Supporting Programme & Performance
Management
Delcam PS-Team’s Programme and Performance Management Autumn
seminars came to a successful close this month with over 100 delegates
from 60 housing organisations having attended the events.
Delcam develops and implements the PS-Team Programme
& Performance Management solution for Local Authorities, RSLs
and ALMOs and provides free, educational seminars where major
topics and issues are presented by expert speakers and discussed
by the delegates.
The events held in Leeds and Birmingham presented
the recent changes in housing inspection and showed the benefits
of using existing programme data to produce performance reports.
One of the main benefits is significant cost savings due to the
elimination of the need for double entry of data as the information
is collected at source as the work is being carried out. This
also means that the information is ready and available when you
need it and is delivered to the right people at the right time.
Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) is the ALMO created
to manage the refurbishment of social housing for Newcastle City
Council. David Langhorne, Assets and Programme Manager for YHN
presented a case study about the ALMO and how it is now using
data from its Programme Management solution to automatically produce
performance reports. YHN is not only maintaining its housing stock
to the Decent Homes Standard as required by the Government but
in addition is implementing a Modern Homes Programme which includes
Decent Homes Plus.
YHN has already seen additional benefits from
using PS-Team for Performance Management as well as Programme
Management. These include; better quality and more timely information
allowing more informed decisions (significant savings have been
made by selecting better-performing contractors for future work);
enforced processes ensuring that contractors all use the system
in the same way; visibility of performance improvement; better
strategic planning and awareness; improved accuracy of stock condition
information; improved programme forecasts, KPI monitoring and
benchmarking.
Heads of Housing for the North and Central regions
of the Audit Commission discussed the changes in regulation and
inspection and what impact that has for organisations managing
social housing in UK. Topics included the Cave review and changes
in social housing regulation, the introduction of short notice
inspections for poorly performing organisations, the new framework
– CPA to CAA and Value For Money developments.
Documents surrounding these events such as a
White Paper on Programme and Performance Management and a summary
of the presentations can be requested
or contact enquiries@ps-team.com
for more information about these and future events.
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