Magna Housing Group has appointed David Connoley as their new group head of IT. His previous experience includes working at Barnet Group, Viridian Housing and Moat Housing, as well as companies such as Marks & Spencer, Barclays and Virgin Atlantic. Mobile working at Magna is expected to be one of the first areas to be…
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General News
Mears’ apprentices – You’re hired!
Continuing Housing Technology’s support for apprenticeship schemes in the housing sector, we are delighted to report that Mears Group has just taken on 11 new apprentices from Gateshead College. The new intake brings the total number of apprentices working for Mears in Gateshead to more than 30. Five of the new apprentices – Michael Rodgers,…
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National Housing Federation on board with eShare
The National Housing Federation is using eShare’s BoardPacks board portal and governance software for its board meetings in order to reduce the time and cost of printing board papers, having originally discovered eShare at its own Company Secretaries Conference. The Federation is using the BoardPacks app and meeting management module. Stephen Bull, head of governance…
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Circle celebrates its apprentices on film
Circle Housing has launched five short films to celebrate the benefits of apprenticeship schemes in the housing sector. Each film (online at www.circleopportunities.org.uk) follows an apprentice from Circle Housing as they complete a day’s work at the organisation. Samantha Caunt was one of the apprentices to take part after swapping places with Circle Housing’s chief…
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Learning to fly at Housing Technology 2014
From Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting. Blog: tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.co.uk This is a slightly abridged version of a posting written by Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting, on his ‘Tony Smith: That Housing IT Guy’ blog (details below) following last month’s Housing Technology 2014 conference. It didn’t have…
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Universal credit – Still too much taxation?
Aside from Housing Technology’s continuing scepticism about the IT systems underpinning the ongoing implementation of universal credit, one of the little reported benefits of universal credit is how it will reduce the effective taxation on claimants’ earnings from almost 100 per cent to around 65 per cent. Or to put it another way, at present…
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