Saxon Weald has spent around £400,000 on a new telecare system from Tunstall Healthcare at its Downlands Court ‘extra care’ retirement housing in West Sussex. Tunstall’s Communicall Connect system now allows staff to communicate with residents around the clock through speech modules installed in both individual flats and communal areas. A range of sensors increase…
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Bron Afon gets Virtualboardroom
Bron Afon Community Housing in South Wales has revolutionised the production of its monthly ‘board packs’ using web-based Virtualboardroom software from Perivan. Bron Afon holds monthly board, staffing and audit committee meetings; for the main board meetings, the 150-page board pack has to be distributed to 55 people. In the past, each document in the…
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How smart are your houses?
Managing the energy consumption of your housing stock is a challenge that, with legislative changes, will become one of the critical issues of the next decade. The recent Ofgen / DECC consultation is still being reviewed with an announcement expected in early 2011. The expectation is that smart metering technologies will play a major part…
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National Housing Federation achieves NCC accreditation
The National Housing Federation’s IT department has achieved accreditation to the National Computing Centre’s Standard for IT. The Federation’s IT department is responsible for the provision of IT services to 150 staff as well as delivering ICT services to the Federation’s conference centre in London and its regional offices in Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. Rob…
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IT rental – Is it right for you?
Joanna Sedley-Burke, business development director at Sovereign Business Integration, considers how an IT rental model could help housing providers cut costs. Are housing providers wasting valuable capital resources on purchasing IT equipment? In light of the government’s recent housing budget cuts and the pressure on cost-savings across all public sector organisations, it is increasingly important…
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Securing your future through technology
Necessity is the mother of invention, never more so than when the government of the day presents you with budget cuts of 25 per cent or more. Accustomed to regarding their ICT systems as tiresome obligations that soak up money, housing providers need to start thinking of these systems as weapons in their survival armoury…
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