All Archive Titles articles – Page 1043
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Archive TitlesInformation underload?
All-too-often, any mention of remote monitoring is wrapped up in technical jargon that's unintelligible to all but experts in the field. A situation that hasn't been helped by a lack of effective promotion by service providers. David Mackay unravels the 'techno speak' for security and risk managers, and pinpoints the ...
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Wage increase looms large for security officers
Well over a million of the UK's lowest paid workers – security officers among them – will see their wages increase in October when the adult National Minimum Wage rate rises from £4.20 to £4.50 per hour (the rate for 18-21-year-olds rising from £3.60 to £3.80). The news comes in ...
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Identification... That's what you need
Recent strains of computer virus have exploited a failing in the highly important process of virus detection – the business of naming and identifying them. Alex Shipp reviews a thorny problem that continues to plague security and IT managers, and suggests how their anti-virus vendors might be able to help.
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Here's an idea
Buy maintenance staff handheld computers so they can do paperwork on the move
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MPs grill officials over stock transfer and NAO report
the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Housing Corporation were forced to defend stock transfer policy at a sitting of the Commons Public Accounts Committee on Monday.
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Archive TitlesSector slates plan to offer grants to housebuilders
Proposals provoke anger because private firms will not be regulated in the same way as RSLs
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Archive TitlesPlymouth Go
Four-and-a-half years after it was conceived, the first housing PFI pathfinder has been signed. Why did the Plymouth Grove Estate take so long and what can we learn from it? Ben Denton of ABROS, part of the PFI team, explains
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Archive TitlesWilliam Freear (md, Pilgrims Security Services)
Terry O'Neil continues Security Management Today's ongoing series of interviews with key players in the contract security sector by talking to William Freear, managing director of Pilgrims Security Services.
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Archive TitlesFool's gold?
Video surveillance by way of Internet Protocol has been described as 'the New Black' and 'the Next Big Thing' to improve the life of security managers the length and breadth of the UK. Will this technology really deliver? David Mackay examines the end users' perspective as opposed to the grand ...
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Wales is doing just fine
The Audit Commission's recent annual report again demonstrates its apparent inability to draw sensible and constructive conclusions from its inspections.The only specific analysis of Welsh performance was "Welsh inspections revealed proportionately more poor services than good ones (20% poor against only 7% good)". This crude analysis was formed from only ...
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Figuratively speaking
SIR – I was pleased to attend the inaugural Security Industry Authority (SIA) seminar at London's Congress Centre ('SIA engages buyers at first regulation Roadshow', SMT, March 2003, pp15-16). It was certainly good to hear from the assembled SIA Panel regarding the development of the processes which will be applied ...
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The Evil That Men Do
There’s an old saying that suggests money is the root of all evil. Many of those who espouse such sentiment do so because they’ve had their fingers burned – perhaps by a promising business deal that collapsed at the eleventh hour. Or they’ve simply loaned the proverbial pound and duly ...
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War and economic slump could force lenders to raise rates
War in Iraq and a crash in house prices could drastically raise the cost of borrowing for registered social landlords.
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Archive TitlesDutch take up tenant incentive schemes
An influential Dutch think tank has backed the adoption of tenant incentive schemes similar to the Gold Service pioneered by Irwell Valley housing association.
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Dumfries & Galloway transfer gets the go-ahead
Transfer of Dumfries & Galloway's 12,000 council homes has been approved.
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Archive TitlesCan it be done?
All governments' housing policy has failed over the last 30 years. So declared the deputy prime minister in February as he launched the Communities Plan – his grand vision for correcting all those years of error by building places where people want to live and work, and can afford to ...
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Merger doesn't suit everyone
I'd like to voice my warm congratulations to Robina Rafferty, who has been appointed head of Housing Justice, created through the merger of the Catholic Housing Aid Society and the Churches National Housing Coalition. I know Robina will steer the new organisation in a bold course and continue to galvinise ...
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Archive TitlesPart one: Meeting the decent homes standard
If Poole council's ALMO fails, it doesn't have any other way to reach the decency target. Stuart Macdonald reports on a game of high stakes. Meet key player Baroness Dean and find out what education has do with it
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Decent homework
It's not all about housing. Here, education specialist Leisha Fullick explains how the plan's focus on decent homes will help children do better in school and keep teachers living and working in deprived areas
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Time to look at employee costs, perhaps?
As the economy starts to slow down, so managers begin to look at their employee costs. Del Hunter argues that many managers are under the mistaken impression that all workers should be treated equally. This doesn't mean that every employee is different. Really great managers have figured out that if ...