10 Downing St offers over £100k for data science whizz
Prime minister’s in-house data science unit seeks senior manager to deliver ‘high-impact’ initiatives
GDS spent £5m on ‘data and user insights’ last year
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Government to offer schools cyber response and insurance services
From next school year, organisations will be able to benefit from monitoring and help with costs...
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Scotland issues call for employers to enable remote working
First minister Nicola Sturgeon urges firms to permit staff to work from home as Omicron cases increase
Government’s broadband-rollout unit to be spun out into executive agency
BDUK will remain part of DCMS but a new and independent management structure will be established
Common Platform: Courts workers back strike over problems with digital system
Union claims new system threatens 3,000 jobs
Cabinet Office lambasted over narrow recruitment window for statistics watchdog
Candidates for role as chair of UKSA have been given less than two weeks to apply – which onlookers claim could impact the strength and diversity of the field
Whitehall’s top official admits need to improve civil service technical skills
Simon Case claims government has improved data handling and support for innovation but there is more to do
HMRC expects to recover 40% of £5.8bn lost to fraud and error in pandemic support
Tax agency’s head says department believes it will recoup just 40p in the pound of money lost in delivery of furlough and other support schemes
DfE appoints partner to support delivery of up to 500,000 homeschooling laptops this winter
Major supplier Computacenter awarded multimillion-pound contract
Cabinet Office taps LinkedIn to help fill ‘specialist’ digital and leadership roles in £600k deal
GDS will be the main beneficiary of the central department’s purchase of software and support from professional social network
Criminal justice and mental health: Report identifies ‘broken’ system of data-sharing between agencies
Study warned that the impact of mental illness is being ‘missed at every stage’ of the criminal justice system
Courts IT system threatens thousands of jobs, union warns
PCS believes digital case-management system is not fit for purpose
How DWP hired 13,500 new work coaches – without meeting a single one
Faced with a Herculean hiring drive as coronavirus restrictions took hold, the department could not recruit candidates in the usual ways. PublicTechnology finds out it what did instead.
Cabinet Office explores creation of £5m digital platform to manage all government grants
Department claims system would ‘completely reset the way in which government, public sector bodies, charities, SMEs and citizens interact’
Recruitment firm handed £18,750 to find ‘highly specialist’ UK cyber ambassador
DIT seeks candidate to promote work of UK security firms
Scottish surgeons to use digital simulation in training
Education programmes will also incorporate 3D-printed organs
Switch to remote working saved 500 HMRC jobs
Tax agency’s annual accounts reveal that redundancy programme was scaled back as a result of flexible working arrangements introduced in response to coronavirus crisis
HMRC achieves ‘significant improvement’ in IT uptime in FY21
Annual accounts for in-house IT company show number of ‘red days’ fell by a third, while coronavirus crisis saw costs rise more than £9m
Military innovation unit seeks to improve diversity in STEM hiring spree
Dstl undertakes ‘positive action’ to attract candidates from under-represented backgrounds
Will DDaT professionals be considered ‘frontline’ during planned Whitehall job cuts?
The Spending Review revealed an intention to reduce the number of ‘non-frontline’ civil servants back to pre-pandemic levels – but the Treasury is yet to define how such a distinction will be made
Borders and benefits – which government tech initiatives got a Budget boost?
A rundown of the departments and programmes that received support for digital ambitions
GDS seeks £5m partner to deliver identity-checking app for new government-wide login
Chosen supplier will also have remit to help digital agency increase its app-development credentials
BEIS chief: ‘One of the upsides of the pandemic is that we have found new ways of communicating’
Permanent secretary Sarah Munby says that officials should not expect a ‘return to normal’