Whitehall’s top official admits need to improve civil service technical skills
Simon Case claims government has improved data handling and support for innovation but there is more to do
Report crowns Manchester top UK hotspot for tech start-ups
City is the best place outside London to start a technology business, study finds
NHS Digital and NHSX to be merged into NHS England
Leaders of technology units say that subsumption will accelerate transformation and enable...
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Homeworking cited in delays to DBS checks
Home Office publishes details of annual performance
Emergency Services Network seeks £130k commercial bigwig to manage supplier contracts
Postholder will be asked to ‘create a culture and behaviour change’
Calls for pay cut for remote-working civil servants were ‘unhelpful’, says Gove
But minister adds that return to office may deliver ‘productivity advantages’
Scotland begins programme to deliver a laptop or tablet to all schoolchildren
Government intends to deliver 700,000 devices, as well as upgrading digital infrastructure
GoldmanEye: former spy chief to advise investment bank on cyber issues
Ex-MI6 head Alex Younger approved for new role
Police chief sees ‘lots of potential’ in jet-suit technology
Senior officers and government officials attend demonstration of flying humans
Union fury over suggestion pay could be cut for remote-working civil servants
Anonymous ministerial comments prompt warnings of potential strike action
German authorities arrest UK embassy worker for allegedly leaking documents to Russian intelligence
Individual known as David S detained in Berlin
Will government reconsider digital-only status for EU nationals?
Having hitherto steadfastly maintained its opposition to issuing physical documents to recipients of EU settled status, the Home Office recently met with campaigners to listen to new proposals. PublicTechnology finds out more.
Education secretary asks watchdog to exert ‘pressure’ on universities to return to in-person teaching
Gavin Williamson believes institutions that offer only online options should not charge students full fees
Home Office seeks tech and data leaders as transformation programme rolls on
Department has brought in £300k headhunters to support recruitment
Civil service skills map and synthetic data for policymakers among proposals to improve government data use
Ideas will be tested and the best will be taken forward
Minister under fire for replacing phone before it was searched in procurement proceedings
Transparency campaigners question why Lord Bethell’s documents cannot be retrieved
Leader sought for healthtech and innovation agency
Salary of £110k on offer for new head of Office for Life Sciences
Scottish Government sticks with homeworking advice as restrictions lift
Employers are also encouraged to move towards a hybrid model in the longer term
Sunak encourages young people to return to the office
Chancellor says the connections made in the early part of his career would have been harder to forge ‘over Teams and Zoom’
NHS explores ‘digital staff passports’
System is intended to make it easier for health-service workers to move between roles
‘We need to use tech to keep up with scams’ – UK advertising regulator
David Currie explains that there is an ‘arms race’ between web platforms and criminals that are equally sophisticated
Inspector sought to examine plane crash data
Air Accidents Investigation Branch offers role gathering data on incidents
ONS digital team creates eight new roles in ‘ambitious expansion’
Statistics body recruiting for a range of positions
Legacy tech: Half of government’s £5bn annual IT spend dedicated to ‘keeping the lights on’
Report identifies continued prevalence of ageing tech as one of the major challenges facing the civil service’s digital ambitions