Government tech chief looks to bring more policy and delivery pros into digital roles
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Test and Trace buys £1.3m software tool to analyse PCR results data
Government signs contract with Belgian specialist firm UgenTec
Education secretary asks watchdog to exert ‘pressure’ on universities to return to in-person teaching
Gavin Williamson believes institutions that offer only online options should not charge students full fees
HM Passport Office picks £50m data transformation partner
Kainos awarded potential five-year deal to work on organisation’s data products
Whitehall remote workers ‘don’t deserve’ same terms as office-based colleagues, minister claims
Backlash from unions after anonymous Cabinet minister vents spleen to Daily Mail
Home Office seeks tech and data leaders as transformation programme rolls on
Department has brought in £300k headhunters to support recruitment
GDS signs £12m two-year AWS hosting deal
Contract offers 11% discount under vendor’s Volume Commitment Programme
Hybrid working model will see extra 1,000 officials move to HMRC Leeds hub
Location will welcome extra staff from eight other government entities, including Cabinet Office and DfT
Data shows sharp drop in NHS Covid app contact alerts and venue check-ins
Weekly number of exposure notifications falls by almost 300,000
DWP project to ‘address concerns’ over ageing tech in data warehouse
Department working to update hardware and software
Civil service skills map and synthetic data for policymakers among proposals to improve government data use
Ideas will be tested and the best will be taken forward
Departments must ‘improve IT accessibility and interoperability’, says Whitehall disability champion
DCMS perm sec Sarah Healey says that difficulties encountered by disabled colleagues are ‘unacceptable’
Minister under fire for replacing phone before it was searched in procurement proceedings
Transparency campaigners question why Lord Bethell’s documents cannot be retrieved
Leader sought for healthtech and innovation agency
Salary of £110k on offer for new head of Office for Life Sciences
Scottish Government sticks with homeworking advice as restrictions lift
Employers are also encouraged to move towards a hybrid model in the longer term
MoD offers first-ever bug bounty to find vulnerabilities in defence systems
Department runs 30-day exercise in partnership with ethical hackers
Northern Irish vaccine certification app gradually expands availability after shaky start
Citizens can obtain digital documentation for travel dates in the next two weeks
Sunak encourages young people to return to the office
Chancellor says the connections made in the early part of his career would have been harder to forge ‘over Teams and Zoom’
HMRC sets 2023 shutdown date for CHIEF customs platform
One year shy of its 30th birthday, outgoing system will be finally and fully replaced by Customs Declaration Service
NHS explores ‘digital staff passports’
System is intended to make it easier for health-service workers to move between roles
Covid app updated to reduce isolation alerts
Fewer contacts of asymptomatic cases will be advised to self-isolate
GDS floats two £2m contracts to progress single sign-on plans
Digital agency seeks support with authentication and architecture of new government-wide system