Despite the patchy start to many of the universal credit pilot projects (see page five), welfare reform is going ahead and it does look likely that universal credit will be introduced, albeit in a rather longer timescale than originally planned and despite reported glitches in the DWP’s IT systems.
Since there’s no escape from the impact of welfare reform and universal credit, we would encourage those responsible for dealing with the IT and business changes in their organisations to come along to our Reform IT 2013 event in September (see page 24) at the amazing BT Tower in central London.
Reform IT 2013 will focus on the convergence of technology, universal credit and welfare reform, and digital inclusion. We have speakers confirmed from Affinity Sutton, Ashton Pioneer Homes, GreenSquare Group, Orbit Housing, Origin Housing, Wakefield & District Housing and Yorkshire Housing but with space for only 85 people at the top of the BT Tower, numbers are limited so reserve your place soon at housingtechdev.wpengine.com/reformit.
