaboration of 13 housing providers working with the Government Digital Service, National Housing Federation and digital skills provider, Digital Unite. Their aim is to…
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1st Touch launches mobile working for smaller landlords
Smaller housing providers can now access the same mobile working capabilities as their larger counterparts following the launch by 1st Touch of a new package for up to 15 users and three of its mobile working modules. Along with full implementation and support, qualifying housing providers can choose from over ten individual modules, such as…
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