From Bill Gill, BG Audit & Consultancy & Mark Hobart, Managing Director, Clearview Systems. The BG Audit and Clearview Systems report is available from www.clearviewbusiness.com Sir – Housing regulation is now clearly focused on risk, assurance and governance. The crucial juggling act is for organisations to remain financially viable while taking on more risk. Rigorous…
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Risky Business
From Neil Clark, Managing director, Business Markets Direct, Easynet. Sir – Protecting vast amounts of financial and personal data, integrating disparate sites, facilitating remote access and managing employees’ use of applications are all serious concerns for a housing provider. Addressing these concerns while reducing cost and improving operational efficiency are part and parcel of a…
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Risk management and technology in social housing
From Chris Potter, Director of Uniclass, ROCC. Sir – Risk comes in a number of categories within the social housing sector; it could be operational, financial, legal or even political risk. For example, any housing provider owes a duty of care to its field workers to inform them of potential hazards they may come in…
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Real-time risk at Northwards Housing with Covalent
Northwards Housing has implemented a risk management system from Covalent that provides assurance on overall performance and automated alerts on deviations from expected performance. Rather than having a risk register that was always out of date, creating additional risks itself, Northwards Housing now has real-time risk reporting. Before its implementation of Covalent Risk, Northwards Housing…
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Home Group gains gold from Investors in People
Home Group has achieved the Investors in People gold award by meeting 165 evidence requirements across the organisation. The gold award reflects the improvements and changes which have helped Home Group go beyond the Investors in People Standard it achieved in 2011. IiP assessors highlighted Home Group’s ‘leadership pathways’ programme which prepares managers for more…
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Watford Community Housing wins IiP Gold award with Georgia Group
A high-impact leadership programme for managers at Watford Community Housing Trust has helped the organisation secure a prestigious gold accreditation from Investors in People. Assessors for IiP praised the WCHT’s culture of continuous development, particularly the leadership course created by the Georgia Group, a Cheshire-based leadership consultancy. The leadership programme has been designed to address…
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