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Environmental land management schemes: progress update
Yesterday, Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries and Janet Hughes, Programme Director, Future Farming and Countryside Programme appeared before the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. The session was part of a committee inquiry into the rollout of the new environmental land management schemes.
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Around the World in Eighty Ways
Today, we published a report developed for us by Frontier Economics on the topic of circumvention. But what is circumvention, and why do we care about it? Imagine a countervailing duty on Prussian telegraph keys has just come into force. …
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Health on the High Street: The Role of Public Libraries
November is men's health awareness month. Darren Smart from Somerset libraries tells us about how Somerset libraries are supporting the NHS to bring health to the high street.
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COP27 Update: employers prioritising green skills training
November is the United Nations Climate Change summit COP27. With the conference in its second week, we want to highlight some of the brilliant employers working hard to provide green skills training to their apprentices, with a total of 70 …
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Create a flexible tutoring model to maximise the academic impact of tuition
The Bemrose School in Derby has pupils aged 3-19. They started delivering tutoring in October 2020 to compensate for lost learning during the pandemic. Executive headteacher, Neil Wilkinson encourages other schools to develop a flexible tutoring model that is responsive …
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The Planning Software Improvement Fund is open for applications
The Planning Software Improvement Fund aims to help Local Planning Authorities in England (LPAs) to improve the digital services they use for the submission and assessment of planning applications - the development management side of local planning.
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Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
CDDO’s Securing Government Services team discuss the domain name system that allows people to easily find websites and other internet services. Here they question removing legacy services such as the .gb. domain
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Self Care Week 2022: exercise your power
Self Care Week, the annual national awareness campaign, encouraging support for self care across communities, families and generations, is back and lead, once again, by the Self Care Forum.
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Whatever you do, don’t click on the link!
During International Fraud Awareness Week, Neil Freebury, our Head of Intelligence, talks about fraud and the importance of not clicking on that suspect link.
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The RPA Podcast: Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of The RPA Podcast. In our latest episode, Richard Anderson, who leads the Field Officer teams at the RPA, talks about the RPA’s more collaborative approach to inspections and visits, and the improvements we …
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The RPA Podcast: Episode 4 Transcript
Executive Summary The Rural Payments Agency’s more collaborative approach to inspections and visits RPA has introduced a more partnership-based approach to inspections, moving away from the penalty-based system under the EU to a more farmer-focused visit for schemes such as …
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Cost of living: supporting food charities and businesses to deliver food you can trust
Katie Pettifer, Director of Strategy and Regulatory Compliance, introduces our new guidance to help community food charities keep food safe.
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Too hot to handle? Adapting to the impacts of marine climate change in the Gulf
As world leaders meet at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt this week, Cefas Middle East Programme Director Will Le Quesne discusses the challenge of climate change facing the world’s …
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Enabling delivery teams to understand and apply the Government Service Standard
Kerry, a content designer from DFE, describes her work with service assessors and teams across the department to ensure that the government Service Standard and collective community standards can be found, understood and applied.
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A breakthrough year for digital sustainability
This year has been a transformative period for sustainable ICT, and the publication this week of the 2021-22 Greening Government ICT report marks the latest milestone on our important journey.
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No excuse for illegally burning waste
People burn waste to avoid the charges for taking wastes to permitted waste sites for recovery or where this is not possible, disposal. This is waste crime.
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How we are helping more students benefit from foreign language lessons
Modern foreign languages like French, German and Spanish are really useful to know – not just for visiting counties that speak those languages, but employers increasingly see language skills as highly desirable. That’s why we are investing £14.9 million over the …
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Refurbishing a historic London barracks
Our DIO teams in the South East oversee a rich and diverse historic estate. We're responsible for the maintenance of some iconic sites including Horse Guards Parade, MOD Main Building in Whitehall, and Wellington Barracks, which is only a …
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An update to Find a Grant - Apply for a Grant!
Lucia Webster provides a programme update; introducing Apply for a Grant, the application process for a limited number of grants on Find a Grant.
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Shaping my business analyst career through learning and development
Kelly is shaping her career through learning and development opportunities. Find out how a Business Analysis conference boosted her career confidence.
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A day in the life of a Service Designer in Defra
Interested in joining Defra as s Service Designer? Hannah Rutherford-Roke tells us about her role as a Senior Service Designer and why she chose to work for Defra.
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Keeping everyone safe and secure in school
In this blog, Russ Bland, Head of crime, fire and health and safety resilience for the Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA), tells us about the targeted work that his team are doing to keep schools with particular risks as safe and secure as possible.
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DEFRA: Programme Manager- Grade 6
Do you have the leadership, technical skills & experience to be at the centre of shaping and delivering a World Class Construction Programme? Can you be instrumental in growing the right culture where H&S is at the heart of how …
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GOTT: Senior Manager, Capability and Delivery Partnerships, Tech Transfer Strategic Partnerships- Grade 6
Are you interested in a stretching and fast-faced role helping to deliver on the government's priority to become a science superpower? Would you like to play a key role in building partnerships with public sector organisations and supporting procurement processes …
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Government Office for Tech Transfer (GOTT): Technology Transfer Strategic Partner- Grade 7
Do you enjoy identifying and developing new opportunities for commercialisation and knowledge transfer? Are you successful at building relationships and fostering partnerships? Would you like to play a key role in boosting the exploitation of public sector innovations and driving …
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Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT): Senior Policy Advisor- Grade 7
Are you interested in a stretching and fast-faced policy role, helping to deliver on the government's priority to become a science superpower? If so, this opportunity could be perfect for you! The UK’s public sector is a thriving source of …
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GCHQ: Software Solutions Architect
We are GCHQ, we unlock the complex world of communications to make a real difference to the safety of the nation. We work closely with our partners in the intelligence community to safeguard Britain’s people, interests, and businesses from threats …
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OPSS: Senior Engineer- SEO
Our Team: We are a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers delivering testing capability across the broad portfolio of Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) regulatory requirements. The team works across our new laboratories at the Centre of Product …
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Working with letting agents and landlords
Stuart Stone, Rent Officer and Stakeholder Manager, explains how sharing data about your rental properties can help to build a more accurate picture of the private rented sector.
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Taking a proactive approach to preventing and responding to bullying
Stephanie Bendall talks about how the school has been recognised as an Anti-Bullying Gold Award winner by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA).
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Right tree, right place, for the right reasons
The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS) sets out criteria and guidance for the sustainable management of forests and woodlands in the UK. Here are the seven key factors you need to consider.
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Leading in Practice - our next report
Committee chair Lord Evans looks ahead to the publication of CSPL's next report on embedding the Nolan Principles in the culture of public sector organisations.
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NHSE Standards Directory Beta Assessment
Read the beta assessment report for the Standards Directory from NHS England
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Supporting pupil’s learning and development through engagement with nature
One of the objectives of the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy is to increase opportunities for children and young people to learn from and connect with nature and improve biodiversity in their schools. There are a number …
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Supporting blind and partially sighted library users
This blog was originally published on the DCMS Libraries Blog on 13 October 2022 for World Sight Day. Currently throughout the UK there are over 2 million people living with sight loss and this number is only expected to rise. …
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Field Officers: Proud to help our farmers
With the introduction of a more supportive, partnership-based approach to site visits, moving away from the penalty-based system of inspections under the EU, to farmer-focused visits for schemes such as the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS), Field …
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Remembrance Day – what it means to me
Defra IT Training Lead, and Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran, Tony Horseman, explains what remembrance means to him and why he attends the annual service at The Cenotaph each year.
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Summer Interns - Diversity, Dyslexia and User Centred Design
Morgan Doel writes about his experience of the Summer Diversity Internship Programme and how his dyslexia became a strength when working on User Centred Design.
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Education for prisoners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
This blog sets out some of the findings from our year of enhanced focus on the quality of education in prisons.
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Work starts on reviewing the case for screening for SMA
Researchers start work on new project to review evidence for newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy.