Coronavirus and Locata
Following the latest advice from Government on the COVID-19 outbreak, we have made the business decision to restrict face to face contact with our customers, partner organisations and suppliers. Locata’s staff members will work from home until further notice and adopt a working in isolation policy. However, we are still very much open for business […]
Eight new videos on Housing Related Support
Locata has created eight videos demonstrating how our Housing Related Support (HRS) module works. We filmed the videos after receiving many requests for access to the Housing Related Support system following the module’s recent launch in Cheshire East. Locata’s Corinne Copeland and Andy Glaves wrote the scripts for the videos that all feature Corinne as […]
More exciting developments from Locata
We are currently working on many interesting new products and innovative business tools. For instance, we are now putting the MHCLG data quality reports into HPA2. Each quarter the MHCLG send you, the local authorities, the following five QA reports: 1. Initial assessments 2. Prevention 3. Relief 4. Main duty 5. Temporary accommodation These reports […]
Locata in 2020 and beyond
Now a new year has begun, we felt it was a good time to send you updates on all the new products and innovative business tools we are working on. It’s going to be an exciting decade… Housing Related Support (HRS) was released late in 2019 and has already been taken up by three partners. […]
Development Group helps decide new HPA2 enhancements
Three new enhancements have now gone live on the HPA2 system. These enhancements were built following recommendations from the HPA2 Development Group, which met earlier this year to consider a series of proposed improvements to the system suggested by users all over the country. Each enhancement requires investment, so the Development Group ranked the suggestions […]
New Housing Related Support system launched
Locata is ready to roll out its new Housing Related Support (HRS) system across the country. The new launch was created in partnership with housing practitioners from Cheshire East who wanted a way to link applicants directly to support services. The system went live in Cheshire East four weeks ago and acts as a referral […]
The “pick ‘n mix” PHPs on a computer near you
Homelessness officers using the Locata HPA2 system have a new facility that should make it quicker and easier to create well-constructed Personal Housing Plans. We have uploaded into every partner’s system a set of possible actions an officer could include in an applicant’s plan as well as actions for the relief duty split by single […]
What’s best for mobiles – Apps or Responsive Websites?
Just under nine out of ten people (86%) use a mobile device for accessing housing and homelessness services run by Locata for local authorities across the country. Analysis of the hundreds of thousands of interactions each year by customers of Locata’s 135 local authority partners clearly shows the importance of a good mobile strategy to […]
Locata’s new SNUG and NNUG
The first meetings of Locata’s two new National User’s Groups have been held in Manchester and London during September. More than 50 delegates from scores of local authorities attended each of the meetings. The original National Users Group (NUG) has met twice a year for more than 10 years. However, following the recent success of […]
HPA2 Validators will cut down H-CLIC upload errors
New HPA2 Validators have been developed to help local authorities eliminate errors when trying to upload homelessness data to the MHCLG’s Delta Schematron. Many local authorities have suffered hundreds of errors as they attempted to upload their H-CLIC returns for Quarter 1. The Delta Schematron has not been particularly stable since launch and the validation […]