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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Joint security guidance offered to data centre operators and users

Registration opens for CYBERUK 2022

Aerospace: human intervention and collaboration in AI and cyber security

Start an exciting career in government cyber security

CIPD - Majority of FTSE 100 firms don’t provide data on skill investment, workforce diversity or employee wellbeing in their annual reports

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In the final instalment of our Government Webinar Series, we will hear from three esteemed customer speakers who explain how GIS technology is helping them to better serve their Citizens.

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

NHS fertility treatment to resume for unvaccinated women

NHS Confederation - By working as networks and federations, primary care is delivering value for money to taxpayers

Patients Association welcomes Health and Social Care Secretary’s planned NHS reforms

Apprenticeships key to supporting NHS

Over £7m in funding to extend online mental health service

Planning for Scotland’s health and social care workforce

International collaboration - building strong and resilient health and care systems through evidence-based decision making

Public Health Scotland - Cross-border purchasing unlikely to affect alcohol consumption

The King's Fund's response to the Health and Care Bill vote in the House of Lords to block new ministerial powers

You are good enough – Be part of the RoSPA and L’Oréal 'Leading Safely Programme' for women in health and safety

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

Small Business Bonus Scheme: evaluation

Welsh Government incentives for businesses to recruit disabled apprentices increased and extended by a further year

Government backs innovative businesses with new £150 million loan scheme

New guide launched for green energy installation businesses

Loughborough-based businessman hands over half a million pounds of alleged criminal profits

UK government and global businesses in new £20 million partnership to educate girls in developing countries

Amanda Spielman at the Nursery World business summit 2022

National Lottery funding helps families save money through climate action

Swansea’s new Arena opens with City Deal funding

Scottish climate actions projects awarded £1 million of National Lottery funding

Lowest income Welsh households to receive the largest share of funding from the cost of living response

Tree resilience efforts boosted as funds to improve forestry innovation reopen

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

New endometriosis nurses to improve awareness and diagnosis in Wales

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson appointed Chair of Sport Wales

Government names preferred candidate for Charity Commission Chair

Latest Guidance on Renewable Energy Technologies, Certified Bodies, Schemes, Best Practice and Legislation

FSA to launch campaign to encourage young people and restaurants to speak up for allergies

Audit Scotland - Overarching drug and alcohol plan needed

More than 7,000 shrubs planted to combat climate change in Essex

NICE draft guidance does not recommend pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer

Scottish defence commitments sought

Using intersectionality in policymaking and analysis: Summary findings

Graves of 3 soldiers killed during the Great War are rededicated in Belgium

LGA responds to change in planning laws for 5G rollout

Senior judge’s review of fairness in parliamentary standards system published

Planting Trees in England

BT Director to lead group in developing techUK’s Local Digital Capital Index

SME Supplier Locator update...

UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s.

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.

Techmate Ltd

More contributions to the Brexit process

Still a ‘hot topic’, with widely spread views:

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GOV. UK – Brexit