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Government defends Test and Trace as proportion of contacts being reached drops sharply
In the first two weeks tracers were successfully reaching more than nine in ten identified close contacts, but this has now fallen to less than three quarters
Government turns to Instagram to seek policy guidance from teenagers
New initiative will seek to gain views of people aged 13 to 25
Bradford Council looks to chatbots
Authority considers deployment of technology to reduce use of phone and face to face support
Gove urges structural change of ‘government machine’ in call for reform
Minister discusses need for new training campus and greater use of data in evaluation of projects
Home Office ramps up video asylum interviews as backlog passes 50,000
The oldest claim awaiting decision was filed eight years ago and 10,000 more were added to the waiting list in the first three months of 2020 alone
Disinformation poses ‘existential threat’ to democracy, parliamentary committee warns
Report from crossbench group of peers accuses government of failing to deal with a growing problem
DWP agrees to fix digital issues after dropping legal battle over UC flaw
Department’s decision to retreat from lawsuit represents a victory for four single mothers
HMRC claims issue with online tax rebate system fixed after days of problems
Citizens report inability to claim repayments and delays to those that have already claimed
Contact-tracing success rate drops
Data shows declines in the proportion of both confirmed cases and their contacts being reached by tracers
Hancock says coronavirus app will rely on self-declaration
Health secretary refuses to provide estimate for launch date of new technology
NHS data watchdog calls for ‘no surprises’ rule in use of patient info
Consultation opened on addition of eighth principle for the health system’s use of data
Test and trace scheme failing to reach more than one in four coronavirus cases
Almost 4,000 people that have test positive have not been contacted by tracers
Home-schooling technology demands hits poorer families hardest, study finds
Research shows children learning or mobile phones and parents stretching budgets to buy new equipment
Lawfulness of government visa algorithm challenged
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants files judicial review
Defra hunts £135k operations chief to push on with transformation
Department advertises for vacant senior managerial position
NAO finds big gaps in Home Office data on illegal immigration and enforcement
Report reveals most recent estimate for people in the country illegally dates from 2005
Government scraps £12m contact-tracing app after finding it does not work on iPhones
UK will switch to Google and Apple system after discovering that less than one in 20 contacts were detected on the latter’s devices by the NHS’s own system
Minister says NHS contact-tracing app ‘isn’t a priority’ and may not launch until winter
Date for possible rollout of technology has been pushed back significantly
Digital trade a key focus of talks with ‘old friends’ Australia and New Zealand
Government cites importance of ‘pivoting towards Asia-Pacific’
Digital pros among 100 furloughed citizens pitching in at government departments
Civil service HR top dog thanks volunteers
Fraud risk too high to host citizenship test remotely, immigration minister claims
Testing centres are now reopen and online tests may be considered in future