MoD redesigns online Armed Forces memorial
Service has been redeveloped to improve ease of use and better adhere to GDS standards
DWP signs £100k deal to ensure accessibility of Universal Credit digital services
Consultancy brought in on two-year contract to deliver audits and recommend improvements
Government vetting processes hampered by ‘old and unstable’ technology
NAO report finds ageing IT is a major contributor to the performance issues at UKSV
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Graduate scheme to impart digital skills to future NI Civil Service leaders
Fast Stream-style programme will offer candidates ‘diverse and challenging placements’
Rewiring government: improving outcome management
Paul Pick-Aluas, Strategy & Transformation, Public Sector at Salesforce, explains how governments can use technology innovation to improve how it can analyse outcomes
HM Land Registry to smooth home-buying with digitisation
Organisation plans to automate up to 70% of all ownership changes by 2024-25
Cabinet Office to lose one in four staff – but no detail yet on impact for digital agencies
Jacob Rees Mogg trailed 25% job cuts in a Telegraph article, which unions label as the minister’s latest in a series of ‘increasingly bizarre’ pronouncements
Companies House revamps online filing for businesses
Agency unveils new features for WebFiling account
Home Office looks to test services with those lacking digital confidence
Department seeks support finding research participants from potentially excluded groups
Cybercrime picked as key focus for new National Crime Agency chief
Graeme Biggar has finally been confirmed as the head of the national body after a rerun of the procurement process
Transfer of probation services to MoJ dogged by IT issues, report finds
Institute for Government says that renationalisation process was undertaken too quickly – but was ultimately ‘mostly successful’
Sunak’s suggestions for civil service shake-up get frosty reception
Aspiring PM ‘doesn’t understand the basics’ of how government works, critics claim
Police database: Home Office retains Fujitsu for £48m mainframe support after ‘lack of response’ from alternative suppliers
Contract-award notice reveals IT heavyweight has been signed to a four-year deal
Incoming G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes frameworks formally delayed as work continues on new buying platform
Procurement agency says public bodies can continue to use incumbent vehicles
Legacy costs take spending on digital border programme to £700m
But Home Office clams there ‘has been no increase or acceleration’ in underlying cost of scheme
Edinburgh seeks £12m support for digital inclusion and growth projects
Local authority makes bid for funding from central government
GOV.UK redesign aims to improve mobile experience with focus on ‘topic-based browsing’
Update to site is intended to better serve mobile users – who now constitute two thirds of traffic
Cabinet Office considers options for talented interns after suspension of government graduate scheme
Central department says it 'remains committed to internship programmes' and seek to find possibilities for those who would normally be fast-tracked into paused Fast Stream scheme
CDDO offers £160k for chief technology officer to set cross-government strategy for digital profession
Cabinet Office unit is seeking a technology leader whose remit will include spearheading DDaT professionals’ efforts to decommission legacy system
Companies House cites digital transformation in decision not to reopen London office and service counters
Public counters across the UK are also to remain closed but government body indicates no jobs will be lost
Up to one in four passport applications still processed by legacy system, minister admits
The new digital application processing platform was originally due to be fully implemented by 2019
Arch reformer Maude kicks off probe of government efficiency
Former Cabinet Office minister begins review of civil service effectiveness
Final lockdown announcement set hourly traffic record for GOV.UK
More than three million people visited government’s website as Boris Johnson informed the country of new restrictions