Wakefield and District Housing (WDH), the fifth largest housing organisation in England, has put geographic and spatial data at the core of its operations following its implementation of a Pitney Bowes GIS system. WDH wanted to centralise all of its spatial data in order to create a single resource for real-time asset data across all…
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008 - March 2009
£280m Bassetlaw assets now SORP compliant
Bassetlaw District Council has met its SORP accounting requirements for its £280 million fixed assets with Real Asset Management’s Asset4000 system. The annual Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), which becomes mandatory from March 2009 for local authorities and many other public bodies, changes the reporting process for annual accounts. The overall objective of SORP is…
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Covalent bonds with new customers
Northwards Housing has abandoned spreadsheets and paper plans for its performance management processes and replaced them with a system from Covalent. After the introduction of the new system, Northwards Housing received an Excellent Three Star rating from the Audit Commission in November 2008. Steve Finegan, head of business improvement, Northwards Housing, said, “As well as…
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IPTV – the future of public service delivery?
By 2012 the whole of the UK will have to be ready for the digital switchover. Ensuring that residents living in multi-tenant units can continue to watch basic television may be an expensive and unbudgeted undertaking for housing associations and local authorities, and there is often little choice but to upgrade the existing cable infrastructures….
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Self-service HR for Cardiff Community
A new IT system from Carval has revolutionised Cardiff Community Housing Association’s HR management and improved working practices for its staff. The past few years have been difficult for CCHA as it has responded to changes in the housing sector, complied with new management practices mandated by the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG), and joined the…
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Central Bedfordshire and Midlothian councils sign with IBS OpenSystems
Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) expects to cut its claims processing time by half having signed contracts with IBS OpenSystems for a complete revenues and benefits systems, including document management and workflow, alongside a new citizen self-service portal. The new system is expected to go live this autumn with 130 users. The newly-formed unitary authority, which…
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