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Getting ready for the consumer protection changes in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
New powers for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Today we are publishing our draft rules and procedural guidance covering an important aspect of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) – the new direct consumer enforcement …
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What is a chemistry sample and why does the Environment Agency do them?
My name is Lucy, and I am a Field Monitoring Officer in the National Monitoring Field Team. My role involves collecting water samples from bathing waters and rivers. I take several types of samples but today I am going to …
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Transforming tax: millions now using the HMRC app
If you’re checking your pay, changing jobs, viewing your state pension forecast or claiming Child Benefit, where do you go for the right information? Rather than wading through paperwork or picking up the phone, the HMRC app is becoming a …
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Significant progress made with SMA screening in-service evaluation planning
The latest meeting of the SMA Screening In-service evaluation Partnership Board heard that significant progress had been made with the planning of the newborn screening ISE for spinal muscular atrophy.
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Combatting crime in rural communities
Sgt Dan Goss from Merseyside Police Rural, Wildlife & Heritage Team shares how working collaboratively with the Environment Agency and others is helping to stop waste crime across Merseyside’s rural areas. Merseyside Police is one of the newest forces to …
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How Heat-Health Alerts contribute to keeping the vulnerable safe this summer
This week’s higher temperatures have triggered a yellow Heat-Health Alert, issued for England by the Met Office and UKHSA. While some may question the necessity of such warnings, it's crucial to understand the significant health implications that accompany changes in temperature. In this blog we look at the importance of taking action to protect the …
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GSE Profession at Civil Service Live 2024
Civil Service Live is an annual staff-learning conference, designed to allow civil servants to network, listen to thought-provoking sessions and share experiences and expertise. It is also an opportunity for civil servants to demonstrate leadership, learn new skills and improve …
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Lord-Lieutenant for West Yorkshire Visits Accu to Present The King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade
Accu, a leading precision engineering components supplier, was honoured with The King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade last Friday (19/07). The prestigious award was presented by the Lord-Lieutenant for West Yorkshire, Ed Anderson, in recognition of Accu’s outstanding achievements …
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Innovative solutions unveiled at the Deepfake Detection Challenge Showcase
On July 17, the iconic Ministry of Sound in London became the hub of groundbreaking tech innovation as it hosted the Home Office led Deepfake Detection Challenge Showcase. This event marked the culmination of many months of hard work and …
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We Are Strategic Command with Lilly Lotay
Discover how Lilly ensures compliance with critical procedures, adapts to diverse locations, and promotes UK Defence through Strategic Command's support and leadership. Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself and tell us about your background? Lilly: I'm Lilly Lotay, and I've been …
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National conversation needed on how to turbo-charge Nature recovery while building the homes the country needs
England doesn’t have enough houses, and also doesn’t have enough Nature. If we are to succeed in meeting our national needs, we require more of both. For too long we’ve been told that the only way to build more homes …
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Surpassing 4 million interactions: how we made collecting data a doddle
How we followed the GDS Service Standard to enable 4 million interactions with businesses.
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Steve from the Grants Service team tells us about his work as an RPA Ambassador
RPA offers a range of grants and rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, Steve France from the Grants Service team writes about his work attending shows as an RPA Ambassador. The Ambassadors represent RPA by engaging with …
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What are bamboo plastic composites and why they shouldn’t be used for food or drink
Food products made from this mix of bamboo and plastic can leak substances including formaldehyde and melamine into food or drink, especially if the product is heated up or comes into contact with acidic foods. Usually harmless, when consumed at high levels or over a long period of time they can be potentially harmful to …
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Enhertu: Everything you need to know
You may have seen recent reports about the decision to not recommend a life-extending drug called Enhertu (Trastuzumab Deruxtecan) for the treatment of breast cancer on the NHS. Following ongoing commercial discussions between NICE, the NHS and the drug manufacturer, …
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Generative AI in subsurface science and policy
Policy Lab has experimented with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in policy development with teams across government, and beyond, for a number of years. In 2019 we worked with the Department for Transport’s data science team to consider the role that AI …
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Futures on the Fast-Stream: how futures training and resources influenced my work
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Tatiana Sirikova, free use from Pexels By Jack Thirlwell, Migration Strategy Team Leader, Population and Migration Division, Directorate for Culture and External Affairs, Scottish Government In this blog, Jack shares how learning about futures has supported …
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The vital role of hydrography for maritime safety, efficiency and sustainability
Rear Admiral Angus Essenhigh OBE, the National Hydrographer and Director of Data Acquisition and Defence at the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), shares his insights to mark World Hydrography Day, which took place on 21 June, celebrating the vital role of …
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Holme Fen National Nature Reserve peatland restoration project
By Catherine Weightman, Natural England’s Senior Project Manager for Peatland Restoration in the Fens - West Anglia Team I’ve been working for Natural England and its predecessors for more than twenty years. I’m currently working on peatland restoration in the …
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How you can help us resist the tiger mosquito’s conquest of Europe
This post was last checked in June 2025. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected and the climate changes, the UK faces challenges that we might associate with more exotic destinations. One such challenge is the potential introduction of invasive mosquito …
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Free Speech Act: what you need to know
In 2023, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act became law. Due to concerns from vulnerable groups about how the rules might harm student welfare, we are stopping the implementation of the Act. This means that although the Act received …
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SEO – Private Secretary, Government Office for Science
An exciting opportunity for current Civil Servants has now opened to join the Private Office of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA), Dame Angela McLean, At the Government Office for Science (GO-Science). Job Description In this role, you will work …
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Into the woods: growing up with the trees
Join us for this month's 'Into the woods' blog by Faye Dawson, who shares her experiences of growing up with a family-owned woodland near Bath.
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Maintaining Professional Standards
Some of you are reaching the end of your Driver Qualification Card’s (DQC) life. So you’ll need to make sure that your training is booked and logged as soon as you can and certainly before it expires.
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Grants Service team visit Cowsden Bank Farm to talk about FETF grants
RPA offers a wide range of grants and rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, Georgina Ling from the Grants Service team writes about her visit to Cowsden Bank Farm in Worcestershire, to understand their experience of applying …
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Improving our digital services
How HM Land Registry digital services are helping to make registration faster.
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Pursuing Professional Development in Justice Digital
Joining the Civil Service As a young professional, I never anticipated my career would lead me to the Civil Service. I believe I speak for many twenty-somethings when I say I struggled to envision myself fitting into the mould of …
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Maintaining Professional Standards
Some of you are reaching the end of your Driver Qualification Card’s (DQC) life. So you’ll need to make sure that your training is booked and logged as soon as you can and certainly before it expires.
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Working with stakeholders to finalise England's '30by30' criteria
In this post, Senior Policy Advisor Danielle tells us how she's been working with stakeholders to finalise England's 30by30 criteria.
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Welcome to new Going Forward into Employment Deputy Director Dr Victoria Hanna
In this GFiE Blog edition; we welcome our new Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) Deputy Director Dr Victoria Hanna and get to know a little more about Victoria and her first impressions of GFiE. Tell us a bit about yourself …
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Fish on Film: the challenges of using AI to improve sustainable fisheries management
In January this year, Cefas installed a Remote Electronic Monitoring system on our research vessel, the Cefas Endeavour. Why, you might ask… Do you really need to monitor a vessel that is already doing monitoring? Remote Electronic Monitoring - Let’s …
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International cooperation helps understand the threat from an invasive forest pest
Dr Daegan Inward shares his insights into the ongoing studies on Ips typographus, the pest of spruce trees also known as the eight toothed spruce bark beetle.
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Asking for guidance part 3: The case of the curious caution
We explore a caution relating to a tithe in this, our third Ask for Guidance case study.
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Farewell to SSAC
I joined the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) in 2014 as an academic with twenty years research and teaching expertise in social security law, alongside ten years as Executive Director of the Law Centre Northern Ireland. While all of this …
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Information Commissioner's Office unveils data strategy: How we are shaping the future of data in regulating information rights
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) shares how they are using data to empower through information.
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The Environment Agency has published its annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) report
The Environment Agency has published its annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) report of the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies during 2023. The EPA is the only independent comparison of environmental performance across the sector. While it …
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Storm recovery in Lincolnshire
My name is Paul Dutchburn, and I am the Asset Performance Team Leader in the South Humber & East Coast (SHEC) in the Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire Area. Six months after the eighth storm of the 2023-2024 season, I am now …
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Celebrating success this awards season
CDIO, Rich Corbridge reflects on how the collective efforts of DWP Digital colleagues has been the driving force of success and industry recognition over the past 12 months.
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Generative AI in government: DBT’s next steps
How DBT has been working with partners across government to learn about the potential value that AI tools could bring to our support for businesses.
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An exciting job opportunity for veterinary surgeons at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Do you have the veterinary expertise that can help us innovate and develop new, cutting-edge technologies? Are you excited by the prospect of interesting and challenging scientific problems that, owing to their sensitivity, cannot be done elsewhere? Can you see …