Internet access and smartphones Without internet access tenants are excluded from a whole range of services, benefits, employment, savings etc. Smartphone use is on the increase, and for young people (aged 12 – 17) it is increasingly the primary means to access the internet. Attitudes to digital media channels among social housing providers vary widely. …..Read the full article »
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Salary Comparison for Smaller Housing Associations 2013
Salary comparison 2013 Once again this year we are running our comparison of salaries, terms and conditions for smaller housing providers. Everyone who submits data will receive a report with a comparison and analysis of the terms and conditions offered by different providers that will help them and their Boards judge how the pay and …..Read the full article »
Changes to SPBM Performance Indicators – Q4 2013
Many new performance indicators have been introduced by HouseMark, as all the main housing PIs are broken down by tenure type – GN, Supported and housing for older people. We have also added some new indicators of our own. If you are interested in exploring whether these might be useful for you please get in …..Read the full article »
Housing Salaries Comparison 2011
Once again this year we are running our Salary Comparison service for smaller housing providers. We have improved the questionnaire for 2011 to provide more comparative analysis of the terms and conditions offered by different providers. Everyone who submits data will receive a regional and national report that will help them and their Boards judge …..Read the full article »
Partnership with HouseMark
Acuity has agreed a benchmarking partnership with HouseMark that we believe will bring significant benefits to subscribers of both organisations. New services for members While our work supporting clubs and individuals from smaller housing associations continues as before, our members now have access to the housing practitioner resources and networking that is available through HouseMark, …..Read the full article »
Housing Salaries
In view of Grant Shapps’ recent undertaking to ‘Shine a Light’ on salaries paid to housing association staff along with the public sector, we thought it might be useful to highlight some of the findings from our 2010 salary comparison of 30 smaller providers — housing associations managing up to 1,000 homes. The median Chief …..Read the full article »
Salary Comparison 2010
We have recently revamped our web-based salaries comparison service, which provides smaller associations with meaningful comparisons between the salaries and other rewards they offer their staff and those offered by similar organisations facing similar challenges. In developing the service we realised that, for smaller organisations, job title alone is not necessarily a good indication of …..Read the full article »
Smaller Providers Go Big on Performance
Smaller housing providers now have the opportunity to be part of what is fast becoming a national performance benchmarking network for smaller housing providers. Things have really moved on since our last newsletter (November 2009) in which we reported on our work with two benchmarking groups for smaller housing associations. More than 30 other organisations …..Read the full article »
Benchmarking for smaller housing associations – PI Harmonisation
Benchmarking and peer review is a key part of the Tenant Services Authority’s model of co-regulation and that makes it a good time for all of those involved in performance comparisons to be reviewing their performance indicators. We have initiated a project with our benchmarking groups and other small associations to agree a core set …..Read the full article »
Benchmarking – Salary Comparison
With members of the bm320 benchmarking group, we have developed a salary comparison service that provides meaningful comparison between the salaries and other staff rewards with those offered by similar organisations facing similar challenges. We were aware of the diversity of job roles within the sector and pinning down roles in small organisations proved to …..Read the full article »
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