Housing Centre UK, a mutual exchange service for social and affordable housing and part-ownership schemes, is now offering free registration for housing providers across the UK. The site is being developed in the run up to the government’s welfare reforms and the introduction of universal credit. By registering, housing providers will be able to showcase…
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Newlon Housing supporting digital inclusion with Student@Home
Student@Home, a social business employing IT students to provide technology support and training to computer users and small businesses, has recently partnered with Newlon Fusion, the community regeneration partner of Newlon Housing Trust. Student@Home is contracted to deliver up to 80 one-to-one support sessions to residents in their own homes. IT student workers will provide…
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Are the barbarians at the gate?
The winds of change are blowing through IT and the housing sector – many people would say that’s a good thing and there are those people who would say that it’s ‘situation normal’ in IT. While change is what makes our lives interesting, this period of change is as much about culture and attitude as…
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Majority of the public sector lacks BYOD strategy
A recent survey by Acronis, a data backup and disaster recovery company, found that 87 per cent of public sector organisations have no formal strategies to deal with the bring your own device (BYOD) trend. 11 per cent of the local authorities surveyed did have a BYOD strategy but none of the central government departments…
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Telecoms and ICT with a conscience from Social Telecoms
Social Telecoms CIC has launched two new services covering telephony and internet access specifically to help housing providers support their digitally-excluded tenants in the run up to the introduction of universal credit later this year. For its first service, Social Telecoms has an ‘open book’ approach to telecoms pricing which means that it charges all…
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‘No match, no fee’ service from House Exchange
House Exchange, a not-for-profit mutual exchange service, is letting tenants who want to swap their homes advertise their properties online without any upfront fees. Tenants now only pay for the service once they have found a potential swap. Around 1,800 tenants swap homes each month using House Exchange. Kim Doran from House Exchange said, “We…
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