Alliance and Leicester Commercial Bank has launched a prepaid card scheme for housing benefit payments. A&L’s prepaid card payments solution is being implemented following the Government’s scheme to transfer payment of housing benefit to claimants, as opposed to their landlords. Local authorities are expected to save up to 75 per cent of housing benefit processing…
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Tenants help Broadacres with new web site
Broadacres Housing Association went live in July with a new web site for its tenants, based on the direct involvement of the tenants themselves in the development process. Steve Towers, managing director, Broadacres Housing Association, said, “We know that involving people in managing their homes and estates is vital to delivering better housing services, so…
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One Vision Housing becomes 15th customer for Covalent
Covalent Software has just signed contracts with One Vision Housing to provide the Bootle-based housing association with performance management software. This follows earlier customer wins during 2008 with Glasgow Housing Association, Chester & District Housing Trust, Sutton Housing Partnership, Havebury Housing Partnership and Halton Housing Trust. Covalent’s software monitors all aspects of corporate performance, including…
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Counting the cost of server consolidation
While finance directors in the housing sector may not have a deep understanding of what an IT server actually does, they are more than likely to know how much it costs to buy, run and maintain a server, and by how much it will depreciate. What they probably don’t know is that nearly all servers…
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One-touch security for Incommunities
Incommunities has implemented flexible and secure remote working for its staff using a solution from AppGate Network Security. Incommunities, which manages 22,000 homes around Bradford, West Yorkshire, wanted to let remote workers and staff work when away from the office without compromising its infrastructure or data security. It also needed a single control point to…
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On best behaviour at Sandwell Homes
Sandwell Homes expects to improve its management of anti-social behaviour incidents using software from Tagish. The ALMO, which manages around 115,000 properties on behalf of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, had no automated system to track and retain ASB data. A variety of Sandwell Homes staff needed access to the ASB data,…
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