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Colonel Tom Moore (left) with General Mark Carleton-Smith, CGS – (photo courtesy of the MoD)
Reporter: Stuart Littleford – News
Hero fundraiser Colonel Tom Moore is to be knighted, following a special nomination from the Prime Minister.
Col Tom, who celebrated his 100th birthday last month, is to be recognised for his extraordinary
Continue reading KNIGHTHOOD FOR COLONEL TOM MOORE
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Imagine being able to design a digital version of just about anything in the real world, infuse it with data, and use the knowledge it provides to create or improve its real-life physical entity. This is the concept behind “digital twins,” which
Continue reading How Digital Twins Can Transform Government and Society
The Bill takes back control of UK borders and paves the way for a new points-based immigration system
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2020 introduced on 5 March will have its Second Reading in the House of Commons today (Monday 18 May)
Continue reading Historic Immigration Bill returns to Parliament
Real-Time Payment Notifications provide real-time updates on card acceptance transactions
Payment specialist allpay limited, has launched Event Driven Payment Analytics. Real-time payment notifications now provide instant updates on card acceptance and payment transactions.
Teejay Townsend, card acceptance product manager allpay explains: “We are now offering this new feature to update organisations instantly on payments made
Continue reading allpay Launches Event Driven Payment Analytics
New edition of a biography of Alexander Wilson throws new light on how and why the ‘Alec Wilson’ of the BBC series ‘Mrs Wilson’ was thrown out of MI6 during the Second World War.
The book reveals he could have been unfairly discredited because of mistakes by the country’s intelligence agencies.
Professor Tim Crook of
Continue reading New Book: Why Alec Wilson was thrown out of MI6 during the Second World War
The race is on to find a vaccine to COVID-19 and big data analysis is at the forefront of data modelling trends of the pandemic.
The Crown Commercial Services office has selected Bridgeworks to offer the NHS and qualifying medical research organisations data management services over the next twelve months, at no cost.
Bridgeworks letter
Continue reading Bridgeworks COVID-19 Offer supplied by the UK Crown Commercial Services Office
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist for GPSJ
The Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly throughout the world and scientists are racing to find a vaccine. Big Data analytics, data visualisation and artificial intelligence are also being recruited to track the spread of the virus. This is with the aim of helping governments
Continue reading Pandemic: How A.I. and WAN Acceleration Can Help to Find a Cure
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT examines the evolving role of technology in business and the breakdown of traditional IT siloes Less than 25% of budgets dedicated to emerging tech, instead prioritise cloud and hybrid IT Tech pros cite need to upskill across security, APM, and non-technical and interpersonal skills
Continue reading SolarWinds Study Shows Converged Roles and Contracting Budgets Increase Need for Qualified U.K. Public Sector Tech Pros Across Hybrid IT Environments
WPS, the award-winning parking solutions provider, is continuing to deliver essential maintenance and installation work for customers within key sectors such as healthcare and utilities to ensure 24-hour availability of essential parking infrastructure.
Simon Jarvis
Simon Jarvis, Managing Director of WPS in the UK, says that while some other parking system providers have
Continue reading WPS continues to support essential workers in critical sectors
Cari-Anne Quinn
Wales’ leading organisation for healthcare innovation is calling on companies and innovators from across the country to join the fight against coronavirus.
Life Sciences Hub Wales is leading industry efforts to combat COVID-19 by launching a nation-wide drive to get companies from a range of sectors working together on solutions. Having
Continue reading Life Sciences Hub Wales calls for industry collaboration to fight coronavirus
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Modernisation is a constant process and shouldn’t have a clear finishing point, whether it’s for the network, data centre, cloud, or IT management tools. This is necessary to ensure all systems and devices are up-to-date, functioning at the highest level and, particularly
Continue reading Don’t Get Your Network in Knots: A 5-Step Plan for Government Modernisation
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
Freemasons across England and Wales are coming together to provide vital personal protective equipment (PPE) for care homes to protect the elderly, following health secretary Matt Hancock’s call for a “Herculean effort” to protect critical NHS staff.
The government is currently supplying 58,000 separate organisations including pharmacies, care homes and GP surgeries with PPE, which
Continue reading FREEMASONS VOW TO HELP PROTECT THE ELDERLY DURING COVID-19 CRISIS
The officers arm bitten by the man
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
A man is in custody after an officer was badly bitten in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Yesterday evening at around 6.40pm, a police constable was responding to reports of a man causing a disturbance on Drake Street in Rochdale, when she was bitten.
Attending
Continue reading Police officer bitten explaining government guidelines around 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
Anne Godfrey
Reporter: Stacy Clarke
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has today announced that Anne Godfrey is to leave the membership body following four successful years as Chief Executive.
Having joined CIEH in 2016, Anne delivered a significant change programme to restore financial stability, refocus on membership and the profession and
Continue reading CEO Anne Godfrey to leave Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Landmarc MD Mark Neill
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Mark Neill, the Managing Director of Landmarc Support Services (Landmarc) has announced that military veterans will be guaranteed interviews for jobs at Landmarc.
Mark is himself a military veteran and feels passionately that Landmarc should match the recent commitment the Government has made to veterans in
Continue reading Landmarc pledge to guarantee recruitment interviews for military veterans
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
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