All Archive Titles articles – Page 1027
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Here's an idea
A cash prize draw could encourage your tenants to pay their rent and bills on time
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Lovell leaves West Hendon redevelopment
Housebuilder Lovell has pulled out of a consortium that is to carry out the £275m redevelopment of West Hendon in north London.
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UK Guarding sells London group
SectorGuard plc – the AIM-listed manned guarding company – has acquired the London division of fellow contractor UK Guarding Services for an initial payment of just less than £100,000.
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Halt! Who goes there?
Most IT security managers of blue chip organisations face a major problem when it comes to ensuring the legitimacy of access to their company's network and the information stored. We advocate the use of advanced authentication methods combined with single sign-on as the answer.
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Archive TitlesForces' sweethearts
The war in Iraq is over and servicemen are coming home. But an alarming number of those leaving the armed forces altogether will find themselves on the street. We checked out some schemes that offer help and hope
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Archive TitlesSecuring the shop floor
Although staff and customer theft continues to cost UK business over a billion pounds every year, it's surprising how many retailers haven't installed even the most basic of security measures to protect their premises. As we point out, they should determine to work in partnership with leading private security providers ...
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Flexible strategies
Encouraging members of the security workforce to achieve their optimum work-life balance has been one of the present Government's core objectives. Legislation introduced last month will enable many of those with children to spend more time at home with their young offspring.
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Archive TitlesFaçade engineering
What are the frequently overlooked requirements for designing a modern security management system? Is it really the case that a software-centred design philosophy will win the day over one that's more reliant on hardware? We investigate on behalf of the practising end user.
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Selling empty homes improves estates, says Rowntree report
Selling vacant properties improves the quality of social housing estates, according to a report published on Wednesday.
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Watching the directives
The EU is extending discrimination legislation. What does this mean for employers?
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Archive TitlesUnison pay demand may scupper stock transfers
Union general secretary demands that RSLs pay new staff council rates after transfer
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Supporting People detail delayed
The long-awaited breakdown of funding for Supporting People pipeline schemes has been delayed for a fortnight.
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The Real Deal
First there was the White Paper. Then we had the Parliamentary Bill, closely followed by Royal Assent for the Private Security Industry Act in May 2001.
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Inherited Court Proceedings
I write further to the letter of Chris Wood from Knowsley Housing Trust last week regarding the recent article "RSLs cannot inherit possession cases, court says" (11 April, page 8).
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RSLs sceptical over Corporation pledge on whole-life costs
Registered social landlords are worried the Housing Corporation will not change the way it evaluates scheme costs because this would force it to miss government housebuilding targets.
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Keeping a sense of continuity
Each time your IT Department changes anything on the network, equally your business continuity plan will have to change. However, in the case of a merger or acquisition, business continuity planning often ends up on the back burner. We explain why that particular scenario should not be allowed to arise.
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Archive TitlesWhitfield sets up consultancy
Until recently head of r&d security worldwide at GlaxoSmith-Kline, Geoff Whitfield has decided to go it alone and form his own security consultancy.
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Select committee warning on Communities Plan
The deputy prime minister's plan to provide 200,000 extra homes in the South-east by 2016 could end in disaster, according to a Commons inquiry.
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Archive TitlesTough on climb
St Pancras & Humanist Housing Association has launched a campaign to discourage children from playing on scaffolding. The landlord has arranged for its contractor, TH Kenyon, to give talks in schools and is organising a poster competition for young people on the theme of scaffolding safety.