Sovereign Housing Association is implementing new mapping technology from Esri to support its business transformation programme, including a planned increase in the properties under its management from 38,000 at the moment to 50,000 by 2018. The three-phase GIS development programme started in September 2014. Phase one is now live, which included training more than 500…
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General News
Curo Housing wins gold for its staff
Curo Housing has been awarded the Investors in People gold standard, joining the top seven per cent of accredited organisations across the UK. Paul Devoy, head of Investors in People, said, “We’d like to congratulate Curo on its gold standard. Such a high level of accreditation is the sign of great people management practices and…
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North, South, East & West – Quartering the UK housing sector
Two recent surveys have shown that there is a North-South divide over the effects of welfare reform and an East-West divide over tenants’ satisfaction with their housing provider. Big Tenant Survey shows East-West divide in landlord satisfaction Housing Partners’ ‘Big Tenant Survey’ has shown that there is an East-West divide in UK tenant satisfaction. Using…
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Magenta Living’s apprentices ‘get in and go far’
As regular readers will know, Housing Technology is a big fan of housing providers’ apprenticeship schemes, so we’re delighted to report that Magenta Living has taken on nine new apprentices, from a field of over 400 applicants. All of Magenta’s apprentices started in time to join the government’s ‘get in. go far’ apprenticeship campaign, which…
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VerseOne and Gwalia herald the launch of .wales domains
VerseOne has helped its long-time customer Grŵp Gwalia Cyf become one of the first adopters of the new top level website domain for Wales, ‘.wales’. The new domain, along with its Welsh counterpart .cymru, was launched in September 2014. As a Welsh housing provider, Gwalia is representing its sector as part of a select group…
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Iomart supports Wheatley’s sporting ambitions
Data centre service provider Iomart is supporting Wheatley Group’s project to provide sports kit to clubs in disadvantaged communities in central Scotland. Beacon Warriors Badminton Club, in one of GHA’s communities, was the first of 18 winners to be announced. Youngsters had previously been forced to take turns to train as the club did not…
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