JMC IT has appointed John Blackburn as its senior technical architect to support the technology provider’s work with some of the North West’s largest housing providers, including Mosscare Housing and Harvest Housing. Blackburn joins JMC IT from CNT where he spent over 15 years working on IT and telephony systems for housing providers. Andrew Burgess,…
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General News
Digital inclusion at Peaks & Plains with Sigma Consulting
Peaks & Plains Housing Trust has just started a digital inclusion programme for its tenants with help from Sigma Consulting Solutions. The programme, which is being run free of charge by Sigma, is in response to Race Online 2012’s initiative ‘to make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the…
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CarelineUK, Cirrus & Tunstall join NHC
The Northern Housing Consortium has added telecare and telehealth providers CarelineUK, Cirrus and Tunstall Healthcare as suppliers to its national ‘assisted living’ framework. Nicola Hewell, procurement and contracts manager, National Housing Consortium, said, “Assistive technologies are vital in allowing people to live with dignity, security and independence. Our assisted living framework allows our members to…
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Walsall Housing and Vale of Aylesbury gain NCC accreditation
Walsall Housing Group and Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust have both been award the National Computing Centre’s IT Department Accreditation (ITDA). The ITDA is a business improvement programme which examines an IT department’s performance against over 100 common controls, enabling the department to compare and understand its own strengths and weaknesses and make improvements if…
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Martha Lane Fox launches Housing Technology’s ‘Digital by Default’ report
Housing Technology held a reception at the Houses of Parliament at the beginning of December 2011 to mark the official launch its ‘Digital by Default 2012’ report, with Martha Lane Fox, the government’s digital champion, giving the keynote presentation. Kindly hosted by Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwin, the afternoon reception also included presentations…
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Five-year Taff Housing contract for MidlandHR
Following its signing of a five-year contract with MidlandHR, Cardiff-based Taff Housing Association has gone live with a new HR and ‘talent management’ solution. The implementation of the iTrent system, which is hosted in MidlandHR’s secure private cloud facility, currently comprises modules for employee and manager self-service, absences and HR. Jane Evans, HR manager, Taff…
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