Croft Technology has completed Bernicia Group’s new multi-site call centre as part of the merger of two of the north of England’s major housing associations. The Bernicia Group was created to provide support services to Cheviot Homes and Wansbeck Homes, previously the housing department of Wansbeck District Council. The partnership provides 8000 rented properties across…
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Customer Management
Better behaviour for Golden Gates
Golden Gates Housing has signed a three-year contract with Civica for its Public Protection software to combat anti-social behaviour. Using the Public Protection system, Golden Gates’ tenant support teams will be able to record and respond quickly to anti-social behaviour incidents affecting the ALMO’s 8900 tenants around Warrington. The software also enables incident records to…
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Customer is king at Hounslow Homes
The introduction at Hounslow Homes of a case management and CRM solution from Lagan has seen a reduction in front-office staff, faster logging of repairs and an improvement to three-star rating. Hounslow Homes, an ALMO managing 16,500 homes for the London Borough of Hounslow since 2002, identified customer service as a critical area to be…
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Coping with anti-social behaviour
The range of responsibilities of social housing providers for handling and managing neighbourhood issues has broadened considerably in recent years. In particular, the focus on anti-social behaviour highlights how the relationship between landlord and tenant is changing; there is an ongoing pressure to remove barriers between departments and to provide ‘joined up’ services. Service providers…
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The integration game
One of the biggest issues that 62 social housing respondents in our customer service survey said they faced in 2008 was managing the integration of new software with existing business systems. Indeed, they have every right to be worried. Organisations are under increasing pressure to update their IT systems in order to meet their operational…
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Deeplake in Wales
United Welsh is using SMS and web technologies to reduce costs while improving tenant response to its choice-based letting programme. The popularity of United Welsh’s ‘Selecta Home’ programme has resulted in the waiting list growing from 3500 tenants to more than 7000 over the past two years. This significantly increased the costs and internal resources…
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