A recent fire at a student residence in Bolton provided a stark reminder on the need for action for better fire safety standards. It’s been over two years since the tragedy of Grenfell Tower and hundreds of blocks are still covered in flammable ACM cladding. In June 2019, the Independent Review of Building Regulation and…
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Desperate times but not desperate measures
They say desperate times call for desperate measures but I couldn’t disagree more. Desperate times call for calm, they call for plans and positive action and looking across the housing sector, I’m inspired to see this type of approach coming to the fore. Housing providers and technology companies continue to provide quality services to their…
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Re-imagining digital
By the time you read this, will we be back at work and heading towards normal? At the moment, none of us knows, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be more proactive and anticipate more disruption and consider how technology can help. An economic shock will follow; experts are arguing whether it is a V-…
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Itica’s IT survey raises £2,000 for The Big Issue
During March, Itica ran a survey on ‘The future of ICT in social housing’, donating £10 for each fully completed submission plus a further donation to bring the total to £2,000 for The Big Issue Foundation. Stephen Robertson, CEO, The Big Issue Foundation, said, “We would like to thank Itica for a very generous donation…
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We’re in this together…
What a very strange world we are living in right now. As I type this, I am sitting opposite my son who is doing his school work online, I have a daughter upstairs who is now not sitting her GCSEs and is missing her friends and I have a wife who is a frontline medical…
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Using IT to tackle our biggest challenge
We began testing our strategies for full remote working several weeks before the government announced lockdown. With our systems in place, our entire team was encouraged to work remotely a week before the lockdown order. Business as usual monitoring was carried out over the first week to ensure everything we do could be done and…
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