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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Pupils across the UK crowned champions of the NCSC cyber contest for girls

CBI responds to Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

ICO statement on re-introduction of Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

The Government's revised data bill will help to boost innovation while upholding privacy rights and EU adequacy

Tackling consumer confusion about broadband technology
 
Public Service Insights: Supporting The 6 Key Pillars Of Employee Wellbeing Through An Intranet

In an increasingly uncertain world, facing various socio-economic and environmental crises, is your organisation doing all it can to support employee health and wellbeing?...

Employee wellbeing concerns the physical, mental, emotional and economic health and satisfaction of every worker in their workplace. Promoting and supporting wellbeing can have a significant impact on workplace productivity, job performance, and employee retention.

Featuring key-stats and recommendations, this guide has been put together taking inspiration from various public sector bodies, and highlights the great ways you can utilise an intranet to support employee wellbeing.

This must-read guide offers helpful insight on how you can enhance The 6 Key Pillars of Employee Wellbeing.

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

Homeless Link joins charity sector call for urgent support

Awards recognising remarkable NHS workers open for nominations

COVID-19 Infection Survey participants thanked for ‘huge contribution’ to pandemic response

NICE recommended weight-loss drug to be made available in specialist NHS services

NHS continues to make huge strides reducing waits for patients despite winter pressures

Millions of patients to benefit from care at home thanks to NHS community response teams

Minister meets leading researchers in women’s health and calls for more women working in STEM

Health and Social Care Secretary statement on spring booster programme and evergreen offer

NHS health teams to refer lonely and isolated patients for check in and chat service

How we vote is changing

International Womens Day: Celebrating The Achievements Of Women Who Experience Homelessness

Tommy Walsh and Alan Titchmarsh join NHS campaign to get country talking about bowel cancer screening
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Employees who volunteer as magistrates prove good for business

General Lighthouse Fund: light dues rate update

FCA authorises first Long Term Asset Fund

Belize and UK sign MOU to implement Biodiverse Landscapes Fund

TUC calls for funded high-quality childcare for all parents

£49.5 million for Melton Mowbray as government funds vital new road scheme

£11 million National Lottery funding to empower Scottish communities

New fund to help change young people's lives through sport and physical activity

Call to re-join research funding programme

UK Space Agency: New funding to support space exploration using Moon resources and nuclear power

Major fund to tackle loneliness and boost volunteering in disadvantaged areas launched

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

IPPR - New Channel crossings legislation ‘unethical and impractical’ says IPPR

Saving for your future

HRC52: Statement on Sudan

RAF Chinook conducts airborne gunnery training in Lincolnshire

Celebrating success in preventing cerebral palsy

£2.1m for young people with additional learning needs in further education

Impactful snow and cold this week

United Kingdom helps freeze more than £48 billion in Russian assets

£60 million to make schools and colleges across Wales more sustainable

GDP: Chancellor must boost pay to get economy moving, says TUC

Miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines – response to second annual consultation

Gross misconduct proven against a former Wiltshire Police officer who abused his position to target a vulnerable woman

St David Awards: a decade celebrating Wales’ everyday heroes
 
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.

SF Planning

 
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Find out about your obligations and how to comply, including protecting personal information and providing access to official information.

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New FOI resources to support public authorities
A blog by Deborah Clark, ICO Upstream Regulation Manager

Update on the ICO’s change of approach to regulating communication service providers
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a statement on 20 January 2023

New FOI resources to support public authorities
We’ve been working hard, following the commitments made in our ICO25 plan, to make

Former RAC employee fined for stealing data of victims of road traffic incidents
A former employee of breakdown services company RAC has plead guilty and been fine

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