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New Forest District Council has paid tribute to Locata for the work they have undertaken to create an integrated portfolio of housing modules for the council. In a post on LinkedIn, Richard Knott, New Forest’s Assistant Housing Director, said that Locata and its developers, Sector, brought a genuine collaborative and partnership approach to the design

The reporting requirements for rough sleepers are due to change in May 2023 as part of the Ending Rough Sleeping Framework. DLUHC has been consulting with the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) and a set of early adopter local authorities to develop “a powerful set of metrics” to track how effectively rough sleeping is prevented

Locata’s new Lettings system is going live in Cheshire East, where it will intially run alongside the existing CBL system to doubly ensure the integrity of the system. The new system is designed to be a replacement for our current Choice Based Lettings product and is the culmination of more than a year’s development work.

Every housing and homelessness team using Locata systems has amassed significant personal data from its customers. That data is held securely for you in the “cloud” using Micosoft servers based in the UK. Using the official GDPR definitions, Locata undertake that role for you as the “Data Processor”. However, the personal data should not be

Locata is supporting the Unlocking Success Bursary Scheme run by the Northern Housing Consortium Charitable Trust.  The bursary awards a grant of £500 to individual social housing tenants to help them with the cost of learning or developing new skills. Since the launch of the scheme in 2019 there have been 88 bursaries awarded funded

My Advice Gateway is a free resource that helps people quickly find information on claiming benefits, accessing help and support and looking for a job or training opportunities.  Many of our partner schemes have links to the website allowing their customers to access key financial information at a time of rising costs and economic uncertainty.