The two departments launched a joint service earlier this year allowing citizens to check their state pension forecast, and take steps make payments to cover any gaps in qualifying years […]...
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Home Office signs £2m deal to ‘embed cyber risk management and governance across department’
Department awards contract of potentially four years to KPMG which, in the coming months, will work to support efforts to improve governance, training, and use of data to inform decisions […]...
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Newly created National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority seeks £200k chief
The agency being established to take on duties from the National Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure and Projects Authority is now inviting applications from candidates interested in becoming the founding CEO […]...
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Legacy tech: Defra preps for exit from three datacentre after shutting down 50 ageing apps
The environment department’s annual report indicates that scores of applications were successfully closed down or remediated during the 2023-24 year, enabling the imminent closure of a clutch of infrastructure facilities […]...
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GOV.UK ID Check app offers verification via expired immigration docs
Shortly after the Home Office revealed that border authorities would continue to process travellers with out-of-date BRP cards, GDS announces the documents can also be used for online government services […]...
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Report calls on police to do more for cybercrime victims
Expert researchers have published a study drawing on input from hundreds of victims, many of whom chose not to tell police about crimes, or found little benefit in doing so […]...
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Major government survey finds ‘public perceptions of AI are dominated by concerns’
Yearly research contains feedback from more than 5,000 people, with opinion almost completely split on whether emerging technology will have a broadly positive or negative impact on individuals and society […]...
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DWP embarks on ‘ambitious journey’ to ensure trauma-informed services
Minister provides details of an initiative that will lean on internal and external expertise with the aim of better ensuring that interactions with citizens are more sensitive to past experiences […]...
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New chief Wormald preps Whitehall for ‘re-wiring of the way the government works’
After Chris Wormald’s appointment as the new cabinet secretary, the incoming boss has written to his fellow officials to advise that they will all need to work in new ways […]...
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Government creates gen AI ‘Succession Select’ tool to find civil servants for top digital jobs
A system created by the Central Digital and Data Office uses a large language model to create idealised career profiles and then map these onto the Whitehall’s existing tech workforce […]...
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