All posts tagged "Home Office"

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  UK Home Office launches new digital strategy

  The Home Office is to establish a more “flexible and collective” approach to digital transformation – including consolidating its technology products and becoming more data-driven – in a three-year strategy

  • Posted July 15, 2021
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  Home Office considers complaints examiner after scathing ombudsman report

  The UK Home Office could introduce an independent complaints examiner (ICE) after a scathing report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, which found that a ‘Windrush generation’ UK resident

  • Posted June 8, 2021
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  Former ethics chief quits, leaving Patel the last one standing

  Helen MacNamara, the UK’s deputy cabinet secretary and the civil service’s former head of propriety and ethics, is to leave government next month for a new job as director of

  • Posted January 22, 2021
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  Former UK civil service chief says home secretary should resign

  The former UK Cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell today added his voice to those calling for home secretary Priti Patel to resign. This follows an independent report, which found that she

  • Posted November 20, 2020
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  Restoring goodwill: former UK HR chief Kevin White on repairing national government’s damaged reputation

  The UK’s response to COVID-19 fostered a suspicion of leadership, says former UK HR chief Kevin White – but it’s also an opportunity to revive trust in public services. The

  • Posted November 13, 2020
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  UK Home Office failing ‘to learn from its numerous mistakes’, say MPs

  The UK Home Office has “little idea” of the impact of its Immigration Enforcement Directorate’s £400m (US$512m) annual spending and lacks an end-to-end understanding of the country’s immigration system, according

  • Posted September 21, 2020
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  Former UK Home Office chief launches unfair dismissal claim

  Sir Philip Rutnam, who resigned as Home Office permanent secretary on 29 February alleging bullying by home secretary Priti Patel, has lodged legal proceedings against her. The FDA – the

  • Posted April 20, 2020
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  Addressing challenges through collaboration: the benefits of crown-to-crown payments processing

  The Home Office Payment Processing Service (HOPPS) managed more than 700,000 visa applications a year. The service was experiencing challenges – not only with the sheer volume of applications but

  • Posted April 15, 2020
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  UK Home Office perm sec quits, alleging bullying and smears by home secretary

  The Home Office permanent secretary, Sir Philip Rutnam, resigned on Saturday after 33 years in the civil service, issuing a statement in which he accused home secretary Priti Patel of

  • Posted March 2, 2020
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  UK education department faces sanction over data protection breaches

  The UK Department for Education (DfE) is facing disciplinary action for what a watchdog has called “wide ranging and serious concerns” over data protection breaches. Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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