Plentific has signed seven new housing customers for its real-time software – Change Housing, Hyde Group, Longhurst Group, Midland Heart, Platform Housing, Phoenix Community Housing and SW9. Hyde Group approached Plentific to in order to achieve year-round utilisation of its internal workforce alongside ad-hoc demand for specialist external contractors through the Plentific marketplace. Plentific is…
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Longhurst Group
Changing chairs at Bath Group
Radian Group’s assistant director of technology and innovation, Sheila Starr, has taken over the chair of the Bath Group from Longhurst Group’s director of IT, Darren Ryland. The Bath Group (Business and Technology in Housing) was set up six years ago with the aim of providing a way for larger housing providers (those with 10,000+…
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Fit for the future at Longhurst Group
Fit for the future. That’s been the phrase on everybody’s lips at Longhurst Group over the last year. We’re confident that we’re fit-for-purpose but the challenge we’ve faced as an ICT team is how to also ensure that we’re ready for what is yet to come. So how can you prepare for the unknown? In…
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Longhurst deploys SaaS-based Rentsense for welfare reform
Longhurst Group has invested in Mobysoft’s Rentsense to help it mitigate the effects of welfare reform as well as create efficiencies to help it deal with the government-imposed one per cent rent cuts. As part of a review across its whole organisation, Longhurst Group, comprising Friendship Care and Housing, Spire Homes and L&H Homes as…
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The benefits of information governance
Sir – Many people regard information governance as another potential compliance issue; something that drains resources as you try to jump through legislative and regulatory hoops. If that’s your position, then perhaps you are failing to see the potential of information governance as a means to drive change, increase efficiency and just generally do things…
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Civica web services & digital inclusion at Longhurst
Longhurst Group’s senior project manager for business improvement, Gavin Black, reports on their experiences as one of the first users of Civica’s web services to create a bespoke tenant portal. The sector is awash with tales of welfare reform and tenant support, and barely a meeting goes by where value for money isn’t identified as…
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