Home Office seeks software developers to meet ‘daring targets’ for use of automation
Department looks for trio of experts to join specialist team
Public covid probe seeks data leader to take on ‘critical role for the inquiry’s reputation’
Post comes with £70,000-plus salary and responsibility for data protection
DBS staff set for more strikes in stand-off with IT outsourcer
Contact-centre workers have previously been offered a 3.25% raise by Hinduja Global Solutions...
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Procurement agency unveils chief commercial officer role
Newly created CCS post comes with potential £194k pay packet and remit including driving ‘digital agenda’
Home Office offers £85k for automation chief
New senior hire will oversee ‘key strategic focus’
MPs maintain scrutiny of Cabinet Office FoI hub
Parliamentary committee takes steps to try and ensure independence and rigour of upcoming review
‘A core part of national infrastructure’ – ministers consider regulating to make the cloud safer
Consultation launched seeking feedback on risks and mitigations for systems that now underpin a wide range of ‘essential services’
Government guidelines aim to tackle ‘frictions and barriers’ in departmental data-sharing
New governance framework sets out to help solve ‘non-technical’ challenges
Fraud challenges see HMRC and DWP named among ‘departments of concern’
Public spending watchdog points to issues with controls on fraud and error
GM crops: Scotland and Westminster set for stand-off over ‘gene-editing technology’
UK government ministers write to Scottish counterparts but get seemingly chilly response
Scottish ministers failing to meet response deadline for correspondence
New permanent secretary claims he wants to improve service levels
No move for GDS and CDDO as part of Cabinet Office split
Chunks of central department will move to Downing Street, but digital agencies are to remain part of new-look ‘corporate HQ’ of government
BEIS seeks £160k co-leader to oversee space, net zero and nuclear clean-up
Department advertises vacant role as second perm sec, with duties including several major programmes
Government app aims to help civil servants identify foreign spies on LinkedIn
Software released by CPNI is intended to enable website users to spot the estimated 10,000 malicious approaches made each year
NHS signs £4.5m deal to ‘transform’ demographic data use and better match patients to records
Work aims to make it easier for NHS number to be found, which contract says will help reduce issues such as false death notices
Civil service cuts: Graduate scheme to be suspended after next year, reports claim
Graduate recruitment programme – which brings in 100 budding digital leaders each year – is rumoured to be subject to hiring freeze
Local government chiefs claim return to hybrid meetings would improve councillor diversity
County Council Network joins a list of bodies calling for reintroduction of legislation allowing remote participation
Consultants earning average of £1,200 a day account for an eighth of UKHSA workforce
CEO Harries tells MPs that 58% of workers at public-health agency are civil servants
Majority of firms collect personal data, government report finds
Potential of data economy – and importance of protecting information – highlighted by study
Statistics watchdog warns PM again over inaccurate claim on employment increase
In his ninth such proclamation in the last six months, Boris Johnson cited a rise of 500,000 since 2020 – rather than a decline of 588,000
Ex-consultancy bigwig named as first leader of government risk profession
Clive Martin – former EY partner with background in digital learning and communication – is appointed as head of newly established discipline
Minister targets digitisation of all immigration documents by end of 2024
Immigration minister Kevin Foster reiterates ambition to eliminate paper processes
All top Whitehall jobs to be open to external recruitment
Cabinet Office minister reveals that reform policy has now been put into effect
Ransomware: Cabinet minister sounds alarm over ‘greatest cyberthreat to the UK’
Steve Barclay urges greater reporting of attacks