GDS Service Manual adds guidance to help departments ‘make the case for building the right thing’
New section on measuring benefits on agile projects added to document that helps government create services that comply with GDS standards
Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names...
Matt Hancock urges schools to ban phones
Culture secretary says evidence shows that outlawing the use of mobiles is effective
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DWP digital project to manage debts of up to 15 million citizens
Department plans ‘modernisation’ of its work to collect more than £1bn owed to the government each year
CCS chief executive Harrison to leave Whitehall
Head of government buying agency will exit in July to take post with Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
Kingston upon Thames plans digital platform to connect citizens to community groups and activities
Borough issues advance notification of Connect Well Kingston tool designed to promote wellbeing and help residents meet new people
Government launches anti-terror tool to ‘stop video propaganda before it ever reaches the internet’
Home Office claims machine-learning software developed in conjunction with ASI Data Science could be of use to smaller platforms such as Vimeo, Telegra.ph, and pCloud
HMRC IT staff working on Brexit preparations could face redundancy as part of civil-service office-closure plans
Department's regional centre in Stratford will be smaller than first anticipated
West Midlands seeks chief digital officer
Metro mayor Andy Street seeks leader to front 'digital revolution'
West Yorkshire Police to roll out mobile scanners for on-the-spot fingerprint checks
Devices are designed to check against national criminal and immigration databases and return results in under a minute
Recruitment reforms to make it easier for Whitehall departments to bring in ‘highly specialist skills’
Exceptions added to Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles could allow for digital professionals to be brought in without full hiring process
NHS, local government, and ICO impacted by cryptojacking attack
National Cyber Security Centre claims public is not at risk after malicious code for generating cryptocurrency added to Browsealoud text-to-speech tool
Embedding AI and biometrics into services picked as GDS priorities for 2018
Director general Kevin Cunnington runs through achievements of past 12 months and goals for the coming year, including supporting Brexit initiatives and increasing DDaT skills
Newcastle seeks to build online platform to help with assisted living
Council to consult with potential suppliers about digital system for helping citizens maintain independence
Liverpool CCG plans telehealth pilot with hospital consultants
As part of a mission to grow its use of healthcare technology, the city will trial the expansion of telehealth referrals in secondary as well as primary care
Foreign Office reveals it lost one PC every six weeks in last three years but claims robust defences mean ‘they do not pose a security risk’
Response to FOI request also reveals that department spends £66m a year on IT
Ordnance Survey looks to future as a ‘data-as-a-service’ provider
Mapping agency seeks input for three-month project to define long-term data strategy, including necessary skills and technology infrastructure
South Gloucestershire’s digital-transformation plans take flight
Council signs deal with IT company to build customer platform
More than 350 north-east GPs join record-sharing initiative
Vast majority of doctors in the region buy into the 'Geordie nation concept'
Government launches review of online trolling laws
Law Commission asked to analyse whether and how statutes need to be changed to ensure they are fit for the internet age
Suffolk looks to build public sector cloud for use across the East of England
County council claims project to build network for use across Anglia could be worth up to £75m
Fears Government Digital Service being “dismembered” as it prepares to lose data policy to DCMS
Warning of “Whitehall asset-stripping” as policy-focused DCMS looks set to gain chunk of GDS remit
Information Commissioner’s Office gets green light to pay staff more as GDPR challenge looms
Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track
£45k web design contract up for grabs as Defra advisers look to ditch ‘failing’ site
Joint Nature Conservation Committee looks to meet Government Digital Service standards and move away from content management system it has been running since 2005