Two councils in Derbyshire and Staffordshire have joined forces in a strategic alliance in order to save £3 million on their combined purchasing arrangements, following a partnership with Northgate Public Services to update their procurement activities. Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and High Peak Borough Council have already saved a total of £620,000 a year and,…
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Finance Management
Victory for Castle
Victory Housing Trust has chosen Castle Computer Services to carry out a major upgrade of its finance and reporting systems. Castle will implement Infor SunSystems, along with Infor’s budgeting and forecasting, expense@work and purchase2pay software, Asset 4000 from Real Asset Management, and QlikView’s Business Intelligence. Nathan Thompson, finance manager, Victory Housing Trust, said, “We’ve had…
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Magenta Living’s asset team wins ‘Project of the Year’
Magenta Living’s asset management team were awarded ‘project of the year’ at the National Housing Maintenance Forum’s recent annual dinner. The housing provider won the award for its development and implementation of a post-decency investment strategy called Project Save, from which emerged the need for neighbourhood regeneration as well as addressing the challenge of fuel…
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Capita researches behaviour change to tackle rent arrears
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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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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Asset tracking is not just for Christmas, Easter or Year-End
From IT equipment, including laptops and mobile phones, to furniture, fixtures and fittings, assets within housing providers are on the move. It may sound like a scene from Dr. Who, but the reality is that the assets owned by housing providers are not only deployed within the physical boundaries of head offices but increasingly in…
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