 
		Legacy tech: Defra preps for exit from three datacentre after shutting down 50 ageing apps
The environment department’s annual report indicates that scores of applications were successfully closed down or
            		 
		GOV.UK ID Check app offers verification via expired immigration docs
Shortly after the Home Office revealed that border authorities would continue to process travellers with
            		 
		Report calls on police to do more for cybercrime victims
Expert researchers have published a study drawing on input from hundreds of victims, many of
            		 
		Major government survey finds ‘public perceptions of AI are dominated by concerns’
Yearly research contains feedback from more than 5,000 people, with opinion almost completely split on
            		 
		DWP embarks on ‘ambitious journey’ to ensure trauma-informed services
Minister provides details of an initiative that will lean on internal and external expertise with
            		 
		New chief Wormald preps Whitehall for ‘re-wiring of the way the government works’
After Chris Wormald’s appointment as the new cabinet secretary, the incoming boss has written to
            		 
		Government creates gen AI ‘Succession Select’ tool to find civil servants for top digital jobs
A system created by the Central Digital and Data Office uses a large language model
            		 
		CCS extends multibillion-pound digital frameworks after delay to new procurement rules
With reforms delayed until next year, procurement agency takes steps to lengthen the Digital Outcomes
            		 
		Tech firms have weeks to comply with online safety rules or face ‘full extent of enforcement powers’
As the Online Safety Act comes fully into effect, Ofcom has published guidelines for the
            		 
		DWP insolvency protection body sets project to review cyber capability and create new strategy
Public corporation the Pension Protection Fund has signed awarded to a major cyber consultancy a
            		 
		Welsh police equipped with frontline facial-recognition app
Officers across the South Wales and Gwent forces will be equipped with mobile software to
            		 
		Joanna Davinson returns as government CDO and leader of new ‘digital centre’
Former CDDO head is to retake the reins of government tech, as the new administration
            		 
		DWP signs £1m digital design deal to support plans for merger of Housing Benefit and Pension Credit
As the new Labour government presses on with unification plans first set out 13 years
            		 
		Google AI-powered updates ‘make it quicker and easier to search on GOV.UK’
GDS sheds light on a range of amendments to government’s online infrastructure, which the tech
            		 
		Supplier of IT system for Scottish GPs hits the wall
The UK subsidiary of French tech firm Cegedim has voluntarily entered administration, with doctors’ trade
            		 
		Review of courts system asked to consider AI as part of ‘once-in-a-generation reform’
Sir Brian Leveson, who famously probed press practices, is to conduct a similar exercise in
            		 
		DWP seeks duo of digital leaders for fraud and debt operations
Department advertises pair of vacant positions for recruits to help in its efforts to cut
            		 
		Spending review: Departments subject to expert ‘challenge panels’ as online tool invites policy proposals from public
As the government formally commences its next long-term departmental funding exercise, plans have been unveiled
            		