Home Office to text one million passport holders with no-deal travel warning
Department to inform citizens that they may need to renew their passports earlier than expected
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Scotland unveils plan to become ‘5G leader’
Technology could boost economy by £35bn, according to Scottish Government
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DWP scraps 55p-a-minute helpline charges but stresses 99% of Universal Credit claims are made online
Calls to helplines for all department’s services will be toll-free by the end of 2017
Socitm and Eduserv launch shared services audit tool for councils
Online platform will help assess readiness for new engagements and performance of existing deals
Ministry of Defence signs £400k paging services deal
Ageing communications platform gets another boost from the UK public sector
Social networks could face same regulation as news sites, government says
Prime minister’s spokesperson claims government is examining ‘the role Google and Facebook play in the news environment’
GDS preps large-scale rollout of GovWifi and predicts it will ‘change the way civil servants work’
Wireless internet service passes beta assessment and is now available in more than 100 locations across the UK
Digital chief lifts lid on how HMRC pulled off the biggest tax change in 70 years without anyone noticing
Interim CDIO Mike Potter also discusses how the department is leading the way on mobile apps and blockchain, and why he wants a tax service built around life events
NHS app to offer GP appointments and access to medical records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt announces plans for England-wide rollout of platform, which will also provide 111 access and repeat prescriptions
Highways England looks to wearable tech to ‘monitor location and wellbeing’ of staff
Motorway workers set to be equipped with ‘discreet, robust, and lightweight’ piece of kit
ICO fines Islington Council £70,000 after website endangers 89,000 people’s data
Parking ticket review service permitted unauthorised access to citizen data, investigation finds
Ordnance Survey to launch first augmented reality offering
New addition to mobile app will be shown to members of the public for the first time at next weekend's Countryfile Live show
All GP surgeries in England to have WiFi by the end of the year
Hospitals and secondary-care facilities to follow in 2018, NHS Digital has announced
Interview: Inside one further education college’s virtual desktop revolution
As it moves to a new £53m flagship campus, Ayrshire College has removed the distinction between IT and general-purpose classrooms. Sam Trendall meets ICT manager Brad Johnstone to hear more
Group chat an indispensable tool within Whitehall
Group chat services can make civil servants more efficient by reducing email overload. If government does not embrace them, it will lose out
Kent Police seeks multimillion pound overhaul of crime scene info systems
South East police force is looking for a supplier to build a new digital asset management system that could be rolled out right across the UK
Three London borough councils to co-develop families’ case management ‘app store’
The London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City and Hammersmith and Fulham to create digital tools to improve communication between families and children’s services and allow social workers to work ‘on the go’
Mobile responsive council websites on the increase, finds survey – but quality declines
Web and digital managers must engage service managers to create ‘properly digital’ services, not just put a service online, says Socitm review team
Courts' mobile innovation nominated for national award
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service digital tool for ushers is ‘foundation for future innovation’ and sole department nominee in its category
Councils improve performance on mobile optimisation
Socitm warns that councils lagging behind on mobile configuration risk shutting out users with disabilities.
Vodafone to cut off pager network in decision that could unsettle NHS workers
Company ditches plan to sell business after competition watchdog announces investigation - a move that will see the healthcare staff that rely on the tech left with no choice of network
PAC chair identifies government data, contracts and shared services as areas of concern
HMRC, Crown Commercial Service and Whitehall’s use of data come under fire in Meg Hillier’s annual report
Chancellor to jettison Making Tax Digital plans from Finance Bill
Wash-up period sees government compromise to rush crucial tax legislation through House of Commons today