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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

NDA welcomes over 90 Cumbrian students to first ever cyber competition

Data is at the heart of your organisation

Location data can help deliver the safe rollout of autonomous vehicles

Critical services to be better protected from satellite data disruptions through new Position, Navigation and Timing framework

Institutions of Innovation: Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Get Online Week should be about driving action on digital inclusion

Frontier AI Taskforce brings in leading technical organisations to research risks

Independent report finds UK leads the way with AI Standards Hub

New report calls for greater focus on ‘human talents’ in an increasingly AI world

New innovation challenge launched to tackle bias in AI systems

AI projects supporting small businesses in fashion, farming and fire-fighting to get funding boost ahead of UK AI Safety Summit

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

Government agrees scope of inquiry into Lucy Letby's crimes

Supervised toothbrushing in nurseries and schools seeing encouraging recovery post-pandemic

Report calls for targeted vaccine resources to address hesitancy and misinformation

Government seeks views on improving alcohol treatment services

Planning for winter pressures

People who have had a stroke should be offered additional rehabilitation to help them recover NICE says in updated guidance

New treatment that could prove curative for blood cancer patients to be offered by the NHS

Charities voice support for government's smokefree plans

Combination of cost-of-living crisis and workforce pressures risks ‘unfair care’ – longer waits, reduced access and poorer outcomes for some

National pelvic health service to support women

Latest figures show drop in obesity rates among primary school children: statistical press release

NHS delivering fastest ever flu vaccine rollout ahead of winter

Why the Government must raise LHA in the Autumn Statement

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

38% of business report labour shortages holding back growth - CBI/Pertemps Employment Trends Survey

Business Secretary visits Aston Martin after announcing £9 million to drive innovation in auto tech industry

New Deal for Business Group - Report on Progress & Recommendations: Implementation Plan

The UK Space Agency is Unlocking Space for Business

West and Central Africa Trade and Investment Forum begins in London

Negotiations on an enhanced UK-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement

New Welsh Polling: Support for trade unions strengthens as over 200,000 workers say they’re likely to lose their jobs in the next 12 months

Joint Statement on the third Edition of the UK Colombia Trade Dialogue

Humanitarian aid funding

Funding commitment for The Yard

LGA - Funding gap growing as councils “firmly in eye of inflationary storm”

Black History Month: Black care leavers find their poetic voice thanks to National Lottery funding

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

LGA on National Child Measurement Programme statistics

Statement on behalf of the Tata Steel/ Port Talbot Transition Board

Eleven illegal workers arrested at Central London hotel

IEA - Public finance data leaves room for tax cuts

TUC – UK has highest inflation in G7

British Sign Language Act and guidance

PCCS at The Centre of Decarbonisation Agenda

PM meeting with the Amir of Qatar: 20 October 2023

Response to dismissal of employment Tribunal claim

Operation Stovewood: Rotherham man admits child rape offences

LGA responds to Housing Ombudsman's Annual Complaints Review

PM meeting with the President of Israel Isaac Herzog: 19 October 2023

APCC responds on plans to ban the sale and use of nitrous oxide from November

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