Opinion: We’re on the telly!

But for all the wrong reasons. Over the past few months, ITV’s Daniel Hewitt has presented a series of hard-to-watch films about appalling housing conditions in social housing properties.

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Opinion: Not all swamps are as cute as Shrek’s

We all know that more and more data is being collected by companies. The need to collect increasing amounts of data and, of course, store it, risks creating data swamps. The word swamp came about as a way of describing the out of control, somewhat messy version of what was intended to be a data lake. I generally use the term for any scenario where the overall data repositories are messy, somewhat disorganised.

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Opinion: Complacency in compliance?

Not too long ago I attended and spoke at a small seminar in gas compliance and was staggered at some of the safety issues that exist in general, but also in relation to the social housing sector specifically and the challenges imposed on landlords.

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