All Archive Titles articles – Page 697
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Archive TitlesDisability bill disappoints
The Disability Discrimination Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech fails to address the housing needs of disabled people at the most basic level.
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The Big Issue
In recent years, the fire and rescue services have witnessed a worrying increase in false alarms from fire systems.
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Archive TitlesJilted RSLs set to bid for funds under grant to developers pilot
Peabody and Notting Hill aim to make up for missing out on preferred partner status
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Bedding down
Plans for the renewal of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, were unveiled on Tuesday.
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Councils and RSLs braced to get bad news on Supporting People
Councils and housing associations were this week preparing themselves to find out who would be hit hardest by plans to cut spending on Supporting People
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Archive TitlesAssistant editor wins journalism award
Housing Today’s assistant editor Stuart Macdonald was named housing journalist of the year at the International Building Press Awards last Thursday.
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Archive Titles‘If you look at where black people live, it’s the worst housing. You have to ask yourself, why?
That’s the question Lord Adebowale is out to answer as head of the ODPM advisory group on inequality in housing allocation. He tells Eleanor Snow what choice should mean.
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Archive TitlesAppointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Archive TitlesAppointments
Dr Andrew WaughDr Andrew Waugh has joined Tribal HCH in Edinburgh as a consultant. He joins from the Scottish Council for Single Homeless.Norman BrewertonNorman Brewerton is moving from Mid-Devon District Council, where he was tenancy services manager, to become head of operational housing at Sedgemoor council.Jane HamiltonJane Hamilton has been ...
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Archive TitlesChristmas appeal
Coming out to your parents is difficult at any age. But what happens to gay teenagers who are rejected by their families? They could end up on the streets, contemplating suicide … or in a loving home found by the Albert Kennedy Trust. Victoria Madine meets one of the people ...
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More homes is the answer
The steady rise in the number of homeless people in bed-and-breakfast accommodation in Wales is worrying and baffling (26 November, page 11).
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Slough tenants give huge yes vote to ALMO
Slough Council tenants have voted overwhelmingly in favour of setting up an arm’s-length management organisation to manage their homes.
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Now the smoke is clearing, we are all health providers
They used to say the glossier and more colourful the government document, the less notice you need take of it.
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Government set to offer shared ownership to all tenants...
ODPM bows to No 10 pressure to introduce measures to raise homeownership
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Archive TitlesSwitch alarm for meeting rooms
Alarm switchesPersonal attack alarmsAn alarm switch designed specifically for interview rooms has been introduced by Tapeswitch. The Da-Do switch system is developed from the company’s highly successful ribbon-switch technology, which has been available across the industrial sector for a number of years.Da-Do is a press-at-any-point switch strip that’s easily operated ...
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Assemblies: Well need extra cash after merger
Eight out of nine assemblies fear they will need more funds to fulfil regional housing role
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Avoid a legal hangover after the office party
If staff get out of hand at the Christmas party, it’s the employer who risks action for harassment or discrimination
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Archive TitlesAffecting deliveries
Security and incident managers have been forced to deal with suspect packages in their company’s Post Room for many years now, particularly when the IRA threat was at its highest. Now, though, the likelihood of ‘postal terrorism’ has taken on a new guise, with militant groups threatening the inclusion of ...