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FourNet’s digital channel map uncovers crucial demographic trends and analyses tech usage across every council area in England, Wales and Scotland
Alan Linter
The first ever Local Authority Digital Transformation Index (LADiT) has been unveiled today by customer experience and digital transformation specialists, FourNet, to assist councils – many of which are facing reorganisation, budget cuts
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The recent cyberattacks on London councils have exposed a fundamental weakness in today’s cybersecurity strategies. Despite organisations investing heavily in perimeter defences such as firewalls, anti-phishing measures, and zero-trust policies, cybercriminals continue to breach these barriers. The reason? Traditional best practices focus on keeping attackers out, rather than protecting what truly matters; the data
Continue reading Why “Best Practice” is Failing to Protect Personal Data: A Call for Data-Centric Security
Sodexo UK & Ireland’s Government business has today launched a new client-focussed, data-driven reporting platform to support its public sector clients define, track, measure and evidence the social value over the lifetime of client’s contract.
Aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals and nationally recognised methodologies for calculating Social Return on Investment (SROI), Sodexo’s
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Voicescape will launch a breakthrough income recovery solution for social landlords and local authorities in April 2025, representing a major step change in the way unsecured debt from tenant repayment agreements is managed across the sector.
Agreements Manager has been developed by the specialist software business in partnership with customers, to enable social
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Promoting Diversity, Inclusion and Supporting the Generation of Industry Professionals
The Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) is offering bursary places for the IRMS Conference 2025, as part of its commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, and helping young people get a head start in the industry. The fully funded places are available for the
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Workforce Management Solutions, Matrix is proud to announce increased scope on the G-Cloud 14 framework, further cementing their position as a leading provider of workforce solutions to the public sector. This milestone underscores Matrix’s dedication to delivering innovative, reliable and efficient services to meet the dynamic needs of public sector organisations.
Through the G-Cloud 14
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Latency, packet loss and poor bandwidth utilisation often disrupt network performance. With network infrastructure refreshes occurring on average every 5 years, the answer is usually to buy more bandwidth and to kick out the old to bring in the new by investing in the latest technology. However, this doesn’t always quite mitigate these issues,
Continue reading Make 2025 Be The WAN You Want: Fast Like Lightning
Lymington-based British firm Bridgeworks, which is headquartered in the UK and which specialises in WAN Acceleration is now a listed supplier for the United Nations. The company, which has unique, fully patented technology, can thwart as well as obfuscate cyber-criminals.
Bridgeworks was also invited to join a 2-day UK Trade Mission to the UN
Continue reading Lymington-Based WAN Acceleration Firm Bridgeworks Lists As UN Supplier
UK specialist solutions provider TripleComm has added Darkscope’s cyber threat intelligence solutions to its long-standing roster of network-focused solutions. Darkscope’s portfolio adds specific cybersecurity capabilities to TripleComm’s services for the first time.
Chris Plastiras, director at TripleComm, commented: “We’re very selective about the solutions we choose for our clients, so it’s a measure of
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By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
The new government brings with it new ideas on driving efficiencies and positive change within the public sector. It is a necessity in light of the state of the public finances.
Barley Laing
As it formulates its next steps in these areas the onus is
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By Neil Mclvor, Head of Data for Public Services at technology consultancy, esynergy
Neil Mclvor
Under its newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer, Gina Gill, the CDDO has now kicked off a project intended to solve urgent governmental issues around “data quality”. Whilst undoubtedly important, this overlooks a vital first step; that is, educating
Continue reading Digital transformation relies on data – but does the civil service really understand it?
Council eliminated Java vulnerabilities, accounting for more than 80% of its IT security vulnerabilities overall, with no disruption or impact on performance
Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, recently announced that Newcastle City Council (NCC) has successfully implemented Azul Platform Core to address critical security vulnerabilities in its Java-based applications. This strategic
Continue reading Azul Enables Newcastle City Council to Mitigate Security Risks of Unsupported Java
By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
The new government has new objectives and expectations, with an emphasis on positive change and efficiencies, which is important during a period when public expenditure is under pressure like never before.
Now is the time for the public sector to take the lead in driving
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A new initiative between The Prince’s Trust and medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra, is helping to widen access to technology career opportunities for young people from different backgrounds.
‘Get into IT and Administration’, a new digital and technology-focused employability programme, was launched in Belfast during the summer. It has been actively supporting
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Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Public sector organisations as well as businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, train companies, have been affected by a mass global IT outage today.
GP surgeries are reporting difficulties accessing patient data and appointment systems with many resorting to using hand written notes and manual filing
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By Lesley Moore, Director, Field Services, Workday
Implementing new HR and finance systems in the public sector can be daunting.
Lesley Moore
Traditionally, these systems have been riddled with challenges, including extensive customisation, long testing phases, poor reliability and difficulty applying software and a lack of updates. Not only did that mean public sector
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By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist at SolarWinds
It’s now two years since the UK published its 2022-2025 roadmap for digital and data to transform government services and ensure every penny of taxpayers’ money is well spent.
Sascha Giese
The roadmap set out ambitious plans to “transform digital public services, deliver world-class digital technology and
Continue reading Digital and data roadmap passes two-year milestone
By Anne-Marie Vine-Lott, Director of Health, Vodafone UK
Anne-Marie Vine-Lott
Restoring public sector productivity is a national priority.
Recent ONS figures reveal productivity levels in the public sector considerably worsened in late 2023 – especially across healthcare and education – and to this day remain 6.8% lower than pre-pandemic levels.
The Office for Budget
Continue reading Solving the public sector productivity puzzle: why connectivity holds the key
By Tim Freestone, chief strategy and marketing officer, Kiteworks
The sheer number of cyber-attacks in recent years puts the inadequacy of current systems into sharp focus. Alas, many public sector organisations are still using decades old legacy, homegrown technologies to manage the storing, transfer, and sharing of data. Although this approach has historically been
Continue reading The need to modernise secure content communication approaches
By Sophie Brown, Commercial Director of FlowlioAs a project-management training and software company, working within central and local government, social housing and with SMEs, we see organisations faced with similar challenges and having to deal with the same issues, again and again. These include a disjointed approach to delivering change and transformation projects, people
Continue reading Why project management training and software solutions are vital for local government
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