East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL) has developed a new subcontractor work allocation payments system (Swaps) in conjunction with Leeds City Council and Barclaycard. The new system makes it easier for the housing provider to allocate jobs to its roster of subcontractors and speed up the necessary payment processes. Swaps comprises two components. The first…
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Finance Management
Hammersmith & Fulham on target to save £1 million with Experian
Hammersmith & Fulham is using Experian’s fraud detection and data-matching techniques to analyse the tenancy records of its 12,000 properties. This analysis, combined the local knowledge of the council’s housing staff, led to the targeting of around 300 high-risk properties and has already saved almost £700,000, with an anticipated total saving of £1 million by…
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96 per cent of landlords worried about universal credit
The latest quarterly survey from the National Landlords Association has found that 96 per cent of the 500 landlords surveyed were concerned about the introduction of universal credit. Other related concerns included arrears avoidance (64 per cent) and minimising voids (56 per cent). While it should be noted that the NLA represents the private residential…
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RTI and auto-enrolment system from MidlandHR
To help housing providers meet two of the largest and most complex legislative changes in recent years, MidlandHR has launched a real-time information (RTI) and auto-enrolment (AE) solution. MidlandHR customers went live on HMRC’s RTI pilot project in 2012, involving around 40,000 employees and pensioners across 20 payrolls. The RTI and Pensions Reform initiatives are…
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Festival saves £170,000 with Clearview
Festival Housing began using Clearview in 2005, upgrading to a later version in 2009 and more recently completed a project to automate the majority of the KPIs in the Clearview performance scorecard module by populating them direct from the source systems. Lee Parkes, performance manager, Festival Housing, said, “To meet our performance needs, we need…
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Rooftop performs with Clearview
Rooftop has been using the Clearview software since 2007 and since then it has achieved both a three-star and excellent rating from the Audit Commission and a gold accreditation from Investors in People. In both instance the assessors commented on how effectively the Clearview systems were used by Rooftop. Sheila Morris, human resources director, Rooftop…
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