Social housing properties across Peterborough have been transformed into a ‘smart city’ pilot project between Cross Keys Homes and CityFibre. The project will explore how a network of sensors deployed throughout Cross Keys Homes’ properties could monitor health, safety and environmental factors as well as deliver cost savings. The trial at three residential locations in…
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Flintshire Council deploys RentSense
Flintshire County Council has bought Mobysoft’s RentSense software to help mitigate the effects of full-service universal credit and give its housing team more time to support tenants. Flintshire was the first local authority in Wales to move to full-service UC in April 2017. The effects have been far reaching for the council, with workloads increasing…
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Protecting lone workers… A day in the life at Thirteen Group
Sarah Johnstone has been a neighbourhood coordinator at Thirteen Group for over eight years. Here she gives a snapshot of her day and describes how the lone working device she uses helps her to feel safe when working on her own in Middlesbrough. To try and describe a typical day is difficult because one of…
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Parkhead Housing using Decision Time
Parkhead Housing is now using Decision Time’s suite of governance tools to help them to structure and manage their meetings, encourage proactive risk management and monitor their organisational performance. James Strang, chief executive of Parkhead Housing and president of the Chartered Institute of Housing, said, “Sound governance is absolutely crucial to any successful organisation. How…
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Northgate buys Snook
Northgate Public Services has announced the acquisition of Snook, a service design agency specialising in the redesign of public and private services to better meet users’ needs. Stephen Callaghan, CEO, Northgate Public Services, said, “Snook’s reputation for designing products and services that are more accessible, relevant and focused on people’s needs is unrivalled in the…
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Civica’s Cx Regulatory Services at Peterborough Council
Peterborough City Council (PCC) has chosen Civica’s cloud-based Cx Regulatory Services software to manage its regulatory service functions in a new five-year deal. PCC provides a shared service for Cambridgeshire County Council and Rutland County Council. Implementing Cx Regulatory Services will help to streamline processes across the three councils and improve service delivery based on…
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