PublicTechnology

July 2024

3 Minutes
News Society and welfare

Home Office signs £3m assisted digital deal as immigration transformation ‘may exclude customers that are not online’

Sam Trendall July 22, 2024 75 Comments on Home Office signs £3m assisted digital deal as immigration transformation ‘may exclude customers that are not online’
As campaigners have reignited calls for government to reverse plans to wholly digitise the immigration status system, the Home Office has signed a contract to help offline users make applications […]...
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Communities, housing and planning News

ICO reprimands Hackney for ‘clear and avoidable error’ – but council claims watchdog ‘has misunderstood the facts and misapplied the law’

Sam Trendall July 19, 2024 84 Comments on ICO reprimands Hackney for ‘clear and avoidable error’ – but council claims watchdog ‘has misunderstood the facts and misapplied the law’
The UKs data regulator has issued the council with a formal reprimand, but the two parties differ over the extent to which the authority could have taken additional security measures […]...
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Health and social care News

Microsoft outage: Most GP practices suffering ‘disruption’ as ministers coordinate government response

Sam Trendall July 19, 2024 54 Comments on Microsoft outage: Most GP practices suffering ‘disruption’ as ministers coordinate government response
Patients are advised by the NHS to only contact their local doctor with urgent queries, while ministers work on cohesively responding to issue impacting businesses and transport around the world […]...
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Communities, housing and planning News

Glasgow Council: ‘This is not a technology strategy, and cannot be delivered by technology alone’

Sofia Villegas and PublicTechnology staff July 18, 2024 3 Comments on Glasgow Council: ‘This is not a technology strategy, and cannot be delivered by technology alone’
Scotland’s largest city has published its first digital plan since 2018, with a focus on enabling citizens to get the most out of tech, rather than on major reform schemes […]...
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