At Housing Technology’s ‘Reform IT’ event in September 2013, a common theme emerged regarding the impact of universal credit and the experience from regional trials; and it was the impact on resources, rather than on debt. My notes from a number of presentations on the day include quotes such as “the key is to free…
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Success for Sentinel’s IT apprentice
Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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SDM adds new staff
Technology company SDM Housing has expanded its development team in Cheshire with three new members of staff. Oxford University graduate Christopher Stokes joins the company as a junior programmer after completing a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Jessica Smith joins as part of SDM’s apprenticeship scheme. On a three month secondment from Australia, Geoff Bomford…
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Wolverhampton Homes bags top award for its apprenticeships
Wolverhampton Homes has won a national award for its apprenticeship programme, beating off competition from nationally and internationally acclaimed companies such as Nokia, Vodafone and Asda. The housing provider’s Learning, Employment and Achievement Programme, dubbed ‘LEAP’, was named overall winner of the national Peer Awards for Excellence at a ceremony in London at the end…
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Serif Launches WebPlus X7
For smaller housing providers who either don’t have staff with the necessary specialist IT skills to take care of their online services or don’t have the budget to pay a specialist external agency, WebPlus X7 from Serif might be of interest. Serif said that, “WebPlus X7 is the complete website designer, providing users with everything…
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Yarlington Housing wins national IT award
Further to the story in the last issue about Yarlington Housing’s success with GIS, the housing provider has since won the ‘Best Not for Profit IT Project’ at the UK IT industry awards. Beating companies including Barclay’s Bank, Scottish FA, Disabled Living Foundation,and Cancer Research UK in its category, Yarlington Housing demonstrated its solution to…
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