Hyde Group has become the first housing provider to use LookingLocal’s BetterOff online platform which brings benefits and employment together in a single digital space. BetterOff, developed by Kirklees Council’s digital team LookingLocal, combines benefits eligibility, applications, appeals and comprehensive employment tools. LookingLocal said that it helps to ensure tenants are aware of and can…
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Homes for Haringey’s LookingLocal app
Homes for Haringey has launched a new mobile app to streamline its repairs processes as well as improve the overall digital offering it provides to tenants. Developed by Kirklees Council-owned LookingLocal, Homes for Haringey’s new mobile app allows tenants to easily report housing repairs and estate issues, as well as provide easy links to pay…
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LookingLocal helps West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire County Council is using the LetsHelpYou service from LookingLocal to encourage better engagement with the private rented sector and to make the affordable housing market more accessible. LetsHelpYou is a free service for both landlords and tenants, created by Kirklees Council-owned developers LookingLocal with funding help from DWP. The service offers landlords a…
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LookingLocal partners with EntitledTo for welfare reform
LookingLocal has now added a responsive benefits calculator from EntitledTo to its MyCouncil and MyLandlord apps in order to help tenants understand the effects of the government’s welfare reforms on their benefits. The LookingLocal apps offer a digital platform for both landlords and local authorities to communicate directly with tenants and the local public on…
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Kirklees introduces BetterOff universal benefits tool
A new approach to welfare advice and benefit applications has been launched by Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire. Not only digitising ‘high-volume’ benefit forms and embedding real-world advice, the BetterOff solution combines benefits with employment advice and thousands of job vacancies all within a single web portal. BetterOff was designed in response to cuts in…
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Plus Dane offers Looking Local apps
Looking Local has completed the development of two new apps supporting health and financial wellbeing for Plus Dane tenants, encompassing both Plus Dane’s various housing services as well as complementary services from external government agencies. In addition to services such as repairs reporting, paying rent and requesting appointments, Plus Dane’s new digital solution provides support…
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