Capita has moved to enhance its software offering to local authorities and social housing organisations, helping them further improve the services they provide to citizens, by combining its local government software businesses under a single umbrella.

Capita’s software services business has been awarded the “Connected/Mobility Solution of the Year” title at the IT Europa European IT and Software Excellence Awards 2017.

Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP), which collects council tax and delivers housing benefit for seven local authorities across East Anglia, has been announced as the latest customer to sign up to Capita Software Services’ new automation software.

Capita Employee Benefits today announces it has been appointed to the National LGPS Procurement Framework for both third party pension administration and pension administration support services.

The Mayor of London has launched the world’s largest Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), using technology built and operated by Capita, to reduce the capital’s illegally high levels of air pollution.

Capita has been selected by Luxon Payments to deliver its integrated payments solution Pay360 and fraud protection solution Optimize in a new three-year contract.

Capita has appointed Simon Freeman to the position of managing director of its restructured and market-leading Local Public Services business.

Aimie Chapple will join Capita in October as executive officer of Customer Management, while Chantal Free will join the same month as executive officer of People Solutions.

The UK Social Mobility Awards aim to make the advancement of social mobility a key part of how organisations and businesses in the UK are run.

Capita has been selected by the Department for Education’s Standards and Testing Agency (STA) to manage the administration, processing and support for all primary school national curriculum assessment (NCA) tests in England.