Department retains specialist firm to help explore how data science models and insights could inform the content of mandatory weekly meetings between work coaches and new claimants of out-of-work benefits […]...

Clyde Valley Housing Association, which owns and manages thousands of Lanarkshire properties, has been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office after revealing residents’ personal data in antisocial behaviour complaint records […]...

Police in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire wish to examine the possibility of self-guided online programmes for those that have committed the likes of minor criminal damage or antisocial behaviour […]...

The UK’s new online safety regulator publishes its annual assessment on children’s media use, including revelations that a third of those aged between five and seven use the internet independently […]...

Department presses on with implementation of wider plan to eliminate all physical immigration documents with digital versions, which government claims are more secure and can help combat fraud and abuse […]...

After scores of civil society groups oppose new measures, department claims any suggestions that the proposed powers will ‘reveal information about people’s movements, opinions and medical information are entirely false’ […]...

A dedicated team with the department will work with Capgemini over the coming months to assess potential options to support sharing of government information to help identify those at risk […]...

Home Office report finds that many requests for external data lack the necessary rationale and are often geared to probing a victim’s reliability, rather than establishing facts of the incident […]...

The head of the Public Accounts Committee pushes back on the department’s claim that fraudsters could benefit from the release of data on whether automation is hampering legitimate benefit claimants […]...