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Following a highly competitive procurement process, last week The Retail Energy Code Company (RECCo) announced the appointment of three new service providers to carry out the Code Manager function for the Retail Energy Code. RECCo is the corporate vehicle for ensuring the proper, effective, and efficient implementation and ongoing management of the Retail Energy Code
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InfoSaaS and UKCloud have signed a partnership agreement that will see InfoSaaS’s data security, risk management and compliance software solutions made available to UKCloud’s customers and partners, free of charge for the an initial six month period.
UKCloud’s customers and partners can now access InfoSaaS’s solutions supporting data security, risk management and general business compliance
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Pothole damage on our roads
Traffic accidents, potholes, road deterioration, trip hazards on pavements and in car parks, There seems to be an epidemic happening all around us affecting every city, town, village and the connecting roads in between. Why is this happening? What can we realistically do about it?
What can be
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Former Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey QPM
Former Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey QPM, is to Chair the Taming Aggression Group (T.A.G).
A newly formed technical think tank, T.A.G aims to investigate the use of new technologies that can be adapted to deter instances of violence and criminal disorder
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A Downing Street spokesperson has told GPSJ:
“The Prime Minister spoke to Yoshihide Suga this morning to congratulate him on his recent appointment as Prime Minister of Japan.
“The leaders discussed the importance of the UK-Japan relationship across economic cooperation, security and defence. They resolved to work together closely to tackle shared challenges such as
Continue reading Prime Minister and Prime Minister Suga welcome recent agreement on UK-Japan free trade
Blocser believes cards still have a hold
Ambitious Danish fintech Blocser has partnered with top UK card manufacturer allpay.cards with designs on the fast-growing gig economy.
Blocser has pinned their Butterfly Card to one of its biggest market moves yet – the UK offer to the near 5million now estimated as working in
Continue reading allpay and Blocser confirm card contract for fast-growing UK gig economy
Anthony Browne MP
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Environment is ushering in a new era today, bringing in a new secretariat and an ambitious calendar of events ahead of the 2021 ‘Super Year’ for the environment. Led by a new cross-party committee chaired by Anthony Browne MP, the APPG is relaunching with
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This year, Women’s Equality Day celebrated its hundredth milestone, celebrating the date of which women in the US gained the right to vote for the very first time. Since 1920, the world has dramatically changed for women in every sector, from making strides in their education and in their work, to winning more nobel prizes
Continue reading Women’s Equality Day 2020: Let’s hear it for the girls!
The Queen has been pleased to approve the following appointments:
Luke Hall MP to be a Minister of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (previously a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry). Kelly Tolhurst MP to be a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities
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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick today unveiled a new £12 million boost for affordable homes, in a bid to make it easier for people to get on the housing ladder. The programme represents the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade.
Commenting on the measures, Peter Hogg, UK Cities Director at Arcadis,
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By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
As the second half of the year gets well underway, and lockdown restrictions generally continue to ease, one of the main topics of concern is a “second wave” of COVID-19 potentially hitting the U.K. in the coming weeks or months. With some
Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Prepare Your IT to Ride the “Second Wave”
Following an initial proof of concept phase, Diegesis Limited, an independent business technology and IT systems integration company, has been awarded a managed services contract by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) under the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 4 framework. Under the two-year agreement, Diegesis will support and maintain ONS’s existing Ingres/Actian-X systems written in
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Wellspace announce 12 month partnership to provide digital wellbeing services to Guys and St Thomas Charity
Wellspace will be providing digital services for 12 months to Guy’s and St Thomas Charity as part of their staff health and wellbeing programme.
Guys and St Thomas Charity is an independent urban health foundation. They work with Guy’s
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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
The rapid deployment of healthcare technology has been one of the most commented features of the NHS’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet a significant minority of patients cannot benefit from new, digital services; and risk being overlooked in the rush to go ‘digital first’ in a post-Covid reset. So what can be done to
Continue reading Getting digital inclusion onto the health and care agenda
Thousands of SMEs across Scotland are set to benefit from vital free support after the Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced that it was trebling funding for msp
The £1.5m of funding is considered a critical lifeline for helping many businesses to overcome the exceptional challenges brought about by COVID-19.
Now in its fifth year, DigitalBoost
Continue reading Thousands of Scotland SMEs to benefit from free DigitalBoost support thanks to treble funding boost
Reporter: Stacy Clarke
Cabolo is a brand new addition to Lexacom’s voice-to-text portfolio. It is a unique solution that records and transcribes any conversation with complete security, using the latest AI speech recognition technology. Delivered as a small, portable, standalone unit, Cabolo needs no access to the internet and nothing more than a power source
Continue reading Lexacom launches Cabolo: a unique, portable, standalone unit incorporating the latest AI speech technology to transcribe any conversation
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
Covid-19 has accelerated the NHS technology agenda – including a sharp rise in video consultations. But we now need to learn from this to realise a bigger opportunity to create sustainable and intelligent digital patient pathways based on evidence, writes Alan Lowe, chief executive at Visionable
Alan Lowe, chief executive at
Continue reading Fast and furious tech adoption could break NHS services
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
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