Courts workers agree to end dispute over IT system troubles
Union’s agreement with HMCTS includes concessions over how cases are inputted and admission of faults with new platform
DWP-led shared services group signs £1.4m consultancy deal to help shape ‘technical vision’
Synergy cluster seeks input ahead of going to market
Number of services using GOV.UK Notify has quadrupled since 2020
GDS reveals that uptake of messaging platform shot up during pandemic
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ICO issues warning over ‘emotion analysis technologies’
Regulator claims new systems come with inherent risk of ‘systemic bias, inaccuracy and even discrimination’
DWP relaunches £200k bid to attract CDIO
Role was previously open for applications in August
‘DCMS can speak with a single, expert voice on digital policy within government’
Perm sec Healey claims that department’s emergence as the go-to place for tech policy is ‘an incredible asset to the UK’
DVLA recruiting four senior techies to tackle legacy and help create ‘digital workplace’
Government agency opens hiring process for quartet of IT leadership posts
DWP looks to embed machine-readable laws into digital ‘Universal Credit navigator’
Department works with government lawyers and specialist tech firm to pursue ‘rules as code’ project
Integration of NHS Digital brought forward to January
Government claims merger will improve data sharing across health service
Digital and robotics key to HMRC cuts, CEO says
Demand for headcount reductions and other savings can be achieved via use of tech in services and operations, Jim Harra tells MPs
For the US government, good design is a civic duty
In light of plans to overhaul USA.gov, YuJune Park of Parsons School of Design explains the revamp must put citizens first
Chris Philp takes ministerial reins of GDS and CDDO
Digital agencies have yet another new politician in charge after Croydon South MP is moved on from the Treasury
Foreign Office signs £7.5m two-year deal to support cyber transformation
Department signs deal with defence contractor
Leeds looks to robotics to help transform services despite ‘significant financial challenges’
City council to undertake year-long six-figure programme of work
Whitehall job cuts: Truss to drop Johnson’s timetable in favour of efficiency-based ‘hybrid model’
Reports claim new PM and her cabinet could reinstate Fast Stream and pursue savings through efficiencies and natural churn
GDS to offer departments new GOV.UK Forms design platform
Online Redundancy Payments service is the first to be built using tool, which aims to tackle the difficulties caused by the thousands of services that rely on PDFs
Foreign Office seeks £120k technology leader
Department recruits for CTO to ‘build trust at the highest levels in the potential of technology’
UK places fifth in global ranking of government service design
Report recognises online accessibility but stresses need for unified login service
Edinburgh to train tram drivers using custom VR simulator
New line to benefit from state-of-the-art system
‘Catalyst for improvements’ – cuts offer opportunity to drive transformation, MoD chief says
Permanent secretary writes to MPs to outline ministry’s intention to promote automation and shared services
EXCL: Trader woes – inside customs firms’ months of HMRC struggle
As work continues on the imminent switch-off of the UK’s 30-year-old customs IT platform, many of its users believed that issues with government internal systems meant that they too were facing imminent closure. PublicTechnology investigates.
Departments asked to set out additional savings – alongside growth plans
Agencies will be tasked with both identifying efficiencies and ways in which they can support chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ambitions to increase GDP
DWP signs £2m data deal to better understand ‘citizen point of view’
Departmental analysts are working on a project to integrate data sets and derive new insights
HMRC lifts lid on £200m programme to achieve data-protection compliance
Recently released information provides details of three-year project to minimise risk and improve use of data