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Department unveils plans to use digital in both its work delivering aid and its function as a part of government 

Closures of eight physical locations under consideration

Policing minister pledges that Home Office will help forces invest in technology initiatives that enable officers to spend more time on the front line

Art-and-design museum claims GDPR audit is well underway as it seeks market input on possible DPO-as-a-service implementation

Commissioner Tony Porter tells PublicTechnology about continued efforts to get the Home Office to recognise the need for a surveillance camera code of practice that applies to NHS and education bodies

Department seeks digital specialist to help it prepare for public beta launch within three months and pass assessment by the end of October

Cabinet Office policy paper reveals ambitions for 10-year rollout of shared services strategy

Agency seeks supplier to facilitate online publication of information gathered through national survey as it nears 100-year cut-off

British Overseas Territory Saint Helena publicises three-year contract to be awarded for provision of hardware, software, and services

PublicTechnology talks to the think tank’s digital and data specialist Eleonora Harwich about how AI could help eradicate disparity in the quality of healthcare and why GDS needs to focus more on the needs of its colleagues in Whitehall

New jobs for former GDS minister Caroline Nokes and digital minister Matt Hancock, with no word yet on if they will be directly replaced and by whom

Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire has redesigned its council tax service to better work with ‘the quirks of how we actually think’. Gill Hitchcock finds out more

Concern still mounting about ‘most disturbing issue to hit the industry for decades’

Investigation will form part of wider Treasury Committee probe into impact of childcare policy

In a town gaining 40,000 extra citizens each decade, the council's strategy chief Geoff Snelson tells PublicTechnology why smart-city ideas and technology need to be an intrinsic part of planning for the short- and long-term future

Department accrued a five-year backlog of requests, notice from watchdog reveals

Whitehall siloes should be broken by creating a centralised body to collate and oversee the use of data, believes Johan Hogsander of Transform

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

The keeper of the UK's national archive unlocks its secrets

The leader of the national innovation organisation looks back on 10 years of work

The department's perm sec on a year of change