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Seven pledges for care at home: TEC in Housing in Scotland

  • TEC in Housing
  • TEC Ready
  • Technology Enabled Care
  • Scottish housing
  • TEC in Housing Charter

Fanchea Kelly, Chief Executive of Blackwood and Chair of TEC Ready, appears on camera to explain why technology belongs in the way Scotland houses and supports people. Her video is one of the first things a visitor meets on TEC in Housing, a site whose header reads "TECH Housing".

The site came out of the Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Ready programme, which is funded by the Scottish Government. TEC Ready backs the valuable part the housing sector plays in bringing TEC into people's homes, and the site is its public shop window.

Its main job is to show what housing organisations across Scotland are already doing. Six examples sit under Tec Housing Solutions: the MyChoice Meals Ordering Service from Aberdeen City Council, Fit Homes from Albyn Housing Society, CleverCogs™ from Blackwood, ARMED from Loreburn Housing Association, the TEC Strategy of Perth and Kinross Council, and A Tablet for the Patient from Tighean Innse Gall. Visitors can also hear from the key people behind some of the most innovative TEC work, including a second film, "Creating Housing Solutions Through Technology".

Organisations that want to stand behind this approach can sign the TEC in Housing Charter. It rests on seven pledges: being opportunity and solution focused, engaging with customers, working in partnership, preventative analytics, service redesign, supporting the workforce, and getting the infrastructure right. The Charter Pledges can be downloaded, there is a sign-up form, and a list shows the signatory organisations that have already joined.

The rest of the menu covers About TEC Ready, Resources and Contact. The site practises what it preaches on access: a blue Userway icon at the top right lets visitors change text sizes and have the screen read aloud, and there is an Accessibility page and a Site Map, with Twitter and Facebook share buttons and a "Supported By" logo strip at the foot of the page.

The Wayback Machine holds 71 captures of the site, from 17 February 2019 to 3 April 2026. A July 2019 capture of TEC in Housing shows how it looked in its first year. The live site is at techousing.co.uk.

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