Dec 3, 2024 · Securing the future of public services The Cyber Security Conference 2024, brought to you by PublicTechnology, will provide public sector IT security professionals with the chance to explore, collectively, the current threat landscape, whilst sharing their experiences of how to navigate it. Featuring an array of leading contributors from across the public sector and industry, the event will ...

Dec 16, 2024 · The UK subsidiary of French tech firm Cegedim has voluntarily entered administration, with doctors’ trade bodies ‘closely monitoring’ the situation as NHS leaders claim services are not currently at risk The main IT software supplier to Scottish GPs has gone into administration due to “financ

Dec 3, 2024 · The Cerberus programme is intended to provide Border Force with a new and unified data analytics system and, in doing so, avoid failures of intelligence and help tackle organised crime Home Office leaders have given a clean bill of health to an ongoing £200m-plus programme of work intended to

Nov 4, 2024 · The minister for data protection and telecoms, Chris Bryant, said that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology “chairs a quarterly cross-government group on this issue, to which all government departments are invited”. The meeting helps DSIT in its work to track any government bodies that continue to rely on ISDN or PSTN – and the efforts being undertaken to enable a ...

Oct 10, 2024 · Scrutiny documents reveal that the current top priorities for Home Office officials working on delivering the much-delayed Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme include preparing for potential legal challenges to the programme’s commercial arrangements. Newly released details of the latest formal accounting officer assessment for ESMCP – a review that was conducted in August ...

Oct 17, 2024 · Home Office leaders have greenlit a major project in which tens of millions of pounds will be spent on “transforming people capabilities, process and technology” across the UK’s asylum system. Work on establishing the Asylum Transformation Programme began in 2021 and the initiative formally became part of the Government Major Project Portfolio (GMPP) at the start of 2023/24 year. This ...

Nov 21, 2024 · Major project to bring digitisation and reform to UK Security Vetting is formally scrapped but, via three discrete workstreams, Cabinet Office claims that improvements to tech and security will proceed The Cabinet Office has shut down a transformation programme designed to improve the perform

Nov 25, 2024 · At a press conference during the G20 summit in Brazil, Keir Starmer was asked if he planned to join the platform, or for government departments to open official accounts. He said: “No plans at the moment, we’re obviously still using Twitter.” He added: “What’s important for a government is that we’re able to reach as many people and communicate with as …

Dec 23, 2024 · A job advertisement for the role offers £200,000 a year for the Senior Civil Service pay band 3 role, which will see the successful applicant also serve as head of the government’s project delivery function. On top of the salary, the job comes with a civil service pension. NISTA will combine the functions of the current National Infrastructure Commission and …

Oct 28, 2024 · The regime, introduced by the Rishi Sunak government last November as a way to cap technology-enabled hybrid-working freedoms that were a necessity during the pandemic, was widely criticised by civil service unions at the time. Mark Serwotka, the then general-secretary of the PCS union, described the 60% rule as “arbitrary” and symptomatic of a “regressive” government. Dave Penman ...