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WiredGov Plus provides a weekly roundup of news from the UK Government and Public Sector. To save your time, we research & validate the links to websites / documents and selectively add additional background links as appropriate.

Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

Cybersecurity as a strategic lever in a changing global landscape

Using data analytics to tackle fraud and error could save government billions

AI model could ‘revolutionise’ marine operational decision-making

DfT’s Transport AI Action Plan promising but more details needed

UK’s best AI engineers can apply now to build tech for public services in $1 million fellowship

EU releases final version of AI Code of Practice

Prison term for ‘legal first’ prosecution of man who encouraged a vulnerable woman to commit serious self-harm online

UK’s Online Safety regime unable to tackle the spread of misinformation and cannot keep users safe online, MPs warn
 
Your Council's Procurement Performance: Ranked

Your council’s procurement performance: ranked.

How does your council stack up nationally? Tussell's new 2025 Procurement Index breaks down who UK authorities spent their procurement budgets within 2024.

Powered by Tussell’s market intelligence platform, the Index reveals what proportion of your council’s procurement went directly to SMEs, VCSEs and locally-based suppliers, and how this compares with other authorities nationally.

Click here to reveal your council’s Procurement Index ranking.
 
Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

New online resource to help public health professionals capture the wider social value of their work

NHS delivers record numbers of treatments as waiting list drops to 26-month low

Government takes action to deliver neighbourhood health services

NHS to bring ‘sponge-on-a-string’ cancer test to the high street

Communities in Neath Port Talbot showing strength and solidarity through challenging times

IEA - NHS plan ‘mostly reaffirmation’

Personal thank you to NHS worker from Prime Minister

NHS Confederation - Resident doctor strikes could jeopardise NHS performance improvements

NHS Confederation - GP Patient Survey reflects the hard work of staff to deliver for patients

A year since the general election, The King's Fund responds to the latest NHS performance data

NHS Confederation welcomes the government’s roll out of new neighbourhood health services
 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

UK businesses and academia partner up in cutting-edge research

Shifting Currents: Tech, Trade, and Security

A Trade Strategy for the UK’s Tech Future: What It Means for Our Sector - and What Still Needs to Happen

Second Wales Rural Crime Strategy builds on success to strengthen protection

Oliver Wyman report finds ‘Team UK’ approach can unlock defence-driven economic growth

Largest ever budget for water regulation

UK and France pledge joint funding for international biodiversity

King's Fund - GP Patient Survey results show primary care staff's efforts to improve people's experience of general practice are bearing fruit

APCC leads respond to Home Affairs Committee report on VAWG funding
 
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note:

Global Combat Air Programme Joint Statement: 7 July 2025

Statement from the Children’s Commissioner on Best Start in Life strategy

Financial services hit by falling activity and sharp drop in sentiment - CBI Financial Services Survey

A Zeitenwende for German Defence Finance?

Corseford College future secured until 2027

Community Right to Buy

Prisoner Releases in Belarus: Joint Statement to the OSCE, July 2025

New legislation to improve building safety in Wales

Back-to-back BRICS and Quad meetings highlight India’s increasingly difficult balancing act

Strategic Defence Review: Does it Pass its Tests?

Prime Minister and Home Secretary mark 20th anniversary of 7/7

Curlew conservation project takes flight!
 
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.

Shenton Group
 
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