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Warren Ralls
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Warren Ralls, Director of The LEP Network, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Institute of Economic Development (IED).
Under Warren’s leadership, The LEP Network brings the 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships together on areas of shared importance, reaches out to Government, officials and organisations seeking
Continue reading LEP ‘champion’ joins Institute of Economic Development board
Chris Austin Group Sales Manager, Scott Burge Sales Manager and Paul Smith Group Marketing Director at Oldham Leisure Centre
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
HS Sports, a world leader in the supply of sports industry equipment with a 30 year track record, recently launched the subsidiary brand APG Leisure, to focus solely on supplying commercial
Continue reading HS Sports launches sister brand APG Leisure
Aidan Kehoe, Chief Executive, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Paul Moonan, Managing Director at Restore Scan and Aidan Kehoe, Chief Executive, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, reveal in this jointly authored article, how a partnership between Restore Scan and the Royal Liverpool is supporting the key aims
Continue reading DIGITISATION’S TRIPLE WOW: HOSPITAL RECORDS READY TO MEET NHS AIMS OF BETTER HEALTH, BETTER CARE AND LOWER COST
Jon Fielding, Managing Director, EMEA Apricorn
By Jon Fielding, Managing Director, EMEA Apricorn
Without question, mobile and remote working offers huge business benefits, but it also exposes organisations to risks that can be challenging to manage. Organisations are not only tasked with managing flexible working practices, but also faced with the need to
Continue reading Secure mobile working: Turn the weakest link into the strongest asset
By professor Rob Atenstaedt, on behalf of the Albanian Embassy in the UK
Introduction
When you hear the word Albania, what do you think of? A communist country where Norman Wisdom’s films were the only Western ones which were allowed to be shown as its leadership believed that the movies, in which Pitkin “got one
Continue reading How the Albanian Government has created the optimum conditions for business investment in the country
As the public sector progresses beyond digital implementation to evolution, Idox shares its views on how a people-centred approach to digitisation can help organisations get more from their investments, as well as support the creation of effective end-to-end digital journeys.
The implementation of innovative technology to support smarter working, service transformation, and improved engagement has
Continue reading The two faces of digital transformation
Anthony Fulgoni, Chief Revenue Officer, Calipsa
By Anthony Fulgoni, Chief Revenue Officer, Calipsa
Video surveillance can be a divisive subject when it comes to our public highways and byways. On the one hand, there is the sheer number of cameras now in place – estimates suggest there is one CCTV camera for every
Continue reading How Machine Learning technology can help deliver smarter video surveillance in the public sector
Oxford from above
Oxfordshire County Council, committed to delivering top quality services and value for money on behalf of the country’s 600,000 plus residents, is investing in a new GIS (Geographic Information System) to help transform service delivery. The council is aiming to increase the number of digital tools it uses, based on
Continue reading Oxfordshire County Council looks to GIS to transform service delivery
Kodak Alaris Information Management and long-standing partner Insight, have successfully tendered to provide University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), one of 16 Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) acute trusts, with a fast and efficient scanning solution embedded within the Trust’s existing line of business application.
As part of its goal to exploit the potential
Continue reading Kodak Alaris wins tender to support UHB’s drive for digital excellence
Rita Ellis
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
19-year-old Rita Ellis was murdered at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire on Saturday 11 November 1967.
At 10.30am on Sunday 12 November Rita’s body was found on the camp by a dog walker near a disused railway at the old coal yard about 250 yards from the main
Continue reading Appeal following murder of RAF Aircraftswoman
A month after Germany took to the polls on September 24th, initial coalition talks to form a new government began last week. Although Angela Merkel and her conservative CDU/CSU group won the elections, they entered Parliament a weakened force after suffering severe losses. Although sure to be re-elected as Chancellor, Merkel is left with only
Continue reading Germany after Elections – Implications for the UK and Brexit negotiations
Fleet Hero Awards reveals 10 winners in its 12th year
Award recognises efforts of companies to reduce fleet carbon footprint, tackle air pollution and improve fleet sustainability
Fleet Leeds City Council Andrew Hickford Terry Pycroft
An innovative partnership tackling air quality issues in central London and
Continue reading UK’S FLEET HEROES REVEALED AT MUSEUM OF LONDON DOCKLANDS
Lambert Smith Hampton, the professional services organisation, has praised EssentialSkillz for its easy-to-use software which has given them automated compliance on its business-critical policies.
Lambert Smith Hampton employs 1,300 people across 34 offices. It required a new policy and training software. The system had to provide an audit trail and verify if employees had read
Continue reading LAMBERT SMITH HAMPTON GUARANTEES POLICY COMPLIANCE WITH WORKWIZE
Loughborough University has upgraded its CCTV security network to increase the level of protection for the 17,975 students and 3,787 members of staff that study, work, live in or visit the campus. The project has been completed by OpenView Security Solutions (OSS), one of the UK’s leading independent providers of security and IT infrastructure solutions,
Continue reading OPENVIEW UPGRADES SECURITY SYSTEMS AT LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
Phil Geraghty, MD of Crowdfunder
Report shows:
Grant funds were amplified by 161% in crowdfunding pilot
78% of people who pledged gave money they wouldn’t ordinarily give to charity or philanthropic causes 33% saw an uplift in volunteering after the fundraise, with 2 in 3 projects seeing an increase in skills
The £5.6bn
Continue reading Nesta report paves way for grant funding revolution with the crowd
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is harnessing the buying power of the public sector to reduce the cost to the public purse of purchasing mobile voice and data services.
Expressions of interest are now being taken from public sector organisations who want to take part in this latest bulk buying project.
The
Continue reading Public bodies to band together for new mobile voice and data procurement
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has recently awarded EssentialSkillz a place on the G-Cloud 9 (G9) supplier list for cloud computing services.
EssentialSkillz has been successful in achieving supplier status and can now offer its compliance solutions to public sector organisations looking to streamline their online safety training and risk assessment processes.
EssentialSkillz provides companies
Continue reading ESSENTIALSKILLZ NOW A CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE (CCS) SUPPLIER
Responding to a Local Government Ombudsman report on its first 100 investigations into Education, Health and Care Plans, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said: “The number of investigations undertaken in this report is relatively small when compared to the thousands of Education, Health and Care Plans
Continue reading LGA RESPONDS TO LGO REPORT ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND CARE PLANS
THE contract to maintain Liverpool’s parks and green spaces is set to be handed to the council-owned company which operates the refuse, recycling and street cleansing service.
A report to the Cabinet on Friday 27 October is recommending that Liverpool Street Scene Services Limited – a wholly owned Local Authority Trading Company (LATco) – takes
Continue reading Parks and green spaces contract set to be taken over by council company
Targus technology unleashes 3,000-strong team to work anywhere
Targus, a global leader in mobile computing accessories, today announces that Staffordshire County Council has selected the company to boost productivity and enable flexible working, with the installation of over 1,000 universal docking stations.
In order for Staffordshire County Council to achieve smarter ways of working, greater
Continue reading Staffordshire County Council boosts employee satisfaction through smart working rollout
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