WIREDGOV NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

£138m investment in social science data infrastructure

Action Fraud warns of social media account and email takeover scams

Government-led coalition launches open call for bold and innovative ideas using Smart Data

How data protection law can help retailers tackle shoplifting

Working in Cyber Security at the Home Office

IEA - AI overregulation risks human progress

The UK AI summit can succeed by generating momentum for effective governance

Leading frontier AI companies publish safety policies

GAD's research on AI and machine learning in actuarial work

UK’s global AI summit risks being viewed as missed opportunity by history, warns IPPR

Prime Minister calls for global responsibility to take AI risks seriously and seize its opportunities

Investment in childcare boosted by new resources and online tools

UK children and adults to be safer online as world-leading bill becomes law

WhatsAppening in the world of online communications?
 
Latest Guide and DWP Onboarding Case Study: Rapid response to 10-fold increase in claims within one week

Latest Guide and DWP Onboarding Case Study: Rapid response to 10-fold increase in claims within one week

During the pandemic, DWP had to respond to an unprecedented 10-fold increase in claims within one week. DWP staff had to be rapidly redeployed to the front line, creating an urgent need to onboard colleagues from other government departments to help with demand.

Their ability to draw on resources from other government departments via Invotra played an important role, enabling DWP to successfully process an unprecedented demand of new claimants.

Drawing upon lessons learnt from the DWP case study, our latest 6-Step Guide to Onboarding New Employees explains how a well-structured onboarding strategy is mutually beneficial to both parties - the employee and organisation.

Download the full DWP case study and our latest guide to onboarding new employees.
 
Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

First NICE-recommended treatment for Parkinson’s set to benefit hundreds

The StreetVet Accredited Hostel Scheme is helping keep pets and their owners together

Refreshed International Health Strategy to assist building a fairer, healthier Wales

Report finds Public Health Wales guidance has contributed to raising the profile of fair work public sector partners

MHRA warns of unsafe fake weight loss pens

Earlier mental health support announced for thousands nationwide

Innovation projects in adult social care receive £42.6m boost

NHS virtual wards to treat thousands of patients with heart failure at home

IVF law change to benefit couples with fertility issues

NHS Confederation responds to the CQC's State of Care report

NHS Confederation - NHS in Wales doing more to support people through cancer

NHS Confed responds to funding for earlier mental health support for children and young people

More action on sepsis needed as NHS Ombudsman still seeing same failings a decade on

Extra support for NHS for winter
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Expert regional innovation hubs given £75 million boost to local research, businesses and economies across UK

Small businesses to benefit from one of the largest shake ups to procurement regulations in UK history

Women trade unionists unite to demand better for carers

Retail sales tumble as downturn enters its sixth month - CBI Distributive Trades Survey

Call for Contributions: International Trade Impact Days | 6-7 November

CTSI warns of rogue traders exploiting extreme weather from Storm Babet

The King's Fund responds to the annual CQC State of care report

Huge win for NRLA as Government announces fundamental changes to Renters Reform plans

Funding for The Promise

Funding boost of £150 million for local bus services

Major £150 million funding boost for local bus services as fare cap set to be extended
 
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note:

Met officer under investigation following fatal collision in Enfield

Major Military Exercise Strengthens UK Ties in Southeast Asia

Ukraine Must Prepare for a Hard Winter

100 days to go to Self Assessment deadline

Q & A with Emma Burrows, Associate Partner with PA Consulting

Simpler recycling collections and tougher regulation to reform waste system

Next sections of Superloop network in outer London confirmed by TfL

New medical and welfare services for veterans living in Northern Ireland

Advanced laser spectroscopy detects falsified vaccines

The hidden waitlist

Pressure on councils to support vulnerable children remains high - LGA on Children in Need statistics

UK and Oklahoma hold inaugural Working Group meeting

China’s approach to the war in Gaza is not anti-Israel. It’s designed to contain the US
 
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:

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CTSI

CTSI represents trading standards professionals working in the UK and overseas - in local authorities, business and consumer sectors and central government.
 


CTSI warns of rogue traders exploiting extreme weather from Storm Babet
Consumer warning issued as Trading Standards see a rise in rogue traders reports.


Public losing thousands to scammers impersonating CTSI
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) is warning consumers to be vigilant and not to respond to correspondence carrying the CTSI branding, which is currently in circulation and has nothing to do with the Institute.


Government set to stamp out smoking in a generation
Trading Standards body welcomes £30 million in new funding for enforcement activity


Government data highlights consumer issues - is there fair measure at the checkout?
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) welcomes the publication of the annual Section 70 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 report data released from the Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) on the enforcement of legal metrology. CTSI is concerned that retailers have the second-lowest rate of weights and measures compliance, meaning that customers cannot be sure they are getting what they pay for.