Poor data and lack of strategy perpetuate Whitehall skills gaps, report finds
Study from the IfG disputes notion civil service is dominated by generalists, but that experts’ impact is stymied
Trials to monitor smart meter data in elderly care
Scottish institutions to work with consenting older citizens to track energy usage
Two thirds of workers did not work from home at all in 2020, ONS data finds
Last year saw a big rise, but comfortable majority still work on-site
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Government considers role of technology in enforcing quarantine
Minister says mandating isolation is ‘right course of action’
Government opens non-digital routes for home Covid tests
Video call service is also available for citizens with visual impairments
Personal data of 600 people exposed by Scottish Borders Council data breach
Email addresses and info about eligibility for payments accidentally revealed
Delayed publication of coronavirus contracts ruled unlawful
Court finds that Matt Hancock broke the law
EU gives provisional thumbs-up to UK privacy regime
Country receives draft adequacy decision
Data-protection watchdog offers toolkit for analytics projects
ICO offers resources to assess legality and work with data subjects
SMEs offered funds to boost data skills
Smaller firms in Scotland offered access to new sources of support
GOV.UK service performance platform to close
Centralised tool to be retired next month with onus shifted to departments to publish their own data
Stroud council plans £400k digital drive
Gloucestershire town to implement digital platform
‘Plagued by cronyism’ – shadow minister calls for end to emergency procurement measures
Relaxation of usual processes was first announced almost a year ago
Extra 800,000 people to be prioritised for vaccine after use of ‘predictive risk’ technology
Government identifies additional cohort of at-risk people
MPs urge government to clarify future of proposed £800m R&D unit
Dominic Cummings-supported plans for a high-risk science and tech research agency appear to have stalled
HMRC seeks ops head for anti-fraud unit
Service aims to improve use of tech as part of transformation programme
Investigations may lack data during three-month process to restore 200,000 police records
Minister reveals former Met commissioner will lead review into incident
Cabinet Office denies FOI blacklist
Campaigners call for parliamentary investigation into handling of requests
Digital use of vehicle tax and driving test services spiked in April
Use of digital channels has fallen back since the first lockdown, Department for Transport data shows
Digital identity plans to promote 'vouching' by professionals
Government will set legal requirements for digital identity providers rather than consider national identity cards
NAO finds government struggled with data needed to build shielding list
Report finds 126,000 people were told to shield unnecessarily, as well as 30,000 who had already died
Ben Goldacre to review research use of health data
Head of Oxford University DataLab and ‘Bad Science’ author to report findings in April
Digitisation will help make census safe says ONS
Statistical agency hopes that three-quarters of responses in England and Wales will be digital
Covid-19 app has told more than 1.7m people to isolate
DHSC picks higher of Turing Institute’s two estimates of number of cases averted