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Civil Service Awards: Big win for the caring collaborators
The Department of Health and Social Care’s ventilator team scoops the award for best Civil Service-wide collaboration - and they have never even met each other. Dubbed as a ‘career highlight’, the team responsible for the COVID-19 Oxygen, Ventilation, Medical …
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A week in the life of a planning inspector
We're currently recruiting for Band 1 planning inspectors – check out a week in the life of an inspector!
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Measuring success based on your experience
How will we know if we have made any improvements to finding and applying for grants. Laura Greenup needs your help now to help her assess our impact.
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Podcast: Understanding the complexity of users' lives
Why build a product people won't or can't use? Our user researchers share their approach to understanding needs for government’s single sign-on.
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Civil Service Awards: ‘No secret sauce to leadership’
Steve Glass topped the Outstanding Leader category for his role rising to the challenge of COVID-19. Steve Glass, officially the Civil Service Awards 2021 Outstanding Leader, is the personal pick of Cabinet Secretary Simon Case who championed this category. Steve …
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How we plan to improve school attendance following the COVID-19 pandemic
Face-to-face education is important in helping pupils to fulfil their potential. During school time we believe pupils should be in class with their teachers and peers and enjoying all the benefits that brings. School attendance has obviously been affected by …
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How we are providing more support for schools and students as plan B Covid measures come to an end
Last week, the Prime Minister announced the end of plan B Covid measures. To support schools as the measures come to an end, we have announced new funding for schools to help ensure our schools remain safe. These measures – …
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Supporting the MoJ Social Mobility Strategic Plan - Schools Outreach in Yorkshire
“For the MoJ to thrive as an organisation, it must reflect the society it serves at every level” - MoJ Social Mobility Strategic Plan 2019-2022 At the heart of the MoJ is the belief that diverse backgrounds can bring fresh …
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Why we are consulting on making it a requirement for instructors to display their badge
We update driving instructors the reasons why we are proposing to make it a legal requirement for approved and trainee driving instructors to display their registration certificates in their car windscreen when they bring their pupils for a driving test as part of our latest consultation.
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Comparing ethnicity data for different countries
The Race Disparity Unit at the Cabinet Office Equalities Hub have analysed different approaches taken by national governments to understanding how they compare on issues such as ethnic diversity and cultural identity.
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Civil Service Awards 2021: DWP's evolution of inclusion
The Diversity and Inclusion team in the Department for Work and Pensions paves the way for civil servants in the North East to achieve successful careers. ‘Diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ may look to some like a) a dance group, b) corporate …
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How to continue your professional development in the Civil Service
How we prioritise the learning and development of our people to meet their career goals in the DDaT team
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Could you become a Business Mentor?
Could you become a Business Mentor and have a positive impact on helping support Prison Leavers through challenges & into employment? Well if so then Going Forward into Employment has a great opportunity for you! Going Forward into Employment have …
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Emily Miles' stakeholder update - Morrisons, milk, and use-by dates
FSA Chief Executive Emily Miles discusses Morrison's recent news on using best before dates on some of its milk products.
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Key dates to look out for in 2022
Ahead of Countryside Stewardship 2022 applications opening next month, we’ve published the Key dates for 2022 document on GOV.UK. It shows you important dates in 2022 for Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES), so you …
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Creating empathy with users who have accessibility needs
The Digital Trade Finance Service team has been working hard to make its service more accessible, getting our whole team involved. This post explains how we used the GDS accessibility personas to do just that and what we learnt along the way.
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Civil Service Awards 2021: All aboard the data train
The Analyst and Data teams from the Department for Transport have been responsible for helping you navigate your journey through the behaviours of coronavirus. The pandemic has highlighted many things in society; one of these is the importance of having …
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Technical Advisers at the Export Control Joint Unit
We are looking for scientist and engineers interested in becoming Technical Advisers (HEO grade) at the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU). The posts attract a substantial specialist pay enhancement. ECJU provides operational delivery, technical and policy expertise on export controls. …
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Civil Service Awards 2021: Keeping up with the Jones
Civil servant Andrew Jones has snapped up the Rising Star Award at age 45, but promises that ‘The best is yet to come!’ Only 16 months after joining HM Courts & Tribunals Service, Andrew Jones is going places at break-neck …
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Civil Service Awards: Why victory is ‘over the rainbow’
The Civil Service LGBT+ Network, led by John Peart, triumphed in the prestigious Developing and Supporting People category for its groundbreaking mentoring scheme. As winning reactions go, it’s fair to say that John Peart’s on cloud nine right now. As …
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Updates to planning guidance to help safeguard England’s protected species and ancient woodland, ancient and veteran trees
Recently we updated our standing advice to help local planning authorities take planning decisions which protect and enhance England’s irreplaceable ancient woodland, ancient and veteran trees and our rare and threatened species. Natural England’s role is to provide advice to …
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Encouraging the return of pine martens and red squirrels to Kirkcudbright Training Centre
As Deputy Training Safety Officer for Kirkcudbright Training Centre in Dumfries and Galloway, I’ve been spending some of my time on a project designed to help Scotland’s native red squirrels. Kirkcudbright Training Centre is primarily used for infantry training, including …
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Farm visit: Hampden Bottom Farm, Buckinghamshire
Farm visits help us to better understand how farmers work and what’s important to them. In this post, I'd like to share what I learned during my visit to Hampden Bottom Farm in Buckinghamshire.
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Did you know the COVID-19 vaccine is available to anyone aged 12-15?
We all know that getting a COVID-19 vaccine is the best way we can protect ourselves.
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Update to Home Office Casework Guidance
Home Office casework guidance has been amended to correct a small error in relation to the ‘two year rule’. Individuals who have Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in the UK lose this status after two years’ absence from the UK, …
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Tools for climate policy: 2) systems mapping
This is the second blog in a short series on methods that Policy Lab has experimented with in the context of addressing climate change. It focuses on systems mapping as featured in a collaboration between Policy Lab, UCL and stakeholders in the UK’s industry and building sectors.
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How the Content Hub is taking on accessibility
The Content Hub is basically a restricted and secure intranet created, designed, developed and written solely for the prison estate. It's the only 100% prisoner-facing service in MOJ Digital and Technology. In developing it, we've been constantly awake to the …
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NICE AI Regulation Service alpha assessment
Read the alpha assessment report for the AI Regulation Service service from NICE. The assessment took place in October. The report was revised following a successful report challenge from the service team and finalised in November.
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How becoming a Cadet can improve your skills and qualifications
Being in the cadets give young people access to an unparalleled range of activities. That’s why we’ve invested £50 million into the Cadet Expansion Programme, to increase the number of cadet units in schools across the country.
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Government consults on plans to tackle waste crime
Today we are looking at the Government’s new plans to tackle waste crime and support people and businesses to ensure their waste is managed properly.
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New legislation reduces time and cost of gene editing trials for researchers
In today’s blog, we look at legislation laid on Thursday that shortens the time it will take researchers to conduct gene editing trials on plants.
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Evaluation: How it shaped the public dialogue on location data ethics
Evaluator Sophie Reid explains the evaluation process she used during the independent dialogue exploring public attitudes about location data.
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How do you feed an oral contraceptive to 2.5 million grey squirrels?
Marking this year’s Red Squirrel Appreciation Day, APHA’s Sarah Beatham describes her work, now entering its 4th year of research on developing an oral contraceptive for grey squirrels whilst protecting our native red squirrels and other mammals from eating it.
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Modernising planning software in collaboration with councils and their suppliers
Our digital planning software work is moving into a new phase of collaboration and delivery with Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and software providers. We continue to build on the success of the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications (RIPA) and Back Office …
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Dragons' Den, Episode 3, Series 19
There was a strong food-based theme cooking in the Den this week...but which inventions whetted the Dragons’ appetites for investment? It’s episode 3 in this series of Dragons’ Den and it’s my turn to blog again…three years to the week …
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Join us at our next Midlands Continuous Improvement Network Meeting on 28 January 2022
As a network we want to keep Continuous Improvement (CI) at the heart of everything we do and would like to invite you to join our next meeting on Friday 28 January 2022.
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Reporting the vital statistics - how data management has been central to the handling of the pandemic
Over the last two years the COVID-19 Dashboard has played a central role in managing the pandemic. This blog looks at the evolution of the dashboard, how the data features in our daily lives and why transparency is so important.
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Why it’s important for eligible parents and families of primary age pupils to Get Boosted Now
Protecting face to face education and minimising disruption in schools due to COVID-19 and its variants is our number one priority. The single most effective measure we have to minimise the spread of the virus and therefore the disruption it …
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Storm Arwen: from devastation to woodland regeneration
Hello, I’m Judith Peachey, Forestry Harvesting and Arboriculture Manager at Landmarc Support Services. We work with DIO to manage land and facilities across the MOD’s 190,000 hectares of UK training estate, and my job has a focus on long term …
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Deputy Director Science & Technology and Deputy Director Chief Research Officer- GCHQ
Science, Technology, Research and Innovation (STRI) is vital to GCHQ and the National Security community. Our ability to conduct cutting edge research and pull through innovative technologies and methods is fundamental to our mission. GCHQ has a rich and proud …