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Data ownership, shadow AI and One Login expansion: Five things we learned at the Socitm President’s Conference

August 27, 2025

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Cabinet Office ditches plan to build its own new IT system as part of Google-to-Microsoft switch

August 18, 2025

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Former top officials including GCDO Potter cleared for post-government jobs

August 26, 2025

Advisory Committee on Business Appointments published conditions for Mike Potter’s role at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, as well as Sir Alex Chisholm’s at BT and Sir Gareth Rhys Williams’s at PurpleSector […]...

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Education and skills News

ONS buys in leadership support for labour data and 2031 Census

August 26, 2025

Office for National Statistics awards digital consultancy Zaizi £200k contract for a solutions architect to help integrate AI and other emerging technologies in its labour market statistics and upcoming census […]...

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News Society and welfare

Equalities regulator finds police use of facial recognition ‘falls short’ on human rights law

August 26, 2025

Public body charged with protecting human rights has acknowledged the potential for the technology to tackle crime, but warns that current uses are not proportionate or sufficiently informed by safeguards […]...

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GDS report finds population smartphone data offers ‘strategic and practical benefits for public sector’

August 22, 2025

Information gathered by the devices and apps in tens millions of people’s hands could provide a valuable additional source of information in designing and delivering public services, government report suggests […]...

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Communities, housing and planning News

Cumbrian council advertises 25 tech roles including dedicated AI officers

August 22, 2025

Local authority for Westmorland and Furness is advertising a range of vacancies, including positions focused on digital innovation and artificial intelligence, that will play a key role in delivering transformation […]...

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News Science, technology and research

UK Space Agency to be subsumed into DSIT

August 22, 2025

As part of ongoing drive to consider the future of agencies and ALBs, minsters announce that dedicated space entity will move into tech department but will not lose ‘immense ambition’ […]...

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Defra retains £6m deal for customer ID system – but intends to integrate One Login

August 21, 2025

Department agrees new engagement for an initial period of two years, providing continued support for its ID and access tool, but PublicTechnology understands One Login remains in its future plans […]...

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August 26, 2025

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How departments are using data analytics to combat fraud

Jim Dunton July 31, 2025

PublicTechnology looks at case studies from a recent National Audit Office investigation into the publicsector’s ongoing efforts to halt billions of pounds in losses through fraud and error Fraud and […]...

HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

July 23, 2025

What next for the GOV.UK App?

July 3, 2025

Spending Review: How are departments planning to use tech to save billions?

June 26, 2025

An unstoppable force or an immovable object? Leaders discuss departments’ work with government’s digital centre

June 4, 2025

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Procurement should be a bridge, not a barrier, to local SMEs

July 11, 2025

Failing to secure public trust could derail government’s AI agenda

April 22, 2025

Local government leaders must give permission and support to digital colleagues to create the right future

April 16, 2025

AI tools will transform the policy profession for the better

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Trade department experiments with LLMs in ‘self-hosted, secure environment’

Sam Trendall July 24, 2025

Having found that officials wished to deploy powerful AI tools to help analyse and derive information from documents, DBT has striven to create internal infrastructure allowing them to do so […]...

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HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

Sam Trendall July 23, 2025

PublicTechnology explores the tax agency’s ambitious vision for the coming years, including ‘automating tax where possible’, investing in new analytics technology to help combat fraud, and upgrading ageing IT infrastructure […]...

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Government signs collaboration agreement with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

Sam Trendall July 23, 2025

The state will work with the Silicon Valley outfit to identity potential uses of tech in public services, as well as the possibility of the firm supporting AI Growth Zones […]...

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News Public order, justice and rights

NCA investigator convicted over theft of Bitcoin now worth £4.4m

Tevye Markson July 23, 2025

Paul Chowles, formerly an officer at the National Crime Agency, is jailed for more than five years after being found to have stolen virtual currency which he helped to confiscate […]...

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Business and industry News

DWP plans ‘risk-based approach’ to new IT investment with 70% of caseloads running through legacy systems

Sam Trendall July 22, 2025

The department’s annual review of the 2025 fiscal year reveals various advancements in its use of technology, although significant future investment is still needed to reduce reliance on ageing infrastructure […]...

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‘No evidence of data theft ‘ in recent Glasgow cyberattack

Sam Trendall July 22, 2025

The local authority for Scotland’s largest city announces that ‘forensic examination’ of the affected infrastructure has now been completed, with initial presumptions of exfiltration not yet having been borne out […]...

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Communities, housing and planning News

Only 4% of councils filed full audited data for FY24 public sector-wide accounts

Jim Dunton July 22, 2025

Auditors once again decline to give the green light to the annual roundup of the finances of organisations across government and beyond, with 167 councils providing no data at all […]...

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HMRC pegs IT contract spending at £1.6bn a year and targets move away from ‘legacy service integrators’

Sam Trendall July 21, 2025

Annual report outlines efforts to open up procurement to more providers, to support objective to ‘have fewer technologies providing our IT platforms, so we can scale them up more easily’ […]...

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Education and skills News

Major tech projects to require speedier business cases to boost transparency

Beckie Smith July 21, 2025

Ministers have announced that a wide range of Whitehall programmes of work, including delivery of many major tech deployments, are to be subject to new requirements for swiftly releasing information […]...

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