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Monitoring radioactivity in the environment
The Environment Agency has today published its Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE) report, now in its 25th year.
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Going beyond a Lived Experience.
This edition focuses on how Going Forward into Employment have extended their scheme to provide life-chance opportunities to a greater reach of the community.
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MHCLG looking for DDaT professionals for a new Birmingham HQ
The Digital Directorate in MHCLG is still less than three years old but things are going from strength to strength. As Chief Digital Officer, I am particularly proud of what we’ve achieved in this time: we are the highest rated …
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What happened when we stopped having meetings and sending emails
We took advantage of the switch to remote working and tried new working practices in GOV.UK Pay. Our aim was to help people find a balance between work and life that works for them. Here’s what happened.
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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the food chain
In our latest Food for Thought seminar, Dr Edward Haynes (Fera) and Dr Erin Lewis (Food Standards Agency) explore the impact of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the agrifood chain.
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The Food Allergy and Intolerance Research Programme - Dr Paul Turner
A seminar by Dr Paul Turner on food allergy in the UK and the impact of the FSA's Food Allergy and Intolerance Research programme over the past 10 years.
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Not a black and white issue: using racially neutral terms in technology
Why Home Office Digital, Data and Technology are replacing commonly used cyber security terminologies ‘whitelisting’ and ‘blacklisting’ with racially neutral terms such as ‘allow list’ and ‘deny list’.
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Coronavirus: recovering in our courts and tribunals
Susan sets out the steps being taken by HMCTS in shifting focus from the emergency response to one of operational recovery in our courts and tribunals.
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Scottish business, SnapDragon win Queen's Award for Innovation
SnapDragon Monitoring fights fakes online. We identify and remove infringing products from online marketplaces, social media sites, and websites. We use intellectual property (IP) to remove the fakes and the fakers - which is cheap, quick and efficient. Gone are …
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Introducing the GOV.UK Data Labs
The digital world is rapidly changing, and with it, GOV.UK users' expectations of how they should be interacting with our services and information. Data Labs is a newly formed multi-disciplinary team, passionate about using data in innovative ways to fulfil our users' needs and expectations.
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Leading by laptop: flexible working is happening in every school right now – what can we learn from this experience?
Headteacher, Sue Plant, has long been a champion of flexible working. But what has she learnt about working and leading flexibly while navigating the COVID-19 outbreak?
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New health and wellbeing guidance reminds us all to take care
Over a month ago, our Joint Chief Social Workers for Adults, Fran Leddra and Mark Harvey, used their Social Work With Adults blog to highlight the importance of maintaining human connections during the coronavirus pandemic. It remains important for the care and support workforce - as well as NHS colleagues and our communities - to …
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Want to work on digital services that matter?
The Home Office Digital Career Development programme offers an 18-month paid accelerated learning experience to those with a passion for user-centred digital services. You’ll follow a structured development path tailored to your chosen role with access to senior mentors and …
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Introducing the DCMS Libraries team
Find out about the range of work DCMS's Libraries team deals with, from supporting ministers and working with the British Library to writing superintendence guidance.
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Apprentices - making an impact at Home Office Digital Data and Technology
With skills in Digital, Data and Technology in high demand, the Home Office has a vision to establish a sustained, high quality flow of entry-level resources across all DDaT job families. Building our Civil Service workforce We know we need …
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Fighting ash dieback and protecting the future of our woodlands
We have at least 3 million ash trees across the MOD estate, so managing the tree disease ash dieback is a significant objective of our sustainable woodland management and long-term forest planning. Read on to find out more.
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Is 'compassionate ageism' the curse within social work and care?
In our social work with adults blogs this year we will be introducing thought provoking themes and ideas from across the sector. Ones that may challenge us, others that we can relate to, but all that will hopefully engage us …
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Riddle me this: ‘Ooo, advanced, clearly!’
Who would put ‘Croydon’ and ‘Ada Lovelace’ together? Well, if you solved this riddle - you! If you spotted the anagram in the title and you know what’s special about 9 October, it might be time for a new career. …
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New online booking system for training facilities will make life easier for our Armed Forces
A Bidding and Allocation Management System (BAMS Online) went live across the Defence Training Estate this summer. It is a new online booking service for our Armed Forces.
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Getting meta in Research Operations: researching researchers
How do you improve a service? By making sure that you understand your users' needs. In the Home Office, this type of understanding comes through conducting user research. But what if your users are researchers? Then you’re probably working …
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How the CMA investigates cartels
We provide insight into how we investigate cartels including the processes involved.
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Home Office in the media: Thursday 5 September
Today's leading stories include the launch of a national campaign to recruit 20,000 police officers, an announcement on future immigration and a High Court ruling on facial recognition. Police recruitment The launch of the campaign to recruit 20,000 additional police …
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Working with us to tackle cartels
This blog explains what happens when you report a business cartel to us and the processes we have in place to help protect those who 'blow the whistle' on them.
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Why well-meaning ideas can have unintended consequences
Jane Devine, Senior User Researcher, explains why doing a discovery is important for both government and users
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Telegraph: The Environment Secretary on government reforms to boost recycling
A look into The Telegraph's ‘Zero Waste’ campaign.
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What is understood by 'deletion of a non-significant parameter'?
The Variation Classification guidelines list approximately 350 different types of variation change codes and classification sub-categories. These variations fall under three possible procedure types: TIA, TIB or TII and cover the active substance and finished product, devices and safety, efficacy, …
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Defining policy outcomes for event fees
Sheldon Ferguson writes about the Leasehold Reform team's discovery into event fees. Read how a user-centred design approach influenced outcomes, and view the publicly available report delivered to ministers.
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Health Matters: What you need to know about statins
Statins are vital in the UK effort to save many thousands of preventable deaths every year caused by cardiovascular disease. With extensive research confirming that statin treatment is very effective, safe and affordable, it is important that the myths and inaccuracies around them are dispelled. Read this blog to find out what you need to …
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Eating Disorders Awareness Week – Megan's story
Cabinet Office Health & Wellbeing Champion Charlie Edwards introduces Megan Phelps's account of living with anorexia.
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Ageing and health expenditure
Does an ageing population lead to higher costs for the NHS and social care? Find out why this is not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
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Help us start a data revolution for government
We want to start a data revolution focusing on service delivery and improving human experience. Find out what we think government needs to do and how you can help.
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Biodiversity net gain matters
Guest blog from Nicola Thomas, Partnership Manager at Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Natural Environment Partnership writes a guest blog on net biodiversity gain.
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The Commission on incivility and extremism
Since the Commission for Countering Extremism came into existence in March this year, we have visited 13 towns and cities across England and Wales. Many of our meetings have been with frontline counter-extremists, community groups and local politicians. Almost all …
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Health Product People: designing and delivering better health and care digital services
The Health Product People community was started in January 2018 to bring together people working on digital services across the health and care space to share ideas, collaborate and work together to solve problems. The Health Product People community builds …
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It can be difficult to make data from information
The Digital Land services team recently ran a discovery in which we researched the barriers our users encounter when trying to find and use housing data. This is the first in a series of posts about those barriers, or what …
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Monitoring radioactivity in the environment
This blog refers to our 2018 publication of RIFE I’m one of the Environment Agency’s radiation specialists and scientists. Our radiological monitoring team works with CEFAS and our partners to pull together and analyse data from our UK-wide radiological monitoring …
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A professionals' perspective on the deputy online reporting service
Amy Feetham, accounts paralegal at law firm Irwin Mitchell, discusses her experience of using our online deputy reporting service. Irwin Mitchell was the first professional organisation to use the deputy online reporting service which launched in spring 2018.
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Flu vaccination: What you need to know about the 2018 programme
With another flu season almost upon us our Medical Director Professor Paul Cosford has answered some key questions about flu and flu vaccination.
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Teaching computers to read
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Managing the Overseas Estate: the importance of local staff
Hi, I’m Brigadier Simon Stockley and I’m responsible for the provision of infrastructure to support our personnel in their bases overseas, while simultaneously providing Defence training facilities in the UK and around the world. Today I wanted to take the …