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If nothing else, security industry regulation, changes in the management of SITO and differences of opinion with respect to future Sector Skills Council arrangements for the industry have provided a focus for training the like of which has never been seen before. Whatever your views, there's little doubt that decisions ...
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Applications backlog may neutralise effect of planning delivery grant
A sharp rise in planning applications in the last quarter of 2002 could stop planning departments processing the new housing needed for the Communities Plan.
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Record ALMO demand will leave councils disappointed
Local authorities may have to scale back round-three bids to get a piece of the pie
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Market renewal money allocated
The government has unveiled plans to allocate the first slice of the £500m market renewal pathfinder money and has called on those outside the programme to begin tackling low demand.
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Archive TitlesThe brenda agenda
Baroness Dean is known for her no-nonsense style, and now she's bringing it to the Communities Plan as head of the low-cost homeownership taskforce. The chair of the Housing Corporation tells Stuart Macdonald about both jobs … and her bouts of stage fright.
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Archive TitlesErgonomic design in action
Managers at the London Borough of Hackney have adopted principles contained in the recently-published international ISO standard on the ergonomic design of Control Rooms (ISO 11064) in specifying equipment for the Council’s new installation. Ian Drury and Charles Evett review the operational logistics.
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ACPO delighted by new drop in false alarm calls
Intruder alarm statistics for 2002 show that, for the tenth successive year, the number of false calls passed to the police has fallen
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All above board
Like Derek Gillmore ("Paying boards can work" 28 March, page 22), I have some experience of paying board members. MHS Homes is a transfer landlord and has been paying its board members since its inception in 1990. As an unregistered association, our board is made up both of executive and ...
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Interviews: it's about preparation!
You may well have spent a good deal of time re-drafting your CV and applying for that new security management role with a blue chip concern, but such effort will have been wasted if you fail to do any 'homework' on the interview process itself. Del Hunter examines how job ...
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How to … Become a group without merging
Plus Housing Group explains why its group structure suited it better than a merger
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Archive TitlesOctar End User Group hailed “a great success” by Visimetrics
Digital video specialist Visimetrics is enjoying great success with its End User Group meetings, which provide an open forum for CCTV end users of its well-known Octar digital recording systems in the retail, industrial, banking and town centre sectors across the UK.The meetings – ‘invented’ by Jacksons Stores head of ...
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Councils give cool welcome to housing bill’s right to buy crackdown
Government proposals to stem the surge in right- to-buy applications are “disappointing”, councils have said.
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Archive TitlesDenham resigns as SIA ‘goes live’
The Security Industry Authority’s official launch on 2 April occurred in the wake of Home Office Minister John Denham’s shock decision to resign his tenure over the war in Iraq
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Archive TitlesWithdrawing BS 4737 is wrong!
Like many practitioners in the industry, independent security consultant Mike Cahalane is adamant that the CENELEC Technical Board's proposed decision to withdraw BS 4737 by 1 September this year will have a detrimental effect on security installers and their end users.
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Archive TitlesInsurance costs set to rocket 25% within two years
Associations warned to reduce unnecessary claims to keep premiums down
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Counter-terrorism tops the bill for IFSEC 2003 Conference agenda
Counter-terrorism tops the bill in what has been described by BSIA chief executive David Dickinson as “a dynamic seminar programme” at this year’s IFSEC Exhibition (which runs from 19-22 May at the NEC, Birmingham).Dickinson told SMT: “No-one needs to be reminded of the escalating security challenges facing us all. ...
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2nd opinion: We're not out of danger yet
Louise Cumberland on refuges and Supporting People
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Transfers hit highest level as 145,000 homes switch
stock transfer has hit its highest level since the programme began in 1988.