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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
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
Medi-Immune Ltd have revealed their ProtectivAir® compact, wearable, breathing device which will protect front-line healthcare staff and those
ProtectivAir® in use on a medical professional
working in biologically-compromised environments. ProtectivAir® is currently awaiting testing against the Coronavirus at PHE Porton Down. ProtectivAir® has proven extremely effective against a range of
Continue reading Medi-Immune Ltd Announce Covid19 Tests
CIoJ President, Professor Tim Crook
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
The Chartered Institute of Journalists is calling for the emergency government measures to help businesses cope with the COVID-19 crisis to be extended to individual freelance journalists known as ‘sole-traders.’
The Institute says individual freelances are already experiencing substantial cancellation of contracts, assignments and projects
Continue reading CIoJ calls on government to provide emergency support for freelance journalists
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
The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group – representing the largest value sector in UK construction – has expressed major concerns over the impact of COVID-19 on SMEs (which comprise 99% of firms in the construction industry).
SEC Group is highlighting a number of concerns relating to sharp practices, disruption to repair and maintenance contracts (which
Continue reading LEADING CONSTRUCTION BODY RAISES ALARM OVER SEVERE IMPACT ON SMEs OF COVID-19
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Once upon a time, automation was mainly associated with manufacturing assembly lines and little else. Fortunately, we’ve moved past assembly lines; automation today plays a critical role within an optimised IT environment in everything from robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to
Continue reading IT Pros and Automation: A Match Made in Heaven
Dr David Staples, Chief Executive of the United Grand Lodge of England
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Freemasons are calling for the whole community to ensure no one feels alone, even if they are physically self-isolating, by remembering them in a toast at 9pm tonight.
The 200,000 strong membership organisation traditionally toasts ‘absent Brethren’ to
Continue reading Freemasons are inviting the whole country to toast ‘absent friends, and those working on the frontline in the NHS’ at 9pm tonight
Institute of Economic Development Executive Director Nigel Wilcock has told GPSJ:
“This might be the budget that brings Keynes back in vogue with the Office for Budget Responsibility expecting the expansionary measures to create a demand-led economic boost. Certainly, from the budget speech there was little not to like – some emergency fiscal loosening, some
Continue reading Comments to GPSJ on the 2020 Budget
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
Network of over 100 Electric Forecourts® across the UK will solve electric vehicle charging concerns, and pave the way for electric vehicles to become mainstream in the earliest possible timeframes
GRIDSERVE announces today that the first of a nationwide network of over 100 Electric Forecourts® is now under construction and will open this summer, offering
Continue reading UK’s first Electric Forecourt® is under construction, opening Summer 2020
By Evan Wienberg, co-founder and CEO of Truespeed
A new year is a time for renewal and resolutions. The UK government’s plans to invest billions in infrastructure transformation in the budget on March 11 and shape up the UK’s digital economy by accelerating the delivery of full fibre broadband across the country are undoubtedly full
Continue reading Full fibre broadband – balancing private and public investment
Paul Moorby, Managing Director, Chipside
Connected cars are one of the most hyped technologies in the ‘internet of things’ (IoT) sphere, sending and receiving real time information from the world around them. Not only can they connect with people and emergency services, they can also be connected to other cars and the road
Continue reading The rise of the connected car
ibml processes high-volume government documents for stringent, mission-critical needs, meeting the highest quality and security standards across many departments in a secure, safe environment
New product offers transformative solutions for outdated information management processes
Imaging Business Machines, LLC (ibml), the leading global provider of intelligent information capture solutions, unveiled its next generation of ultra-high-volume
Continue reading ibml unveils world’s fastest, ultra-high-volume, intelligent scanner: the ibml FUSiON, the most comprehensive intelligent information capture solution
Latest updates as Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes government appointments:
The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of:
Lord Callanan as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Gillian Keegan MP as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Education.
Paul
Continue reading Latest updates on ministerial appointments
Fire and rescue services battling Storm Ciara have had their annual funding cut by £141.5 million over the last four years, according to Fire Brigades Union (FBU) analysis of England’s local government finance settlement coming before Parliament today (Wednesday 12 February).
The worst storm-hit areas in England – Cumbria, West Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester
Continue reading Storms Ciara & Dennis: Multi-million pound cut to local services responding
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