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Remember to discuss any article with at your next team meeting Awards round-up Our hard work continues to be recognised around the housing sector… „„ Congratulations to Nez Carey who won the Bright Star Award at the National Housing Group Awards. The award recognises an outstanding individual within the homeownership sector who has demonstrated a fresh and enthusiastic approach to their new role WoW – we’ve saved over £4.3m! We’ve saved over £4.3m through the WoW Programme, but there’s still work to do! „„ We were highly commended at the 24housing awards under the Best Training Scheme and Welfare Wise categories It’s essential you complete your actions on time so we can hit our target in March 2016. And don’t forget, you can contact the WoW Team any time if you’ve any saving ideas: [email protected] „„ We were commended at the Croydon Business Excellence Awards under the category Commitment to the Community „„ We were named in the Top 50 Companies for Customer Service at a recent awards ceremony at Old Trafford Policy Updates „„ We’ve been shortlisted at the Resolve Antisocial Behaviour Awards, the UK’s premier awards for effective practice in tackling antisocial behaviour In the last month we’ve made some minor changes to the: „„ Our innovative ‘Value Chain’ approach to driving out cost and driving up service excellence has been recognised. Together with contractor, Hedley Visick, we won the Association of Consultant Architects ‘Award for Outstanding Collaboration’. „„ Authorised Time Off Policy – clarifying how much bereavement leave staff can take „„ Disciplinary Policy – clarifying an employee may be suspended at any stage of the disciplinary process, if appropriate. Suspension is not a penalty and isn’t an indication of responsibility „„ Safeguarding Policy – clarifying the Safeguarding Monitoring Group is responsible for reviewing alerts and referrals „„ Resident Governance Recruitment Policy – taking account of the new Customer Experience Committee and appraisals for resident governance members. Contact Beth Austin on 4510 or Gill Aylett on 4259 for more information. www.ahintranet.org.uk/teamtalk 2 Edition 69 - November 2015