Government and MPs ask for public support in fight against coronavirus fake news
Select committee and ministers ask for citizens to be on the lookout for false information spread online
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The Government Transformation Strategy set out an array of ambitions for a three-year...
HMRC implements social tools in recruitment process in bid to boost customer service
Government response to select committee outlines measures taken at tax agency
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Digital minister confident networks will remain ‘resilient’ as citizens work from home and box-set binge
Matt Warman claims government is working with industry to monitor traffic in real time
Imperial leads the way as medical students take final exams remotely
London university hosts online examinations with many other institutions set to follow suit
Government loosens procurement rules to help departments with crisis response
Usual competition processes can be bypassed, Cabinet Office has announced
Interview: GDS head Alison Pritchard on ministerial change, the spending review and the benefits of comedy
The Government Digital Service was created to be a radical agent of reform. Director general Alison Pritchard tells PublicTechnology that, while it now prefers to work more collaboratively, it still has the stomach for a scrap.
Scotland expands funding for trainee STEM teachers
Number of bursaries expanded by 50%
Civil service head: ‘We will have to adapt the way we work’
Sir Mark Sedwill says departments will be given advice on working arrangements
HMRC encourages remaining paper users to move to digital tax returns
Department to stop automatically sending out hard-copy forms to those who used them in the previous year
DWP seeks to ‘transform’ retirement and pension services
Department seeks partner to fulfil potential two-year programme of work
Twitter directs #Coronavirus searches to NHS website as government steps up social media push
Government ramps up engagement with tech firms in bid to promote accurate advice and information
Digitising the Natural History Museum and boosting HMRC IT – fourteen tech takeaways from the Budget
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a range of funding and new programmes dedicated to digital, data and technology
DWP in-house IT company narrows gender pay gap as number of female senior managers shoots up
Mean salary disparity drops to 5.5%
DCMS unit to lead government’s anti-disinformation work
Cross-government team will support response to coronavirus falsehoods
DCMS to examine government data-sharing barriers ahead of programme of ‘radical and transformative change’
Department to explore ‘merits of a mandatory approach’ across Whitehall
How AI is helping Bradford NHS trust through winter pressures
Technology is helping to create bed capacity and keep surgery on schedule at Bradford NHS trust. Gill Hitchcock reports on what this means for patients and staff in what is typically a busy time of year
HMRC awards £3.5m deals to move case management into AWS cloud
Tax agency picks two suppliers to deliver ‘infrastructure and technology upgrade'
Government Communication Service to collect and analyse data on public-service radio ads
Cabinet Office seeks supplier to fulfil two-year contract
GDS boss Alison Pritchard: ‘There’s scope for us to be a bit more of an enforcer’
Director general says that, as organisation focuses more on data, she wants to ensure ‘we maintain the teeth we need to be effective’
Downing Street website for special adviser jobs slammed by civil service union chief
FDA general secretary Dave Penman says online recruitment of digital and comms specialists ‘looks like a ruse to get around open and fair selection’
DWP and HMRC staff rack up 16 years of service on average, data reveals
Departments are among government’s leaders, with some organisation posting averages of just nine months
Student Loans Company hunts ‘strategic partners’ for £200m-plus transformation of ageing IT estate
Arm’s-length body seeks to appoint a range of providers across various procurement exercises
‘We speak civil service, but we speak private sector too’ – JSaRC head Angela Essel on government’s ‘bilingual’ approach to national security
The Home Office’s Joint Security and Resilience Centre helps government work with industry to meet the UK’s security challenges. We talk to new head Angela Essel about why ‘heated discussions’ between civil servants and commercial secondees has created mutual respect and understanding