Will local government transformation be set back by coronavirus?
Having long suffered from a scarcity of funding, councils could be forgiven for deprioritising investments in new tech. But public and private and sector leaders tell PublicTechnology that digital has never been more important.
Scotland curbs click-and-collect services
Option can only be used for essential goods
Microsoft ‘a few weeks away’ from fixing issue affecting Scottish digital learning platform
Education Scotland stresses there is a ‘manual workaround’
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NHS Digital to lead work to supply GPs with coronavirus testing data
Primary care minister says work, which will begin within a couple of weeks, ‘needs to be carefully done to minimise safety risks’
Critics claim government review into Post Office IT scandal does not go far enough to address ‘largest miscarriage of justice in our history’
About 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted and asked to repay large sums of money that IT system wrongly suggested were missing
Review to examine whether UK electoral laws are fit for digital age
The Committee on Standards in Public Life claims that online campaigning has ‘transformed the way parties engage with voters’
Government warned over ‘lack of transparency’ on coronavirus homeless response data
Statistics regulator writes to MHCLG to criticise lack of publication of information
How can local government get it right on shared services?
Experts from councils and industry partners discuss the key benefits and challenges to consider if local authorities are to reap the rewards of sharing services
Chancellor warned coronavirus will ‘wipe out a generation of tech start-ups’ without more government support
Chair of Lib Dem taskforce – and former Siemens CEO – Juergen Maier makes urgent call for improvements to bailout scheme
DfE to gather data on thousands of pupils and parents to support coronavirus policy response
Department is to set up an online research hub to conduct regular surveys
Four-fifths of citizens want more government communication in face of fake news
Half the population believe they have been exposed to misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic and want to see more official TV ads
Rees-Mogg claims ‘compromises of virtual parliament are no longer necessary’
Motion from leader of the House of Commons will be voted on today, as MPs from all parties voice opposition
Virtual voting, remote working and fake news – the tech legacy of coronavirus
Experts discuss what the lasting impact of the pandemic might be for government and the public sector
More than 70 MPs protest plan to end virtual parliament
Cross-party group voices opposition to plans to ask members to return to Westminster
Four in five DWP staff not working remotely, figures suggest
Vast majority of staff in most departments are performing their duties from home
NHS collates data from symptom-tracker apps
NHSX works with jHub to gather and analyse information collected by third-party software
Rees-Mogg presses on with plan to end virtual parliament on 1 June
Commons leader reiterates his intention that MPs should return within two weeks, despite cross-party criticism
Cambridge University suspends all face-to-face lectures until summer 2021
Institution declares that lectures will be provided in online-only form
Scotland begins trials of contact-tracing platform
NHS Scotland is testing its contact-tracing program ahead of a nationwide rollout due later this month
MoJ signs two new suppliers to provide electronic tags for early-release scheme
Government has bought 2,000 extra tags – but only prisoners 55 have been released so far
Home Office to hold online advice events for Windrush victims
Digital initiative aims to help people understand what support is available to them
How Barnsley Council is building its own IT services and sharing them ‘for the greater good’
The authority’s IT manager Richard Kingston explains why local government needs to collaborate for the benefit of citizens
More than 10,000 a day signing up for Verify
GDS reveals measures taken to increase capacity include splitting traffic and investments made by the two commercial partners
Digital is needed now more than ever
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall salutes the outstanding efforts of public sector technologists in helping to respond to coronavirus