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Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd today announced that it is helping Walsall Council to deliver enhanced ICT, as part of the council’s PROUD programme, which is transforming the way public services are delivered. The council has deployed a cloud-hosted PlanetPress solution as part of its centralised communications strategy, hosted and managed by Konica Minolta.
Continue reading Konica Minolta cloud solution plays vital role in helping Walsall Council modernise and streamline critical processes
TWO THIRDS of the public think that vital public services, such as social care, are put at risk when people who can pay their council tax do not, according to a new YouGov survey.
Already hundreds of millions go unpaid every year and over 80% of the public think that this would continue or get
Continue reading Public backs debt enforcement to support vital public services – survey
Stephen Stead
By Stephen Stead, director of strategy and digital services at SSE Enterprise’s distributed energy business
COUNCIL officials have shown incredible leadership during the coronavirus pandemic – from supporting vulnerable citizens through to maintaining essential services, local authority workers have been at the forefront, ensuring the wheels of local government keep turning.
Continue reading Why the Covid backlog mustn’t slow down councils’ response to the climate emergency
Bristow & Sutor, one of the UK’s leading local authority debt recovery specialists, is resuming recruitment and hiring for Enforcement Agents (EAs), Collection Officers and several ad hoc roles within the business. Collections and enforcement agencies have been on the front-line of businesses affected by social distancing measures, but with Government legislation allowing visits to
Continue reading Post-lockdown recruitment gets green light at Bristow & Sutor
The Zhaga interface standard for street lighting future-proves luminaires to keep pace with rapid developments in digital technology. It enables a multi-vendor eco-system of interoperable luminaires and sensor/communication modules and breaks existing barriers to smart and connected lighting.
The Zhaga smart interface specifications will have a major impact on the value of the lighting
Continue reading Zhaga standards break barriers to smart and connected lighting
Tillr’s director, Paul Romer-Ormiston
Reporter: Stacy Clarke – Sponsored
It is acutely ironic that 2020, a number associated with complete clarity of vision, is a year of unmatched confusion when it comes to looking into the future. Given the unprecedented nature and scope of the restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,
Continue reading Get ready for the relaxation of lockdown restrictions with Tillr’s Post-Lockdown Recovery Toolkit
Reporter: Stacy Clarke – News
If you are an energy app developer or energy innovator; a local authority energy manager or an electric vehicle (EV) charging provider; a grid or micro-grid operator; an academic or one of the many other energy-interested individuals or organisations, Siemens would like to hear from you. You can have your
Continue reading A national energy data platform, YODA
Reporter: Allan Roach – News
Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer and a developer of renewable power, has pre-qualified as new supplier for the Re:fit Energy Performance Contract framework. The Norwegian state-owned energy company can now provide public organisations in the UK with fully funded behind the meter solar solutions. Re:fit is jointly owned by the Greater
Continue reading Statkraft selected on UK Re:fit Energy Performance Contract framework
ProGuard+ arriving in Spain
Reporter: Allan Roach – Sponsored
Evolve Scientific Products (ESP) based in Chesterfield has announced an international order for its ProGuard+ multi-surface cleaner. A surface cleaner that provides long-lasting effective protection against the Covid-19 virus that could make moving towards an end of lockdown safer and securer for everybody, particularly
Continue reading Covid fighting UK innovation gains export success
Reporter: Stuart Littleford – News
As a result of the increasing pressures being placed on the Adult Social Care system as a result of COVID-19, Knowsley Council has allocated funding and agreed system changes to enhance its support for care providers across the Borough.
These enhancements recognise the increasing demand on services, higher than usual
Continue reading Knowsley Council announces extra funding to support under pressure Adult Social Care system
Reporter: Stacy Clarke – Advertorial
A leading emergency soft FM specialist has launched a disinfection and testing service that aims to deliver industry-leading Covid-19 protection and help employers reduce the anxiety of staff and clients as workplaces reopen after lockdown.
The three-step process, developed by SafeGroup Services Ltd, involves a premises deep clean and a
Continue reading Innovative Covid-19 service tackles the pathogen and the fear
Emergency prepaid card
Reporter: Stacy Clarke
allpay, a leading UK payment specialist, has announced a prepaid card programme has been made available to help disburse emergency funds to those affected by COVID-19. Emergency Government funds have been made available to help those in most need, and allpay’s prepaid cards can now enable those
Continue reading allpay’s Prepaid Cards to Help Disburse Emergency Funds for Those Affected by COVID-19
Jim Roberts, Director at Fourth Street, reacts to the recent controversy over the use of public parks during the Covid-19 crisis
Our public parks were both a blessing and a battleground on the first sunny weekend of spring this year.
People flocked to their nearest park for some much-needed respite from weeks of tough,
Continue reading Parks in a Pandemic
Teesside University
A practical support package to help businesses through the coronavirus emergency has been put together by Teesside University.
Along with other agencies, the University is working with the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority to ensure a coordinated approach, helping the region’s businesses to stay resilient and to be ready
Continue reading Teesside University partners with Tees Valley Combined Authority to unveil COVID-19 business support package
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
BASW Chair and CEO issue letter to Prime Minister to support social workers
Social workers are on the front line of efforts to minimise the impact of Covid-19 across the four countries of the UK and undertake a range of statutory duties, including protecting vulnerable children and adults, supporting disabled adults and
Continue reading BASW calls on the Prime Minister to provide essential PPE and guidance for social workers and include as priority group for testing
Unremitting financial pressures, ongoing staff reductions and the unforgiving need to deliver new political initiatives against tight budgets are leading local, regional and national government managers across the UK to turn to outsourced private sector business transformation experts for the delivery of organisational change and new services.
A leading supplier of this kind of high-level
Continue reading Under Pressure Public Sector Managers Turn to Private Sector Boardroom Expertise
VPS Smart Tower being off loaded from truck
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Police forces across the UK are having to carry out extra night patrols in empty city and town centres, as burglars target shops, pubs and other commercial premises during the coronavirus lockdown.
Collating intelligence data from police reports, news items, and their
Continue reading Surge in break-ins at pubs, shops, offices and construction sites during coronavirus lockdown
Journey sharing app provides easy way for those in need to see the people around them who can help
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
As the government writes to 1.5 million vulnerable people to urge them to stay at home for 12 weeks, the community ethos of the Faxi car pooling app is coming to
Continue reading Car pooling mapping app can help communities support each other during coronavirus pandemic
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
As the UK heads into at least three weeks of lockdown, concerns are being raised across the country as thousands of construction workers headed out to work, including on packed London Underground trains.
Last night the Prime Minister gave an instruction that everyone should stay at home for all but the most
Continue reading Government must give clearer guidance on building sites says British Safety Council
Using modular building systems to create a new community centre and preschool
When Basildon Council wanted to create a new community centre and preschool facility in Nevendon, they selected modular building systems to successfully fast track a valuable community asset with a tight construction schedule spanning just eight months from April to December 2019.
The
Continue reading MODULAR BUILDING METHODS DELIVER FAST TRACK COMMUNITY CENTRE FACILITY
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