After its first year of operation, Linc-Cymru Housing Association has announced the success of its telecare-enabled Extra Care scheme. Using a telecare system from Tunstall, residents in 40 self-contained apartments developed in partnership with Newport City Council have had access to 24-hour remote monitoring and on-site care for the past 12 months. Linc-Cymru’s Extra Care…
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Coast & Country resells telecare to Derwentside Homes
HomeCall, the telecare division of Coast & Country Housing, has just begun providing out-of-hours support for tenants in Derwentside Homes’ 6,700 properties. The commercial arrangement between the two housing providers comes after HomeCall spent £1 million last year on upgrades to its telecare and call handling systems. The HomeCall contact centre in Redcar is expected…
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Riviera Housing’s £115,000 telecare programme
Telecare and security systems provider Cirrus has won a £115,000 contract to upgrade Riviera Housing Trust’s telecare services. Cirrus will be upgrading 11 housing schemes with a Tynetec alarm and communications system specifically designed for grouped housing schemes. The new system will improve Riviera’s existing community/warden call alarm services, with an emphasis on open communications…
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First Wessex goes virtual with Blue Chip
IT infrastructure specialist Blue Chip has completed the virtualisation of First Wessex Group’s IT infrastructure, following the housing provider’s desire to centralise services across the group as well as replace ageing server hardware. The cost of the project was reported to be £130,000. The first phase of the project involved the installation of four VMware…
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New housing recruitment service from Macallam
A leading recruitment company has launched a programme specifically to attract and retain senior managerial talent to the social housing sector. Macallam Integrated Resourcing said that its Talentrack mentoring programme delivers carefully profiled candidates to housing providers. In addition, Macallam offers an alternative to other recruitment programmes due to set contract costs which enable accurate…
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Self-service for Selwood Housing
Selwood Housing is implementing a new HR system from Access Select for its 140 employees looking after 5,200 properties in Wiltshire and Somerset. The SelectHR system includes modules covering training and development, online recruitment and appraisal, and self-service for employees and managers. As one of Selwood’s core requirements, the latest version of SelectHR also records…
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