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Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Britain to be made AI match-fit with £118 million skills package

Gender is the missing frontier at the UK’s AI Safety Summit

CBI responds to AI Summit

UKRI invests in the next generation of AI innovators

Balancing China’s role in the UK’s AI agenda

AI set to revolutionise military engineering capabilities

Beach landing trials help develop future AI capabilities

World leaders, top AI companies set out plan for safety testing of frontier as first global AI Safety Summit concludes

Can AI transform how we forecast the weather?

techUK perspective: harnessing AI in transport

AI Summit is dominated by Big Tech and a “missed opportunity”, civil society organisations tell Prime Minister

Home Secretary joins forces with big tech to fight AI child sex abuse images

Prime Minister launches new AI Safety Institute

 

Serco has donated £400,000 from its levy fund to pay for 80 apprenticeships at nine UK care companies. 

Family-run LDC Care Co. in Kent is one of the care providers to benefit. It supports adults with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health issues, helping them to lead more independent and fulfilling lives.

Read the case study to find out more.

Discover more about social value at Serco

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

MMR vaccination urged as measles outbreak declared in Cardiff

Tech supplier search to help tackle 8am rush at GP surgeries

Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients to be offered the chance to travel for treatment

Government updates regulations to help deliver Covid & flu jabs

Thousands of lives saved by the NHS thanks to rapid rollout of blood thinners

AI to speed up lung cancer diagnosis deployed in NHS hospitals

Government to deliver 160 community diagnostic centres a year early

Connection and Partnerships: how Homeless Link Partnership Managers support and improve local strategic partnerships

Report outlines continuing increases in oral cancer rates in Wales

NICE launches first modular update to its methods and processes

Why homeless organisations should campaign in the run up to the general election

NHS Confederation responds to the Health Foundation's analysis of the NHS elective waiting list

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

New insurance scheme to facilitate UK business supporting Ukraine

CEO of BITC, Mary Macleod, to chair Women's Business Council

Government calls on business expertise to boost trade with Turkey

Output stabilises but business sentiment deteriorates sharply - CBI SME Trends Survey

Call for funding to support newly recognised refugees

APCC welcomes fifth round of Safer Streets funding

A Joint Expeditionary Force Fund: A Better Way to Finance Defence?

Active travel: Government programme off-track as funding reductions hold back progress

CCS provides a further £2 million of funding to enable the continued development of the Contract Management Pioneer Programme to support local government

Improved funding for land managers and farmers to grow more trees

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

Private sector growth prospects freeze over this winter - CBI Growth Indicator

Lifesaving overdose-reversal scheme

Single use plastic ban comes into force as Welsh Government strives to reach net zero

Equality watchdog welcomes Worker Protection Bill receiving Royal Assent

GAD attends key summit

£10m buried in ship’s hull seized at Sheerness

The UN must coordinate field hospitals and hospital ships for Gaza

Met Office name Storm Ciarán

A passport to unlock Welsh heritage: get started during Welsh Museums Festival

Urgent changes needed to DWP consultation, warns equality watchdog

Who are ‘children in need’?

APM event simulates major stadium build project in a single day

New laws to speed up planning, build homes and level up

Statement following misconduct hearing over stop and search of Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos

techUK welcomes new measures to improve on-street electric vehicle charging

 
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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APM event simulates major stadium build project in a single day
Project professionals seeking to develop experience and knowledge were given the opportunity to deliver a simulated major football stadium project from concept to completion with the support of APM Fellows all in just one day.