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Cyber Cover and the Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA)
Georgia Shepherd, Product Delivery Lead for RPA Cyber, talks about how the Department for Education is improving risk management across the school sector by introducing cyber cover into the risk protection arrangement (RPA) product from April 2022.
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Getting ready to make your Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier application
Applications for Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier opened on 8 February 2022. Application packs can be requested using the Rural Payments service. The pack will be emailed to you and will contain the information that we hold for your business …
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Integrating scientific research into government: Grey Parrot Model
In a recent study researchers found that African grey parrots show a remarkable willingness to help their peers achieve their goals by lending a wing, so to speak. Inspired by this example, we gave our model the name in honour …
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National Careers Week – Becoming a grade 7 at age 25
Its National Careers Week, so we’re sharing some great stories of our people and how they’ve developed their careers within HMRC and the wider Civil Service. Read on to find out about Holly’s journey. I don’t think many people grow …
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How I forged my career in Defra
As National Careers Week gets underway, our Head of Strategic Resourcing and Organisational Development Maggie Bosniak shares her reflections of a 25-year career working in various parts of Defra group and highlights the many opportunities for young people to join us.
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Food Standards Agency - Job Vacancy for a Field Operations Veterinary Delivery Leader
Background The FSA is a non-ministerial department of over 1300 people with the key responsibility to protect public health and consumers’ wider interest in food and animal welfare standards A key function for delivering this work is shaping and guiding …
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Creating content for women in prison
The Content Hub is a good way to meet the needs of both staff and prisoners. It allows prisoners to access content relevant to their journey and frees up staff time. The 'Your profile' area gives prisoners visibility over their …
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National Careers Week: Science and Engineering
Do you like to solve problems and discover new things? If so, then a career in government science and engineering might be for you.The government is always on the lookout for talented, versatile people to join, and the scope of …
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NAO report on tree planting
On today's blog we look into coverage of the NAO report on tree planting
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Your Future and the North West Civil Service
This is an exciting time for the civil service, promising lots of new opportunities for colleagues throughout the north west. But how much do you know about these programmes? And how can you be ready to take advantage of them?
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Building an integrated health and care system with staff and patients at its heart
The health and social care integration white paper sets out our ambition to bring together NHS colleagues and their social care counterparts within an integrated system with people's needs at its heart, writes Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
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Inspiration and innovation – the best bits from Hackathon 2022
We recently took part in the 3D Hackathon 2022, a virtual cross-government event, to share ideas and pitch new prototypes of digital services. Tom Collins, Principal Software Engineer, reflects on this year’s pitches and winners.
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Hen harrier monitoring, and the actions taken when a tagged bird is lost
Alongside our partners, Natural England is involved in a number of initiatives to support the recovery of hen harriers in England, including satellite tracking birds to investigate patterns of dispersal and survival. In this blog, we will share the latest …
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How we are strengthening family support and helping thousands more families to adopt
The importance of a loving, stable family cannot be overstated, no matter what shape it takes. That’s why, this week, we have unveiled a series of measures to strengthen support for new and growing families in adopting, investing millions of …
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External care givers really are essential
Family, friends, and external carers are integral to care home residents’ wellbeing and safety. The relationships they have with their loved ones underpin who they are and remain just as important, if not more so, when people move into a residential service.
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Podcast: Agile delivery - theory vs practice
In this episode, we catch up with Barry Traish, Hannah Dell'Armi and Shafiq Porter from our Delivery practice who share their thoughts and experiences.
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Operation Goldjuno: joining forces to stop crime in the waste industry
Kevin Knight, Senior Environmental Crime Officer, discusses an operation carried out by the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) and the Environment Agency to tackle catalytic converter theft and wider illegal waste site operations. Last year Operation Goldiron involving the …
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Reviewing the Authorised Examiner Designated Manager (AEDM) role
In this blog post Helen Jacquest explains the changes we’re making to the AEDM role to make the role’s responsibilities clearer.
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Commission for Countering Extremism hosts inaugural conference
The Commission for Countering Extremism hosted its first conference last week, bringing together academics, policy-makers, and operational and regulatory partners to discuss ‘Extremism in the UK: What does it look like and how should we respond?’ Robin Simcox, Interim Commissioner …
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We’re accelerating our move towards digital applications
From November this year, ALL portal AP1 applications are to be submitted using the Digital Registration Service.
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UK supports global action to tackle plastic pollution at UN Environment Assembly
In today’s blog we are looking at media coverage of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly.
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The Well-Being Sweet-Spot
Future Generations Commissioner, Sophie Howe, writes about how Wales is leading the world on delivering public value to citizens.
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Finding the technologies that matter
We, the Technology and Science Insights team in the Government Office for Science, are updating our list of priority technologies for 2022. We are on the hunt for new technologies so we can provide up to date …
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Identifying CITES-listed sharks amidst a global pandemic
Warning: This blog contains images of sharks without fins or heads as part of a training exercise to identify species by their trunks. Some people may find this distressing. Since last we spoke It seems like a lifetime ago since …
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World Hearing Day - 3 March. The Rose Looks Fair
To mark World Hearing Day, Ian Wallace hails the success of Strictly Come Dancing star Rose Ayling-Ellis as a trailblazer for the deaf. Every year on 3 March, World Hearing Day is celebrated. On this day, the World Federation of …
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Why I’m celebrating World Book Day
On the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, Defra librarian Abbi Smith shares her passion for reading and explains how this passion has been passed to her 10-year-old son, Walt, who is already an avid reader himself.
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World Book Day – Reading for pleasure from an early age benefits children throughout their education and beyond
Today (Thursday 3 March), on World Book Day, schools will be celebrating by inviting in authors and encouraging children to dress up as their favourite characters, helping them form a longstanding love of reading.
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A FAIR wind sets our course for data improvement
There is a bit of a buzz about making data more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). Is this a path towards a data utopia where everyone gets the data they want, in the way they want, when they want …
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How students can benefit from Student Space
In February 2022 University Mental Health Day co-founders, Student Minds announced that their mental health platform ‘Student Space’ would be receiving further government funding via the Office for Students (OfS) to run until the end of the academic year. Take …
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DVSA’s youngest driving examiner breaks the mould in her new role
Emily Butler became DVSA’s youngest car driving examiner aged 23 when she started her role in Hartlepool last year.
Emily shares her experience of why she became an examiner, what the training was like and how she’s getting to grips with her new role.
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Understanding and improving farming regulation
Some farming and land management activities are regulated to safeguard our environment and to protect the health of animals, plants and people. We do this through around 150 pieces of legislation, comprising primary and secondary legislation. All of this legislation applies to agricultural activity, and collectively constitutes what is known as the ‘regulatory baseline for agriculture’. This is a complex legislative picture and is not easy to navigate – we intend to improve and evolve this baseline in future as part of our agricultural transition outside of the European Union (EU).
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I was always a computer nerd! In conversation with Gina Gill
Gina Gill, MoJ’s Chief Digital & Information Officer was recently featured in the internal Gender Equality Newsletter. Gina talks about her journey as a woman in tech, biases she has faced along the way, and lessons for women joining the …
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Reform and Modernisation Champions - Creating the Northwest Network
Join our new Modernisation and Reform Network in the North West. First meeting 16 March 2022
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New inspection framework for lead providers of the early career framework and national professional qualifications
Chris Russell, our National Director for Education, discusses this new area of our work. Today, we have published our new framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of the early career framework (ECF) and the reformed suite of national professional …
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How GDS’s design recruitment process works
In this blog post, we give an overview of the design recruitment process and what to expect once you’ve applied for a job.
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Podcast: Improving navigation on GOV.UK
When was the last time you noticed any changes to GOV.UK? We share how and why we’ve updated its homepage and menu bars.
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Setting up an Accessibility Book Club
Interested in running an Accessibility Book club? Read about one at the Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology, with accompanying resources to help you get started.
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How we created a new security training course for the Civil Service
Bob Mistry and Tony Green, from the Defra security team, share their experiences of working with partners throughout the organisation to develop a new online security training course that will be used by hundreds of thousands of civil servants across government departments in the future.
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Diversity leads to better decision-making
The Government Security Function’s mission is to defend the UK government from security threats whilst protecting the public. To do this effectively, they’re driving up diversity of thought in every area of their work. The Government Security Function is made …
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Working together to avoid delays to probate applications
Stopped probate applications can take more than double the amount of administrative time to issue compared to those we can issue on our first attempt. We could increase the number of grants issued by over 50,000 each year for practitioners if we work together to reduce the number of stopped applications.