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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping costs down as an official Crown Commercial Service supplier on the Digital Marketplace  The latest version of the G-Cloud framework has been launched offering the very latest cloud technology and digital support to organisations across the public sector.  The new G-Cloud 10 services became available on the Digital Marketplace from Monday 2 July 2018.