Rooftop Housing’s investment in a technologically-innovative, customer-focused IT system proved to be the perfect opportunity to review procurement best practice, before negotiations had even begun. Having been instructed to advise them on their contract with their IT supplier, we started the process by considering which key issues needed to be resolved before the contract discussions…
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Contributed Articles
Monitoring the potential of assisted living
In an article earlier this year, England’s chief nursing officer, Professor Jane Cummings, wrote about the move from self-care to supported self-care. Self-care can mean a variety of things to different people of varying ages and with disparate needs and challenges, whether you are monitoring your fitness and diet or, at the other end of…
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Making better use of data – It starts with design
As new technology keeps flooding into the housing sector and new sources of data emerge, imaginative ways to put them to good use are surfacing on a daily basis. You only have to read the pages of Housing Technology to see what’s possible. And it’s also clear that the way in which housing providers are…
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Suited to your needs
Planned maintenance systems have been used by many of the largest housing providers in the UK for over 20 years but have been left out by the smaller ones. Cost has been the main barrier in the past for these smaller housing providers, but we believe that future cloud-based systems will change this and allow…
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How analytics can help with UC and maintain your income
It doesn’t seem so long ago that universal credit (UC) was first introduced in pilot schemes around the country but we’re now just over halfway to full implementation, according to a House of Commons blog. The progressive UC roll-out to specific groups and geographic areas means that although an increasing proportion of claimants now receive…
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Secured by design
In this article, Jon Cole, chief operating officer of Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, looks at how visitor and access control systems can keep tenants safe in blocks of flats while providing landlords and the police with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate system misuse. Having a way of controlling who can…
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