All Archive Titles articles – Page 912
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Private firms to invest billions in key worker homes
Six investors plan to spend on low-cost homeownership and affordable rent schemes
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Moat Housing to measure benefits of eco-homes
The health and cost benefits of environmentally friendly homes are to be studied.
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Is your site being hacked?
Hackers breaking into corporate web sites represent a major problem for security and IT professionals, and none more so than for those managers operating in the commercial arena where profit is king. Is it possible to stop this kind of IT espionage? As Yuval Ben-Itzhak explains, the Golden Rule is ...
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BAT targets career-minded security professionals
Progressive client British American Tobacco (BAT) is organising a seminar aimed at harnessing the goals and ambitions of security professionals including security supervisors, site managers and deputy security managers.
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Bagging the fraudsters
Sir – it was interesting to read Jerry Hart's article ('What the offenders say', pp47-48) in the October edition of Security Management Today.
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Construction and housing groups back VAT cut
A coalition of housing and construction organisations is calling on the government to reduce the tax on repairs and maintenance work.
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Archive TitlesWalker scoops SITO National Training Award
The 2003 SITO 'Award for Outstanding Practice by a Training Provider' has been won by Andy Walker, a specialist in the field of door supervision (and creator of the Safer Doors programme) who has recently been advising and working with the Security Industry Authority on licensing of door staff – ...
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Archive TitlesPolice and Audit Commission tell landlords to do more to fight crime
Councils and housing associations were criticised this week for their perceived failure to tackle antisocial behaviour.
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Right to buy suspended in regeneration areas
The right to buy is to be suspended in regeneration areas to prevent tenants taking advantage of generous buy-back deals.
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Hyde and L&Q team up for estate management work in growth areas
Hyde Housing Group and London & Quadrant Housing Trust are poised to sign a six-figure deal to take on the managment of an 11,000-home development in Kent.
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Hull recovery team appoints council critic
The author of a highly critical report on Hull council has been appointed to the ODPM team overseeing the council’s recovery.
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Archive TitlesFeatures editor wins another award for Housing Today
Housing Today has scooped its second journalism award in as many weeks.
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Archive TitlesBlunkett's asylum amnesty leads to Whitehall chaos
Only 1% of those granted leave to remain are contacted as councils warn on B&B target
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Archive TitlesAn alternative view
When designing a CCTV Control Room, consultants and their end users need to be thinking about operator comfort, ease of use of the security systems and built-in flexibility for any future expansion of the space. We examine a recent project undertaken for the Manchester Royal Infirmary where all of these ...
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Round-one ALMOs want more cash to meet decent homes standard
Initial arm's-length management organisations demand funding parity with later rounds
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Archive TitlesHalf of all homeless people have mental health problems. A third of them became homeless because of their illness.
Mind is the charity many of these people turn to – particularly at this time of year. Joey Gardiner reports on why Housing Today is asking its readers to help Mind this Christmas
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Archive TitlesFire alarms: working to the BSI Code
The British Standards Institution has introduced BS 5839- 1:2002, its new Code of Practice for Fire Alarm Systems which replaces the Code published back in 1988. What does the latest document hold in store for those security managers tasked with fire protection and prevention duties?
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Archive TitlesStreets ahead
Conwy County Borough Council wanted added value when it came to specifying a new surveillance regime along the north Wales coastline, with environmental monitoring as well as crime reduction very much on the political agenda. We examine a state-of-the-art digital solution – dubbed 'Project 2000' – containing some valuable pointers ...
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Pre-shipment cargo clearance deal agreed by the US and EU
The European Union has reached agreement with United States officials over a new cargo deal which will allow the "sophisticated targeting" of security checks