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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

UK and international partners share advice to help turn the dial on tech product security

Three charged over online banking scam

Online recruitment firm fined £130,000 for sending 107 million spam emails targeting jobseekers

Major broadband upgrade for New Forest to benefit thousands of rural properties

Higgs Centre for Innovation marks £10 million in investment

 

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

Reflections from Rough Sleeping Conference 2023

NHS progress on waiting list despite busiest winter on record

First detailed insight into young people's wellbeing before and during the Covid pandemic.

An update on our plan and approach for transformation: April 2023

A safe space for leaders to learn from one another

Proportion of people using the internet frequently to manage their health has almost doubled

Sixteen healthy ageing projects win funding to scale innovations

Recent changes to refugee and asylum seeker policies and how they may impact homelessness services

NHS Confederation - NHS faces most significant strikes ever

The King's Fund responds the latest NHS performance data
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Father and son who operated illegal waste business in court

Rural communities up and down the country set to benefit from funding to support rural business and create jobs

Extra £600,000 of funding for credit unions to support ethical and affordable lending during cost of living crisis

Welsh Government extends funding for successful e-cycle schemes

Major funding boost to progress future fighter jet programme

UK SMEs secure funding to transform future of freight

Disabled children to benefit from funding for short breaks

IEA - Economy hamstrung by sluggish growth

Pandemic support for film and TV such as Peaky Blinders kept thousands in jobs and contributed billion to economy

Surviving Contact with the Enemy: The UK’s Economic Crime Plan (2023–2026)

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

FS Policy Explainer | The Digital Tech Sector’s Views on the Critical Third Parties Regulatory Regime | DP3/22

FDA to consider strike action in response to contemptuous announcement on civil service pay

Floating solar panels ready in first for Scotland

Wind warnings issued

Unsettled week ahead

PM meeting with US President Joe Biden

Media Freedom Coalition Executive Group Statement: Detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

PM to recognise six-year old for outstanding contribution award

Man extradited from Pakistan and charged with murder of British police officer

CTSI welcomes Government announcement on vaping

The year ahead for Jobs & Skills

Financial support for disabled people

Llys Rhosyr, a Royal Court of the Princes of Gwynedd, becomes Cadw's 131st monument

 
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Early bird tickets now on sale for the NRLA Landlord Conference 2023
Award winning journalist Clive Myrie will host this year’s NRLA Landlord Conference, taking place at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham on 24th October 2023.


Short lets may require planning permission as part of Government crackdown
Landlords and homeowners who rent out properties as short term lets may require planning permission to do so under new Government proposals.


Landlords urged to back campaign against damaging rental housing policies in Scotland
A coalition of organisations from across the UK's private rented sector (including the NRLA) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support a judicial review of the Scottish Government's recent decision to introduce rent controls and other restrictions on Scottish landlords.


Significant media coverage for NRLA over Government anti-social behaviour plans
This week the Government, as part of its rental reform plans, unveiled plans to give landlords enhanced powers to deal with anti-social behaviour in the private rented sector. As part of our wider push to ensure the Government takes into account our members’ views on this subject when drafting rental reform proposals, we mounted a comprehensive media campaign to get our point of view across to key stakeholders.