DWP offers £180k for new CIO
Department commences search for replacement for Mayank Prakash and confirms Simon McKinnon as interim tech chief
EU citizens without Android devices could have to travel 250 miles to scan documents for settlement scheme pilot
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The time is now to bridge the digital divide
Eliminating digital exclusion would reduce inequality and give the economy a multibillion-pound boost, according to Helen Milner of Good Things Foundation
Lords tell HMRC to delay Making Tax Digital for VAT rollout by one year
Select committee finds that department is ‘not listening to small businesses’
Government offers charities £1m funding pot to grow digital skills
Money can be used to improve online fundraising efforts or use of social media
‘It is a lot easier to put the blueberries in the muffin at the beginning’ – how to design a government service
Leading government design professionals share their thoughts on how to make services as inclusive as possible
HMRC praised for use of public consultations on Making Tax Digital programme
Lords committee commends tax agency for process used to develop and roll out digitisation project
Experts pour cold water on digital services tax proposal
Onlookers predict tax on tech titans will be ineffective
‘Cracks are showing’ as HMRC juggles Brexit prep and day-to-day business, MPs find
Fraud and error rates predicted to rise and IT system to manage exports ‘very unlikely to be ready’ for Brexit, according to Public Accounts Committee
Departing DWP digital chief Prakash to take transformation role at British Gas owner
Mayank Prakash will lead digitisation of Centrica Consumer
Ill-conceived business cases stymieing government digital transformation, IfG report finds
Think tank claims that Treasury guidance encourages ‘unreasonable certainty’ when projects are launched
Wanted: hacking hobbyists and acronym avoiders – how to land a digital job at DWP
Ahead of plans to ‘hire hundreds’ of techies, the department has revealed the secret to what it looks for in a CV
DWP calls hack to create digital solutions that help vulnerable people access services
Hack the North 2.0 will bring together volunteers from many digital specialisms - and the best ideas could be made into public services
The third sector must play a key role in ‘social digital government’
Government needs to make sure it is integrating resources from different places in support of common goals, according to Neil McEvoy of Digital Scotland
Sharing civil service smart-working secrets
HMRC has been lauded for its adoption of flexible working tools and practices. Luke Heselwood of think tank Reform believes the department’s Whitehall peers could learn from the tax agency’s example
Senior officials facing ‘very serious questions’ from MPs over Emergency Services Network
Chair Meg Hillier says Public Accounts Committee is ‘determined to get to the bottom’ of problems that have beset rollout of new infrastructure
DWP digital chief Prakash to leave civil service
Peers pay tribute as CDIO announces he will depart Whitehall around the end of the year
Hackney to build digital transfer of care tool
London borough to work with NHS and other public agencies on development of platform
HMRC seeks squad of IT managers
Department reveals it is currently recruiting for 23 separate positions
‘What to do when someone dies’ becomes government’s latest step-by-step service
Drive to design end-to-end user journeys continues
Reading seeks data analytics tool to assess impact of welfare reform on low-income households
Council interested in deploying product that could help understand economic effect on neighbourhoods, streets, and individual households
HMRC customs system rolled out to first wave of importers
Project to deliver new system for processing declarations achieves ‘major milestone’
Inside the Canadian Digital Service – why immigration transformation represents its ‘first big opportunity’
In the second of our two-part feature, senior figures at the government transformation agency talk through the services it has built so far and how it intends to be ‘a bit more bold’ in its second year