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What a demographics survey told us about the diversity of our design team
The GDS design team aims to reflect the diversity of the society it serves. We conducted a demographics survey to see how well the design team represents the population of London before taking the next steps of improving the equity of the team.
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Permanent residence documents and the EU Settlement Scheme
There has been some misreporting today on Mr Bosi's application for a permanent residence document. A Home Office statement is below, as well as an explanation of the difference between permanent residence documents and the EU Settlement Scheme.
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Environment Minister Rebecca Pow visits Wallasea Island
In today's blog, we look at Minister Rebecca Pow’s visit to RSPB’s Wallasea Island. Joining the Minister and RSPB were the representatives of the Environment Agency and Natural England.
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From DoLS to LPS: an important time for mental capacity
Sometime in the next few months, the transition from Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) to Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will begin. Hugh Constant, Head of Practice Development, Consultancy and Training at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, looks ahead to what the changes will mean in practice.
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GSE Opportunities: Vacancies in SEO Research and Communications Manager (Conflict Analysis, Lessons and Training) and G7 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor
This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.
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Food waste falls by 7% per person in three years and Tesco to stop using plastic wrapping on multipacks
Today's blog looks at new data showing almost half a million tonne reduction in total UK food waste in just three years – enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall ten times - and the announcement Tesco will stop using plastic wraps on its multibuy canned food products.
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Check out the latest Government Security job opportunities
Looking for a new role, promotion or a challenge? Check out the latest Government Security opportunities being advertised now. We have listed a few below: DIO Fort Blockhouse Security Support Officer, AO Ministry of Defence - Fort Blockhouse, Gosport Deadline: …
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Resilience & Rapid Response Award
The Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre Blue Watch of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency won the 2019 Resilience & Rapid Response Award for their actions in operations including the evacuation of 130 people from an oil rig.
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APHA inspiring kids to look after plants and native wildlife
A lot of great science is carried out on a daily basis at APHA and our scientists relish opportunities to demonstrate that science can be exciting and easy to understand. In this three minute read, find out how our scientists enjoyed showing children at the Countryside Days event at the Great Yorkshire Showground just how fun science can be.
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Difference is good – how we are becoming more inclusive
Colleagues from across the Civil Service exchanged ideas and shared their experiences of diversity and inclusion at a packed event in Salford.
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Apprenticeships
Today our blog focuses on the latest news on apprenticeships.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Rising Star Award
The Department for International Trade's Cindy Kim was the recipient of the Civil Service Award in a new category for 2019, Rising Star.
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Business Analysis Programme at DVLA - four months on
We've just completed the first end of module assessment for our Business Analysis Development Programme. So it seems a good time to look back at how the first group have settled in. Gary Young, Head of Business Analysis tells us more.
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Update on the gender pay gap - 2019
Civil Service Gender Champion Antonia Romeo comments on the gender pay gap data published by ministerial and non-ministerial departments.
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The importance of keeping windscreens clear - a tragic reminder
In October 2017 NHS Doctor, Suzanna Bull was killed by a lorry driver whilst cycling in Birmingham. Our blog post reminds lorry drivers of the importance of keeping their windscreens clear of obstructions.
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Duncan Selbie's Friday Message - 24 January 2020
This week our CEO's message includes the novel coronavirus outbreak, vaping, loneliness, declining HPV infection and MenB disease rates, the Faculty of Public Health's new strategy, and PHE's new Health Matters edition on physical activity.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Inspirational Leadership Award
Paula Holbrook-Witt, of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, won the Inspirational Leadership Award for her work in supporting people with a hearing disability in the workplace.
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Wuhan novel coronavirus: what you need to know
Wuhan novel coronavirus: read our blog to find out what you need to know.
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Security Minister: We’re going the extra mile for EU citizens here
Last week, the Security Minister wrote in The Times Red Box on the certainty we're providing to EU citizens through the EU Settlement Scheme.
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Coming soon to a town near you…: the LPC visit programme 2020
For more than twenty years now, the Low Pay Commission’s regional visits have been an important part of our annual programme. The data alone only gets us so far: talking to the people working on the minimum wage, or the …
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Commercial Award
The Voluntary Pricing and Access Scheme Negotiating Team in the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England received the Commercial Award for securing a five-year deal to accelerate the uptake of new innovative medicines for NHS patients.
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New data to help inform future student choices
This data is a milestone for the thousands of future students, helping them to work out whether university is for them, and where to study and work. I hope this will particularly help students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are often more likely to study in their home region, as the data shows the potential benefits of gaining a degree wherever you are.
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Helping users to access our online services
A blog post from Mike Brazier, on how we’re offering different types of support and testing different ways of delivering them to users who want to use our online services but need a little help.
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Lord Goldsmith speech at anti-trophy hunting event and new Natural Capital tool
In this afternoon's blog, we look at coverage of Defra’s new online Natural Capital resource launched yesterday and Lord Goldsmith’s speech at an anti-trophy hunting held in the Houses of Parliament.
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What we learned from commuter students
'Commuter students’ stay at home and study rather than moving to be close to their university. This can have a significant effect on their university education. Our Lab did some user research into this, and here Helen Snowden talks about what they learned and their recommendations to policy makers.
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Innovation & Science Award
The Troubled Families Evaluation and Policy Team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government won the Innovation & Science Award for their pioneering evaluation work on the Troubled Families programme.
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Why we do research at Ofsted
Daniel Muijs, our Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation, talks about how and why Ofsted carries out research.
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Get your IP in shape
Getting fit this January? Don't forget to work on your IP assets too! We step inside the gym and explore the significance of brands in the sportswear industry.
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Significant landmark as primary HPV screening is offered across England
Primary HPV screening has now been fully rolled out and is being offered across England. This significant landmark will improve screening by identifying more women at risk of cervical cancer.
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Land use report and condition of England's Sites of Special Scientific Interest
In today's blog, we look at widespread coverage of a new Committee on Climate Change report about land use and the condition of England’s Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
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Discovery at the Ministry of Justice
Hello, I’m Scott and in this post I’m going to explain how: I started using discovery we improved discovery at the MoJ we define and review discovery at the MoJ. You might know me as Head of Product but I …
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Health & Wellbeing Award
The latest in our Week of Winners blog posts looks at the recipients of the Health & Wellbeing Award, the Cross-Government Menopause Working Group.
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Civil Service apprentices - how we are managing our future (2)
In this, the second in a series where we ask civil servants to talk about their experience of managing apprentices, we hear from Malcom Watson of Crown Commercial Service.
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A look back at the 9th Transforming Together
In November, the Infrastructure & Projects Authority, the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) jointly hosted its ninth and largest Transforming Together event. These event series bring together the cross-government community who …
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GCSE tier entry in 2020
As the deadline approaches for making GCSE entries, we know that schools and colleges will be thinking carefully about the appropriate tier of entry for their students in those subjects that are tiered – maths and statistics, the science suite …
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Civil Service Awards 2019 - Week of Winners: Diversity & Inclusion Award
We look at the contribution that won HMRC's Bristol Race Network the Diversity & Inclusion category at the 2019 Civil Service Awards.
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Reducing risk of hip problems in babies
A project led by the North Cumbria and North East Screening and Immunisation Team has helped to strengthen the newborn and infant physical examination screening pathway and identify best practice tips.
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Missed our recent Talking Points webinars?
If you were unable to join us on some of our latest Talking Points webinars, this is your opportunity to catch up. We have selected some of our recently recorded webinars, which will help you and your clients when completing Self Assessment tax returns
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Ofsted’s Annual Report: highlighting some of the big issues for social care
Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s National Director for Social Care, discusses our latest Annual Report.
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Building life and work skills for Scotland’s young people
We learn more about how Young Enterprise Scotland (YES) is helping young entrepreneurs gain the skills they need to start a business.