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The Farming Innovation Programme in 2022
In October, we launched the first rounds of funding in our Farming Innovation Programme. As we've been processing the applications, we've seen a promising spread of ideas across the livestock, horticulture and broadacre sub-sectors. These ideas are coming in from across the whole of England. In this post, I'll share next steps and what to look out for this year.
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What you need to know about secondary school offer day
On Tuesday 1 March year 6 pupils across the country will find out which secondary school has offered them a place for September 2022.
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Great new workspaces for DWP Digital
Take a look at our new test and learn workspace in Newcastle.
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Unexpected notifiable disease confirmed in Somerset
Whilst the current avian influenza outbreaks make all the headlines, let us turn our attention to a disease that hardly anyone expected anymore: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
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Future Farming Podcast: Government-funded innovation
In the seventh episode of the Future Farming podcast, Tim Mordan, Defra’s Head of Farming Innovation, Productivity and Science talks to Rui Andrês, CEO of Fieldwork Robotics, about their innovative raspberry robot picker.
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Living with an eating disorder
Eating Disorders Awareness Week (28 February - 6 March) helps fight misunderstandings over anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and other eating disorders. It also highlights the importance of receiving professional help early. Below, Martin Riley shares his experiences. I can’t pinpoint …
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Help for teachers and families to talk to pupils about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and how to help them avoid misinformation.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is distressing and concerning, and we understand children and young people may have questions or be seeking reassurance. We know that schools are well placed to talk to pupils about the images they are seeing and …
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Factsheet: Home Office action on Ukraine
This factsheet is no longer being updated. Please read Home Office visa support for Ukrainians factsheet for the latest information. Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an unprovoked, premeditated attack against a sovereign democratic state. President Putin has chosen a path …
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COVID-19: Moving towards recovery for schools, colleges and universities
The COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it has made necessary have had a significant impact on the education, health and social development of our children and young people.
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Tony Juniper reappointed as Natural England Chair
Today we are looking at a media interview on Tony Juniper’s recent reappointment as Natural England chair. There is positive coverage today in the Guardian following Tony Juniper’s recent reappointment as Chair of Natural England. Tony Juniper was interviewed on …
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Health and social care integration: local perspectives
"‘Joining up care for people, places and populations’ is not just the title of the Government’s Integration White Paper, but an aspiration for us all" says Paul Najsarek of Solace, the membership network for public sector and local government professionals. He believes local expertise can deliver local solutions, as he explains in his debut blog for this site...
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Charities Bill: the next steps
This week the Charities Bill received Royal Assent and passed into law as the Charities Act 2022. This blog covers what happens next, and the key changes charities can expect.
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Incident report: increased error rate on GOV.UK on 5 January 2022
On 5 January 2022, some GOV.UK users saw errors when accessing the site. Here’s what happened and how we responded.
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Dragons' Den, Episode 8, Series 19
Handmade sip-from-the-jar apple and nut-based liqueurs and watch straps made from pineapple. These are just some of the exciting innovations seen on Dragons’ Den this week – but did the entrepreneurs’ pitches bear fruit? Read our blog to find out more!
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Media factsheet: Hong Kong BN(O) Visa route
On 31 January 2021, the UK launched a bespoke immigration route for British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) status holders and their family members. The route reflects the UK’s historic and moral commitment to those people of Hong Kong who chose to retain their ties …
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'Your profile' on the Content Hub
Research found people in prison need easy access to their timetable, account balances, incentive level, and when their next visit is - this is how we fulfilled those needs and why. The Content Hub is a platform available to people …
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MHRA Good Practice Symposia Week (7 to 11 March 2022)
From Monday 7 to Friday 11 March 2022, the MHRA will be hosting a week-long series of events as part of the Good Practice Symposia Week. The week will include individual events from GCP, GLP and GPvP Inspectorates. Due to …
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Managing Together – discover what it’s like to be one of HMRC’s 13,000+ managers
Within our organisation, people managers have a critical role, from helping to deliver essential services, to enhancing the employee experience of their teams. To support our managers in doing their roles effectively, we have developed the ‘5 Core Functions of …
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Get the facts about student loan reform
We have announced a radical shake up of the higher education system. Under our proposed new measures, our world-leading higher education sector will aim to deliver the highest quality education for all students while providing even better employment prospects. At …
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Rural Payments Agency Launches a New Podcast
The Rural Payments Agency has launched its first ever podcast! We will be publishing a series of podcasts throughout 2022 to help farmers, landowners, and rural communities keep up-to-date with the latest news and announcements from RPA. The RPA Podcast …
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The RPA Podcast: Episode 1 Transcript
James: Hello and welcome to the Rural Payments Agency’s first ever podcast. I’m James Ryan and during 2022 we’ll be bringing you a series of short podcasts to help farmers, landowners and rural communities keep up-to-date on developments at the …
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How we’re improving the Service Manual’s guidance and navigation
The Service Manual team shares how they worked with cross-government communities of practice on guidance and used a design sprint to improve navigation.
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Making a service map ...in a policy department
Alice Whitehead writes about how the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities produced created a service map.
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COVID-19: Simple and effective ways to protect yourself and others
We know the pandemic is not over, so it’s important we continue to take simple and effective actions that will protect our families and communities, particularly those at the greatest risk of severe illness.
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CMA secures final Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google
The CMA accepted Google's commitments to address competition concerns over its Privacy Sandbox proposals, but it's important we get this right. If you have views on our approach to both monitor and assess the effectiveness of the proposals, we want to hear from you.
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Finding policies that work
The Evaluation Task Force has launched a £15 million fund to accelerate evaluation activity across government to improve our understanding of what works and inform better decisions. There is growing enthusiasm for improving evaluation practice across government. In a 2019, …
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LGBT+ History Month: embrace diversity
Inclusion, acceptance and respect are all essential qualities in the world of social care, as much for those who provide services as they are for those who receive them. Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, believes LGBT+ History Month is the perfect opportunity to celebrate diversity across the care sector.
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LGBT+ History Month: reflections on progress
Chief Social Worker for Adults, Lyn Romeo, has witnessed unprecedented changes in LGBT+ rights over her years as a social worker. Whilst there is still much to do, as we celebrate diversity through the ages during LGBT+ History Month, Lyn reflects on how far we have come as a society.
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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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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.