All posts tagged "UK government"

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  Third edition of Civil Service Data Challenge opens for entries

  The UK Civil Service Data Challenge, which aims to identify ways that government can improve how it uses data to deliver public services, has opened for entries for 2023-24. Cabinet

  • Posted October 12, 2023
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  UK cabinet secretary salutes COVID data heroes and discusses potential of AI at Public Service Data Live

  “There were many public service heroes in COVID, but I always make sure that statisticians and our data experts get a shout out,” Simon Case, the UK’s cabinet secretary has

  • Posted September 14, 2023
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  UK government risk register sets out 89 serious threats to national security and safety

  The UK has set out the top threats the country faces, as part of what a senior civil servant said was an effort to provide a “comprehensive understanding of the

  • Posted August 6, 2023
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  UK government accused of ‘civil service bashing’ in remote working row

  A UK civil service union accused some government ministers of indulging in “civil service bashing” while another warned of industrial action, after a war of words was sparked this week about civil servants’ return to the office.  The flurry of stories

  • Posted August 12, 2021
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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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  An iconoclast in Number 10: Dominic Cummings returns to government

  The last time Dominic Cummings worked in government, fireworks flew as he clashed with officials in the education department. Having masterminded the Vote Leave campaign, he’s now returning to a

  • Posted July 24, 2019
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  Government communications ‘struggling’ to keep up in digital age, says new report

  Rapid technological change and growing distrust of political elites are creating “unprecedented difficulties” for government communications functions in their work supporting public policy, according to a new report by advertising

  • Posted January 19, 2017
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  UK government launches new single departmental business plans, but attracts criticism

  New departmental business plans introduced by the UK government to strengthen financial management and provide a visions of how ministries will deliver the government’s priorities have been criticised for providing

  • Posted February 22, 2016
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  Kevin White, Former Director-General Of HR, UK Home Office: Exclusive Interview

  After 39 years as a UK civil servant, Kevin White has just retired from his post as HR director general. He tells Global Government Forum about his views on performance

  • Posted August 13, 2015
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  ‘We must reform WHO now’, says UK chief medical officer

  The chief medical adviser to the UK government has called for an urgent reform of the World Health Organisation (WHO), after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa revealed that “we

  • Posted April 7, 2015
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