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Words matter: shaping our Home Office content style guide
In our latest blog, Steven Shukor, Principal Content Designer, explains how we’re setting content style standards across the Home Office.
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Family Hubs and Start for Life - everything you need to know
We are committed to giving every baby the best start in life. Here’s what you need to know about the government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life programme. What is Start for Life? There is strong evidence that the 1,001 …
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Collaboration across government grants is paving the way for more efficiencies
Nadeem Ilyas from DfT is part of an innovative pilot to make grants more efficient, which will result in more electric charging points and much more
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Three trends shaping the future of engineering
For head of asset management at Sellafield Ltd, Gary Dixon, harnessing the latest technology and applying them on an industrial engineering level is something that he gets to do every day.
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Voter ID requirements for voting in person
The Government has introduced identification for voting in person across Great Britain. Voter identification has been recommended by the Electoral Commission since at least 2014 and is in line with the longstanding arrangements in Northern Ireland, which has had the …
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Making the service assessment process easier and more consistent
For the last 18 months, we’ve been investigating and implementing initiatives for how we check and improve our digital services against standards, specifically, the Government Service Standard. Our research findings show that the way we assess these services in DfE …
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Why become a charity Interim Manager?
Interim Managers can play a crucial role in turning around a charity that has encountered problems. The Charity Commission is looking for more firms to join our list of approved practitioners whose nominated individuals will be considered for future Interim …
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OFSI launch FAQs
On 1 May, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) introduced Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), a new form of additional guidance aimed at providing technical support to industry partners and the public. Our FAQs are designed to offer easily accessible …
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Professor Stephen Hardy reflects on joining SSAC with ‘an insider view’
As an academic, researching into employment and social security law, I often found myself looking at the wealth of work undertaken by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) from the outside. Therefore, when they advertised for new Committee members with legal …
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An Ambitious Civil Service: introducing the Policy System Framework
A guest blog by Serena Nüsing, Senior Service Designer in the Policy Profession Unit Are you a civil servant who’s passionate about improving policy capability at an organisational level? Do you want to know if your organisation is best set …
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How reducing the cap on faith school admissions will help to raise standards
Faith groups run some of the best schools in the country, including in some of the most disadvantaged areas. Current rules mean that religious free schools are only allowed to offer 50% of places to pupils based on faith. Some …
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How did singing and dancing pills raise awareness of antibiotic resistance?
In 2017, the Keep Antibiotics Working campaign targeted groups who were most likely to use antibiotics (mothers of children aged 0-16, and people aged over 50), and healthcare professionals dealing with patient care and prescribing. In this blog post, we look at a peer-reviewed study investigating the impact of the campaign.
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Homelessness data
This morning we published the quarterly homelessness statistics. Whilst we continue to make good progress, there is more work to do to achieve our goals on tackling homelessness and eradicating rough sleeping. We want everyone to have a safe place …
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Windrush Schemes Factsheet – March 2024
We are determined to put right the terrible injustices faced by some people from the Windrush generation and the wider Commonwealth, which happened under successive governments. The Windrush Scheme ensures members of the Windrush generation can get the documentation they need to …
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UK NSC screening seminars: let us know what you'd like us to cover
Send us your ideas for topics to cover at future UK NSC online screening seminars.
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How we work with partners to push the boundaries of vaccine R&D
As we release our Commercial Strategy, I wanted to reflect on the ways in which we partner with industry to drive greater innovations and better health outcomes. One unintended consequence of the response to COVID-19 was the suppression of many …
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How we’re taking our circular economy message on the road
Buoyed by the positive reaction to their session and panel discussion at the recent Government Digital Sustainability Alliance (GDSA) Summit, Mimi Moll and Emily Watson-Breeze from the Circular Economy Working Group share their key reflections from the event and set out their priorities looking forward.
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Our approach to inspecting small schools
Small schools are a valuable part of our education system. Pupils who attend them have unique experiences. Leaders who lead them have lots of opportunities, but also face many challenges. In this blog, we set out how we take these …
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Celebrating 10 years of Design102: A Q&A with Managing Director, Peter Rainey
April 2024 marks a decade of creativity, innovation and growth at Design102. To celebrate this landmark birthday, Managing Director Peter Rainey reflects on the Design102 journey so far and looks forward to the future ahead.
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Landscape Recovery: The Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery Project
Our project, the Waveney and Little Ouse Landscape Recovery Project, sits on the headwaters of the 2 rivers, covering over 1,600 hectares between the towns of Diss on the Waveney and Thetford on the Little Ouse. The project seeks an opportunity to realise the invaluable services our floodplains provide. In this post, I'll share an overview of our work.
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Learning at Work Week 2024: Power of lifelong learning
As we approach Learning at Work Week 2024, it’s a great opportunity to engage in this year's theme of lifelong learning and get involved with webinars and learning opportunities. Webinar learning: A gateway to knowledge During Learning at Work Week, …
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Coverage about the cost of new border checks
Today’s blog outlines the government response to recent coverage on the potential cost of new border checks
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Shropshire Petals on applying for grants
RPA offers a wide range of grants rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, RPA talks to farmer Jim Bubb, on how the Improving Farm Productivity grant has made his business more efficient with the addition of droid …
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Farewell and happy retirement to GFiE Director Peter Lawrence OBE
Pete Lawrence, Director for GFIE, retires in May after 43 years in the Civil Service. We caught up with Pete to ask him a few questions about the highlights and challenges of his career. He shared with us a few …
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World Vets Day 2024: Veterinarians are essential health workers
As the global veterinary community celebrates World Veterinary Day 2024 tomorrow, Jane Clark, Director of Veterinary Services for the Food Standards Agency, shares her thoughts on the vital role of Veterinarians in public health and the opportunities and challenges facing the profession.
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Avian Influenza in US cattle
In today’s blog we look at media coverage of highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle in the United States.
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Leading the charge: Embracing low carbon construction in nuclear
Andy Sharples, our project director, explains what net zero looks like for our major infrastructure delivery, and how sustainability at Sellafield Ltd is being integrated into everything we do.
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When are year 6 SATs 2024? Key dates for parents and pupils
Year 6 pupils in England will soon be taking the key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum tests, which are often referred to as SATs. The assessments are used to measure school performance and to make sure individual pupils are …
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Sustainable innovation that makes you go “Ooho”
Sustainable packaging business, Notpla, has developed an all-natural packaging solution made from seaweed. We spoke to co-founder, Pierre Paslier, about how IP plays a vital role in the success of his company.
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Being assessed and assessing – a tale of two perspectives: Part two
David Thomas reflects on his recent work assessing the Defra Forms service, and offers some useful tips for teams preparing for assessment and for colleagues on the other side of the fence.
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What risks does government face? How generative AI can help us think more broadly.
Over a year on from the release of ChatGPT, there are now lots of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in various stages of testing and development across government. I’m genuinely excited by the enthusiasm and opportunities that I hear about in …
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Coverage of the Renters (Reform) Bill
There has been widespread coverage of the Renters (Reform) Bill today (Thursday, April 25) after it passed its third reading in the House of Commons yesterday, including The Times, The Mirror, The I, BBC Online and the Evening Standard. Many …
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Army women's cricket development tour in Gibraltar
Under the captaincy of Officer Cadet Milly Till, the 16-member squad from the Army Women’s Cricket Team arrived in Gibraltar, eager to make the most of the week-long training sessions. As the team prepare to take on civilian cricket teams, …
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Marham Bulls Rugby Football club visit Gibraltar
RAF Marham’s Rugby Club, known as Marham Bulls RFC, participated in an intensive week-long training camp in Gibraltar in preparation for the RAF Cup Final in May against either RAF Coningsby or RAF Akrotiri. The Bulls, formed under Group Captain …
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Changes to the Gibraltar skyline as ATC radar retires after 40 years' service
As from yesterday, Tuesday the 23 April, works began which will change the skyline on the top of the Rock of Gibraltar. Since April 2022, there have been two Radar domes (golf balls) at the top of the Rock while …
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Delivery mission book club: great reads to boost your productivity
Over the last month we have been focusing on the topic of what it means to be an ambitious civil servant, and how programmes across departments are helping us deliver outstanding service to the public. In our recent newsletter, we …
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How we found inspiration at the Women in Leadership conference
4 Women in Leadership conference attendees from DBT share their reflections.
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How we value: hotels
In this instalment of our How We Value series, we explain how we value hotels across England and Wales.
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Forming good habits early in Figma
No matter which software you use for your role, there is every likelihood that you might not be using it in the most efficient way. This is not a criticism. We are all human and generally when we find a …
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Armed Forces Parliamentarians arrive in Gibraltar
Three Members of Parliament and four members of the House of Lords recently visited Gibraltar as part of the annual Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme. The scheme, which started in 1989, offers Members of Parliament and the House of Lords the …