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 […]
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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
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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.
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A new service has been launched that delivers tailored, quality advice for local authorities meeting their duties under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. The on-line tool provides an easy to use online database of advice snippets covering tenant rights and rights of occupation, benefits, harassment and illegal eviction, S21 notices, debt, rent and mortgage arrears,
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Homelessness staff across the country are generally very enthusiastic about the changes the new legislation will bring when it goes live in April, but many aren’t ready to apply the new law to actual cases, according to Andy Gale, Housing Consultant. Speaking at Locata’s annual housing event in Bristol on March 23, he told delegates
Locata’s first two webinars of 2018 have focused on recent developments to HPA2 – our homelessness system that has been improved and upgraded to meet all the requirements of the Homelessness Reduction Act. The new system is currently being rolled out to more than 100 local authorities. Locata is now more than halfway through training
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Locata will host its third annual housing event in Bristol on March 23rd, 2018. The free one-day seminar will focus on the start of the Homelessness Reduction Act this coming April and how the Act can be delivered using improved technology and reduced resources. The event will also offer an update on the implementation and
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There is enormous interest in how Locata will help local authorities fulfil their new duties and responsibilities under the Homelessness Reduction Act. We have had scores of requests for further information and demonstrations of our upgraded Homelessness Prevention and Advice system. After all we have had a decades worth of experience and we are prepared.
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The first live demonstration of a system capable of delivering the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRACT) was shown at Locata’s National Users Group meeting on October 6. Delegates were given a live preview of the process showing how cases, tasks and questions will work as well as the interactive customer portal around the Personal Housing Plan
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Locata is delighted to be sponsoring the Northern Housing Consortium’s annual Homelessness conference this year. The conference focuses on the Homelessness Reduction Act and good practice within the sector on tackling and preventing homelessness. It will be held in Leeds on December 5th, 2017. Peter Riley, the Managing Director of Locata, will be speaking about
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