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The science behind our carbon offsetting
Jenny Connell has worked in the Environment Agency for 15 years. She is a Senior Specialist in the Environment Agency’s net zero team – and here, she gives an insight into the science behind the EA’s carbon offsetting strategy to mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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MyNavy 2022: New features, award wins & preparation for an even bigger 2023
What an incredible year 2022 was for the MyNavy team. We scaled to 40,000 users, developed 14 new features, expanded outside of the Royal Navy and continued to deliver against our goal of supporting all personnel in living the best …
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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023 at the FSA
Ahead of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we hear from some of the many women in the FSA who use science every day to keep food safe, on how they got into STEM.
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An interview with Kristofer McGhee, General Counsel at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
An interview with Kristofer McGhee, General Counsel at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Kristofer, General Counsel at IfATE, is a solicitor and senior civil servant leading IfATE’s legal and governance functions and supporting the organisation to deliver its objectives in …
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Dragons’ Den, Series 20 Episode 6
From pre-loved fashion to a retractable dog safety gate, the deal hungry multi-millionaires had plenty to sink their teeth into this week.
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Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week
Discover more about the knowledge and experience a range of Digital, Data and Technology colleagues have gained through apprenticeship schemes.
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Commissioner for Countering Extremism on the Independent Review of Prevent
The Independent Review of Prevent, written by William Shawcross, is a vital contribution to the nation’s ongoing attempts to combat extremism and terrorism. Prevent aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. The recommendations arising from the Independent Review …
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National Apprenticeship Week: What does an apprenticeship at the TRA look like?
This National Apprenticeship Week, we are reflecting on how apprenticeships can help individuals develop the skills and knowledge required for a rewarding career. Apprenticeships provide on-the-job training alongside studying, allowing individuals to gain essential workplace skills to aid their career …
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Conducting ethical internal research
As User Researchers, we champion user-centred approaches, and our work can be internal or external facing. As part of being user-centred, we have a duty to protect our participants’ data, as well as their wellbeing and safety; this applies whether they are members of the public or other civil servants and staff. In this blog, …
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New round of Farming Equipment and Technology Fund grants opening soon
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund is part of the Farming Investment Fund. It offers grants for specific items of equipment to increase productivity, boost environmental sustainability and improve animal health and welfare. Today, we published the full list of items available through the fund. In this post, I’ll explain what is available, when you can apply …
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Empowering primary school children to take a proactive approach to wellbeing
Claire Lee, head teacher at Burley Oaks Primary School in West Yorkshire shares how her school is supporting pupil wellbeing at an earlier age to help them as they grow up.
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Ofsted's webinars for schools - spring season
Lee Owston and Jonathan Keay invite you to hear directly from Ofsted on school inspection policy.
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What does policymaking look like?
Professor Paul Cairney from University of Stirling writes about different ways to visualise the policymaking process.
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Bridging the gap – from hospital to home
Hayley Robertshire is a senior manager working in residential and nursing care in the north east of England. Here, she shares her thoughts on how care colleagues can provide solutions to hospital discharge pressures and support admission avoidance strategies
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Considering a flexible approach to providing driving tests
Earlier in the year we shared our plans with you to investigate ways we could create a modern, flexible and efficient driving test service. One that is less dependent on fixed driving test centres, and takes advantage of new technology. DVSA's Head of Driver Transformation John Selbey, shares some more details with you about the trials and …
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Race equality at Companies House
To reinforce the commitments we’ve made around equality, diversity and inclusion, Companies House is a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. In doing this we committed to improving racial equality in the workplace. Find out more.
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Chief Executive’s message to stakeholders - The horsemeat crisis ten years on
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the horsemeat crisis.
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Samarkand celebrate their Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in International Trade
In 2016 it was clear to entrepreneurs and co-founders David Hampstead and Simon Smiley that international brands were not capturing the full market opportunity in China. Together, they set out to build a business that would close the cultural, commercial, …
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The night sky in February
This month provides a great chance to see a comet and watch Venus and Jupiter appear to move towards each other.
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From growing up watching PMQs to supporting the delivery of government's major projects
This week marks National Apprenticeship Week 2023 (NAW23). At the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), we wanted to celebrate the brilliant and inspiring apprentices across government, by hearing from one of our own, Luke Cryan (Project Futures Team) as he …
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Climate and health security: Looking ahead to 2023
The start of each year is a time where we recall the previous year and anticipate the year ahead, and there’s much to reflect on. For climate scientists, there’s no doubt that 2022 was remarkable.
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National Apprenticeship Week 2023: introducing some of IfATE's apprentice network
This week is National Apprenticeship Week 2023. To celebrate, we want to introduce some of IfATE's own apprentices, who are part of a newly formed apprentice network within the organisation. Following the latest apprentice panel survey, six recommendations were made, …
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How Ofqual acts in the interests of apprentices
National Apprenticeship Week is the perfect time to talk about how Ofqual’s work benefits apprentices, and the employers they go on to work for. Specifically, I want to look at apprenticeship end-point assessments (EPAs). Apprenticeship end-point assessments EPAs are tests …
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The triple burden of flu, RSV and COVID-19
In November 2022 the SARS-CoV2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation study, or SIREN for short, expanded to study flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). This blog explains what we hope to learn from this work.
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Cleaning up rivers polluted by abandoned metal mines
The problems facing water are complex, with multiple sources of pollution affecting water quality. One of the lesser-known areas of the Environment Agency’s work is cleaning up pollution from abandoned metal mines. Mining played a major part in Britain’s rich industrial history, but this also left thousands of abandoned mines scattered across our landscape. Almost …
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Helping to keep rivers flowing but not flooding
Debbie Thompson leads the Stour Field Team and has been with the Environment Agency for 15 years. Here, Debbie explains how the team works throughout the year to help protect communities from flooding and improve the environment for people and nature. The 14-strong field team can be seen working across this large chunk of east …
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Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier now open for applications
Today we have opened the application window for Countryside Stewardship (CS) Higher Tier (HT) revenue agreements which will begin 1 January 2024, and we wanted to share some information about the scheme for this year. HT is open to all …
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How we’ve improved the 'Ready to Pass?' website
Find out how we've improved the 'Ready to Pass?' website to include better information to help learner drivers prepare for their driving test and a lifetime of safe driving.
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In conversation with our digital apprentices, Donna and Tom
To mark National Apprenticeship Week 2023, Donna and Tom share their experience of completing a digital degree whilst working at DVLA.
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The Annual Health and Welfare Review: rolling out yearly vet visits
At around this time last year, I wrote a post introducing the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. I’m pleased to tell you that the first step on the Pathway, the SFI Annual Health and Welfare Review, is now ready to be rolled out. In this post, I'll explain how to register for a funded annual visit from …
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Tree Health Pilot: our improvements and progress
The Tree Health Pilot is a 3-year scheme which tests different ways of slowing the spread of tree pests and diseases as well as building the resilience of trees across England. Using what we’ve learned so far from testing and feedback, we’ve made a number of improvements to better support land managers to deal with …
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Tackling Inequality is Everyone's Business - Uzy Michael, Programme Manager, NDA
This Race Equality Week I am reflecting on my own experiences and reflections on the barriers to race inequality. I have recently celebrated my one-year work anniversary at the NDA, and I am happy to be working for an organisation that …
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World Cancer Day: How the government is tackling cancer
Cancer impacts on the lives of everyone, either directly or through a family member or friend. The government is fully focused on fighting cancer on all fronts – prevention, diagnosis, treatment, research and funding – to deliver the best possible …
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UK government set to host major international finance event in support of UN Nature COP15
Today we are looking at coverage of our event to drive forward action on the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Join Services Week 2023
Services Week, the cross-organisational event series for people working in the UK public sector, is back. Returning for the fifth time, Services Week 2023 will take place 20 to 24 March 2023. The theme for this year is Designing for …
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Celebrating the joy of nature
Below Bea Finch, a co-chair of the Civil Service Network 4 Nature shares what they’re doing to bring nature a little closer for us all. A quarter life crisis led me to help set up Network 4 Nature, a network …
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Apprenticeship Journey Q&A – Howard Falconer
The Government has made it clear that it sees the nuclear industry as vital to the country’s future security of energy supply and as an essential part of our net zero ambitions in the UK. And this is starting to …
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Apprenticeship Journey Q&A – Bethany McKee
The Government has made it clear that it sees the nuclear industry as vital to the country’s future security of energy supply and as an essential part of our net zero ambitions in the UK. And this is starting to …
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Coverage on fur and foie gras
Today our media blog addresses speculative coverage on the governments position on fur and foie gras.
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RPA members – if an incident were to happen, is your school cyber secure and are you covered?
In April 2022 the department included cyber cover as part of its Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA). We are almost a year on and Katy O’Connor, RPA Future Projects Strategy and Delivery Lead thought it was a good time to check in and see if all members are taking full advantage of this vital cover.