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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure

UK Government strengthens UK-Japan partnership on cyber

APM Chair Milla Mazilu wins Chief Data Officer award at Digital Technology Leaders Awards

Guest blog: Cross-Government Data Sharing: Enable Business Value & Achieve Mission at Scale

How we migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime

Jobs at the AI Safety Institute

Online predator who blackmailed and abused dozens of children and adults is jailed

Save money on your phone, broadband, and pay-TV bills in 2024

 
Active Wellbeing 2024 – 1-29 February

Active Wellbeing is back with a brand-new challenge to encourage everyone to be active whether you’re at the beginning of your journey and taking those first steps to being involved or need some extra motivation to keep going on your fitness journey, Active Wellbeing is here to support you. 

This February, join us for a month-long Around-the-World challenge. With plenty of chances to win prizes for your team and yourself. Whether you walk, run, cycle, swim or get outside in the garden, every bit of activity counts! You can create a team, invite your colleagues and friends, or join a ready-made group. It’s that easy to get involved.

Sign up today, and don’t forget to join us for our celebration week from 22 January, with events, funding, prizes and more to prepare you for the challenge starting 1 February.

To learn more and sign up visit Activewellbeing.me.uk #AW24

 
Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

Norovirus cases grow as thousands still in hospital with winter viruses

Homeless Link signs joint letter to protect homelessness services from decommissioning

300 people to benefit from new treatment for advanced breast cancer recommended by NICE following price deal

Criminal Justice Bill Update

Funding opportunity for smaller organisations

Cervical cancer rates have reduced by almost 90%, but could cervical cancer become a thing of the past?

NHS helps tens of thousands of people with mental health problems into work

New platform launched for retired consultants to return to NHS

Women's Health Strategy priorities: Secretary of State speech

Health Secretary announces new women's health priorities for 2024

 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

No ‘real evidence’ for labelling burden on Scottish businesses

Minister hears about Denbighshire business’ export success

UK takes action to boost supply chain resilience for critical goods and back businesses

Wales TUC welcomes Welsh Government’s strong support for trade union facility time

New funding available for fisheries projects across England

International Development Fund: non-communicable disease programme

Maximising European programme funds key to supporting rural Wales

Funding to help hundreds of rough sleepers off streets

New government funding to boost jobs and hydrogen transport in the North East

National Lottery funding supports Garvagh community to tackle climate change

 
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note:

GCS apprenticeship bids are open for 2024!

Investigation following complaints about police investigation into the murder of Nikki Allan

Polish Armaments Group agrees defence agreements with UK firms

Call for law change to support kinship carers

Serious Fraud Office charges two company directors over £88m car lease scheme

Audit Scotland - Renfrewshire must improve engagement with communities to rebuild trust

Real wage growth and low unemployment are good for households, but inadequate labour supply is constraining growth

HS2 safeguarding

LGA responds to annual fly-tipping statistics for England for 2022/23

Inflation and interest rates will still fall this year

Q2 CPS data shows a continued increase in the number of suspects charged in rape-flagged cases

 
SME Supplier Locator update...

With the officially stated target and ongoing drive for SME’s to receive £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts, UK public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase.

Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers.

Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:

Click here to find out more.

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Greater Bay Area Christmas meal and thank you to APM
The Greater Bay Area Branch would like to send their thanks for the support from Prof.


APM appoints acclaimed business leader Yvonne Thompson as new President
Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered membership organisation for the project profession, has today announced the appointment of Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE as its President-elect.


A creativity strategy modelled from Walt Disney webinar

This was a joint webinar broadcast on Thursday 18 January, between the APM People SIG and Association for NLP.


New competence framework launches for project managers in the built environment
A new competence framework that applies to the management of projects in the built environment has been launched, following changes in the recently introduced Building Safety Act.


APM Chair Milla Mazilu wins Chief Data Officer award at Digital Technology Leaders Awards
Milla Mazilu, Chair of the Board at the Association for Project Management (APM), was recognised at the annual Digital Technology Leaders Awards where she was named Chief Data Officer of the Year for driving a new data strategy to help pave the way for AI adoption at Network Rail.