On 22 June 2010, Chancellor George Osborne made his first budget speech to the House of Commons in which he pledged to ‘balance the books’ by 2016, slashing a massive £11 billion from the annual public expenditure bill, with £1.8 billion being earmarked for savings in social housing in this parliamentary term alone. I think…
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General News
Montal launches £10k intranet for housing
Montal has launched a SharePoint intranet solution specifically for housing providers which the company says can be installed in five days and will cost less than £10,000. Based on Montal’s 25-year experience in housing, the Unify out-of-the-box intranet is pre-configured with numerous standard features that would normally need to be developed from scratch. Unify includes…
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Understanding digital exclusion
In recent months, digital exclusion has become something of a hot topic in social housing. Many articles point out the benefits of overcoming the problem and highlight excellent examples of ways in which landlords might achieve this. But before we all head off to form partnerships with the local college and start wiring up high-rise…
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Tenants endorse procurement cost and quality
Cost and quality of service are the most important criteria for tenants involved in their housing provider’s decision-making processes, while innovation and environmental considerations are their lowest priorities, according to a survey from the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Tenants and Residents Organisations of England (TAROE) and the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS). Housing providers…
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Orchard Housing kicks off with charity donation
Orchard marked the launch of its next-generation Orchard Housing system at the CIH conference with a charity table football tournament, raising money for Homeless International. Orchard Housing enables information to be taken from any system and then delivered to staff, customers and contractors in the way they want, irrespective of device, location or time. As…
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ISO 20000 success for Sandwell Homes
Sandwell Homes, an ALMO with 29,000 properties in the West Midlands, has just passed its first annual surveillance audit from Bureau Veritas for the internationally-recognised ISO 20000 certification it achieved last June with the help of Public IT. The audit provides external verification of the quality of the processes Sandwell Homes uses to provide IT…
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