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How Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic History is taught in our schools
Schools play a crucial role in helping young people understand the world around them and their place within it.
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Environment Secretary at the NFU Conference to set out animal health and welfare support for farmers
Today we are looking at media coverage of the Environment Secretary speech at the NFU Conference 2022.
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What the driving test eyesight check might be like in the future
We are consulting on a number of proposals to encourage learner drivers to be better prepared to take their driving test. This blog explains why we are proposing to change the law so that we can carry out driving test eyesight checks in any level of light.
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Public trust in location data depends on who is using it and why, survey finds.
This blog unpacks some of the key findings of the Geospatial Commission’s survey on location data ethics.
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Help us shape the GOV.UK Design System!
Read about the results from past GOV.UK Design System user experience surveys and complete the 2022 survey to tell us about your experience with the Design System.
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Chair's stakeholder update - Levelling up and healthy eating in schools
Our Chair Professor Susan Jebb discusses the Levelling Up White Paper and support for healthy eating in schools, as well as the FSA supporting food strategies in Northern Ireland and Wales.
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New dawn for disability - our exciting plans for 2022
Deputy Civil Service Disability Champion Ben Merrick, a disability role model on dealing with his blindness, shares how the Civil Service continues to improve the workplace for disabled colleagues. Being disabled can often be seen as a barrier. I hope …
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Training Civil Servants with Hacking Skills
An apprentice in the Cabinet Office discusses why it is important to learn cybersecurity and hacking.
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How school leaders can build a flexible working culture
Asma Maqsood-Shah, Principal of High Hazels Academy talks about how she helped to transform the school’s culture and motivate staff through flexible working.
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Our priorities for the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
Today, we published our initial priorities for the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. They represent some of the best opportunities for improving animal health and welfare we have across each livestock sector. In this post, I’ll share those priorities.
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Farming Equipment and Technology Fund: grants issued
Recently we ran the first round of our new Farming Equipment and Technology Fund. We received 5,624 eligible applications worth a total overall value of just over £53.5 million. This is triple our initial budget allocation for the fund.
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Women in project delivery: "How I overcame imposter syndrome" Kuljit Sagoo MBE
This blog is part of the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s Role Models Campaign, which aims to increase diversity at all grades in the Project Delivery Profession. Kuljit Sagoo MBE is the Deputy Director for Civilian HR at the Ministry of …
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Precautionary allergen labelling - The May Contain Consultation
Our precautionary allergen labelling consultation closes in three weeks and we want to hear from businesses and industry bodies on the challenges they face. We're looking for your views on what a better system for providing this information might look like.
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What is internal audit? No, really, what is it?
When I was asked to write this blog, I recalled a chat with a colleague about our attempts to explain our work to family and friends (yes, auditors do have friends). Our efforts largely resulted in blank expressions and swift …
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What the latest advice on testing and self-isolation means for education settings
This article contains out of date information about Covid-19 in schools. We no longer recommend routine testing. Please visit this link for up-to-date information. On Monday 21 February, the Prime Minister announced the removal of measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic as …
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Publication of RPC Independent Verification Body Report 2022
The RPC has published its IVB report, which offers comments on the Government’s recently published Business Impact Target Report for the period December 2020 to December 2021.
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We’re taking action to keep Britain safe from Russia’s malicious activities
Home Secretary Priti Patel writes in The Sunday Telegraph about the Government's work to keep the UK safe from Russia's security threats. The situation in Ukraine remains critical. As colleagues across government and friends around the world have said, an …
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10 tips for doing hybrid meet-ups well
Post-pandemic, we're working more flexibly from both the office and home. Hybrid meetings are the new way forward, with people attending online and in person. Here Alex Rippon, Digital Communities of Practice Manager, shares her 10 top tips on how to make hybrid meetings a success.
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The International Design in Government community is 5 years old!
As the International Design in Government community turns 5, we look back on what has happened in the last few years and how it continues to evolve.
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Slurry: making the best of it
Slurry contains lots of nutrients including nitrates, phosphate and potash as well as a host of other things that can benefit soil health and support crop growth. It can, however, create significant pollution to our water and air. Through co-design, our team joined with a group of farmers, industry leaders and experts to explore the subject. In this post, we’ll share what we’ve learned and how we plan to support farmers so that nutrients from slurry aren’t lost, that any damage to our environment is reduced and farmers aren’t dependent on expensive artificial fertilisers.
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How we’re developing slurry grants
Today, we've blogged about how we're working with farmers and others across the industry to use slurry to our advantage. Farmers told us that finance often stands in the way of improving their slurry and nutrient management systems. Investing in slurry equipment and infrastructure is expensive. Particularly when it comes to integrating new technologies, techniques and building infrastructure. In this post, we'll share how we've been developing slurry grants to better support farmers and what to expect later this year.
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Major Challenges & Cautious Optimism
My Experience of the Excellence in Central Government Event It’s always interesting when you get a group of digital professionals together. When you get them together at a hotel, for a conference, and an overnight stay - you really start …
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Join Our Driving Inclusion - Allyship Event
The North West Civil Service Local Diversity and Inclusion network proudly present – Allyship – What does it mean?, the importance of Allyship and how you can become an Ally.
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Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot milestones
We have achieved a significant milestone this month. We issued the first batch of quarterly payments to those Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot participants whose agreements started in November 2021. This has been the culmination of hard work across teams …
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Using a federated model for API discovery in government
The CDDO Data Standards Authority are working on the discovery of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within and between different government departments and agencies. APIs are a great way to share data as and when it’s needed using agreed open formats, rather than copying and duplicating data in different places.
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Accessibility for all
We explore GAD's commitment to ensuring as many users as possible can read our information. It's all part of our ongoing project to embed accessibility into our documents across a range of platforms and products.
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We’re looking for 3 new members to join expanding UK NSC: apply now
The UK NSC is recruiting 3 new members to support its expanded role and remit.
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Regulators’ experience of clinical trials during the Covid-19 pandemic (Part 3) – looking forward
In parts one and two of this series, we looked at how we responded to the unprecedented challenges the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we have learned. In this final part, we explore the challenges ahead. Remote access to EHRs …
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Dragons' Den, Episode 7, Series 19
Cold brew coffee in a can, single use plastic alternative, a game changing way to bike ride indoors and an app to make charity giving easier. This week’s episode had plenty of inventions for making the modern world better.
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DWP Digital is improving cross-government data sharing
The Labour Market Data Trust Pilot has enabled us to explore improved data accessibility between the four government departments closest to everyday Labour Market activity. In this blogpost, Paul Lodge our Chief Data Officer, explains more.
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The Public Health Data Asset (PHDA) - When Collaboration meets Innovation
The Public Health Data Asset (PHDA) was created at the start of the pandemic to bring together all relevant health data assets. The dynamic project was developed through the collaboration of various ONS teams, including Data Architecture, Data Acquisitions, Operations …
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Trade in live coral: how we are developing tools to improve tracking of the most traded marine animals
It may come as a surprise to some that corals are not rocks or plants, but marine invertebrate animals made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny organisms called polyps, joined together by limestone skeletons. Corals are the building blocks …
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Political impartiality guidance for schools – what you need to know
We want all pupils to finish their education with the knowledge and skills to be able to form clear opinions about issues they see in the world. That’s why it’s really important that teachers are able to help pupils decipher …
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Growing awareness and use of Explore Marine Plans
What is Explore Marine Plans? Explore Marine Plans (EMP) is a digital service developed by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and is an online, interactive resource that supports the implementation of England’s marine plans. The digital service allows you to …
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Our focus on literacy and numeracy – what it means in practice
In February, we announced a package of measures to level up education across the country and ensure every child is given the best start in primary school.
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Electric Vehicle Charge-point Grants - Are you missing out?
Financial support is available for the up-front costs of electric vehicle charge-points. Darren Handley from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles wants to get the word out to many more people.
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Use half term to make sure your family is vaccinated
This February half term, we are encouraging everyone who is eligible – including those aged 12-17 – to get a COVID-19 vaccine or make sure that they are up to date with a booster.
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Standards Bodies: Who's who? (2)
In the second in our series of blogs looking at the various standards regulators, Shirley Pearce explains the role of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and the Electoral Commission.
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Environment Agency investigation into sewage treatment works
On 18 November 2021, the Environment Agency and Ofwat announced major investigations into potential widespread non-compliance by water and sewerage companies at sewage treatment works. This update sets out what we’re investigating, what has happened since we announced the investigation and more about what flow-to-full treatment is.
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Supporting Civil Service colleagues through loss
How Civil Service colleagues support each other through loss Supporting staff experiencing bereavement and loss is a key Civil Service health and wellbeing priority. In part seven of Adam Land’s bereavement series, Charlotte Bedford talks about the Bereavement Network she …