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How we value for business rates
This is the second part of our series on understanding your business rates. Here we look at how we value.
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Agile Coaching or Team Coaching: either way, it’s a powerful collaborative tool
Lead Agile Coach Hannah Dell'Armi explains how agile coaching is a powerful collaborative tool, helping you to unlock solutions to challenges and make progress towards your goals.
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Hunting for the Asian hornet
To mark this year’s Asian hornet week, Rebekah Clarkson from APHA’s National Bee Unit (NBU) talks about the work the NBU is doing to crack down on this invasive species and how you can report sightings.
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Creating an effective waste crime partnership
Stuart Hoyle has worked at the Environment Agency for eight years and has been a Waste Crime Engagement Specialist since the role was created in 2019. Here he highlights the panel session on 13 September by the Waste Crime Engagement …
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GOV.UK Pay product strategy and upcoming features
GOV.UK Pay has ambitious plans for the next few years. Read on to find out what we're doing to deliver our vision and meet more user needs.
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Skilled: How Civil Service Languages Network (CSLN) is improving language capability
The Civil Service Languages Network (CSLN) aims to improve language capability across government, equipping colleagues with the necessary skills and ambition to achieve the shared goals of A Modern Civil Service. The CSLN is a vibrant community of over …
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Ensuring Safety and Compliance: Fines Imposed for Airfield Road Misuse in Gibraltar
In recent weeks, the Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) have taken a proactive stance to ensure the safety and security of all individuals along Winston Churchill Avenue (the road leading to the airfield). Several instances where vehicles have come onto the …
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Government response to BBC reporting on storm overflows
Today, we are responding to BBC coverage on storm overflows
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Windrush Schemes Factsheet – July 2023
We are determined to put right the terrible injustices faced by some people from the Windrush generation and the wider Commonwealth, which happened under successive governments. The Windrush Scheme ensures members of the Windrush generation can get the documentation they need to …
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“An innovative and useful tool” – the Digital Registration Service at work
A user-friendly, effective safeguard that also saves time: HCR Law’s experience of the Digital Registration Service.
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Should it stay or should it go? Steel safeguard extension review
The TRA has initiated a steel safeguard extension review. This will be the first extension review to be conducted under the UK’s trade remedies regime. The purpose of this review is to make a recommendation to government whether the current …
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Social work's vital role in disaster situations
I am delighted to support the launch of a free online training course for social work in disaster situations. Maris Stratulis, National Director, BASW England, and Joe Hanley, lecturer and researcher in social work with the Open University, have kindly drafted this week’s blog promoting this excellent course, so please read it and consider signing …
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Women in Tech: closing the gender gap in DDaT DBT
DBT DDaT pave the way to closing the gender gap after being nominated for the Women in Tech Employer Awards.
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Fast : Efficient : Resilient – land registration fit for one of the world’s most valuable property markets
How HM Land Registry is automating more services to build a brighter future.
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Protecting hedgerows: consultation closes soon
In June, we launched a consultation on hedgerow protections in England. With 2 weeks to go before the consultation closes, I wanted to remind you that there’s still time for you to help shape future regulations so that they work for wildlife, the environment and farmers.
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Accessing Wegovy for weight loss: Everything you need to know
Semaglutide (Wegovy) launched in the UK on 4 September and is available on the NHS as an option for weight management in line with NICE guidance, alongside a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity. Patients are eligible for treatment within …
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School inspection update September 2023 - changes to how we inspect schools
With pupils and teachers now returning to school for a new academic year, this blog gives an overview of some of the recent changes to the school inspection handbook and the way we inspect schools. In June 2023, we committed …
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DBT – SEO Policy and Capability Adviser in Chief Scientific Adviser’s Office
Summary The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) are recruiting for a new SEO Policy and Capability Adviser in the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) team. This role presents an exciting opportunity within the newly formed DBT, to work closely with …
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Consequence scanning: How to mitigate risks in your service
A step by step of how designers on the GOV.UK Forms team used consequence scanning to help their team understand the risks in their service and how to address them.
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Education Secretary: My first duty is to protect the safety of pupils
This article by Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was first published in The Sun on 3 September 2023. I understand how important the start of each school year is for families across this country. So no one should be under any …
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RAAC in the NHS - media fact sheet
*Updated on 29 February 2024* This fact sheet sets out our position on the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in the NHS. RAAC is a lightweight form of precast concrete, frequently used in public sector buildings in the …
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Spotlight: the prison officer online assessment centre
Applying to be a prison officer? Read this handy guide to our online assessment centre process so you know what to expect. The online assessment centre (OAC) is a key stage of the application process to be a prison officer. …
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Wendling Beck Environment Project – building financial and environmental resilience for farmers.
By Andy Slaney, Green Finance Specialist, Environment Agency The Wendling Beck Environment Project is a habitat creation, nature restoration and regenerative farming project, spanning almost 2,000 acres near Dereham in Norfolk, UK. The project is leading the way in transforming …
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What makes a service ‘Great’?
In last year’s roadmap for digital and data, government committed to getting 50 of the Top 75 services to a ‘great’ standard by 2025. Learn more about how CDDO are working with service teams across government to establish a common framework to baseline service performance.
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Oldbury wetland restoration project
The background of Magnox Oldbury site’s silt lagoons When Oldbury site was an operational power station, cooling water was needed and taken from the River Severn. However, silt from the river could accumulate in front of the cooling water inlets, …
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Our approach to inspecting the curriculum in alternative provision
Alternative provider (AP) settings provide education for pupils with complex needs that can’t typically be met in mainstream schools. APs rightly differ from mainstream schools – they serve different purposes and have different objectives. When we inspect an AP, we …
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Patient and public voice reps needed for blood spot task group project
The UK NSC's blood spot task group is looking for 2 patient and public voice representatives to support one of its core projects.
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Seeking a Chief of Staff to the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Business and Trade
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) are recruiting for a new Grade 6 Chief of Staff to the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA). This role presents an exciting opportunity within the newly formed DBT, to work closely with the CSA …
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Creating skills for the future at the NDA - Jacq Longrigg, Head of Leadership, Skills, and Talent
Jacq Longrigg, NDA group Head of Leadership, Skills and Talent joined the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in 2018 with an extensive knowledge and experience of the education and skills sector. Her role includes being the NDA representative on the National …
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What we’re doing to provide access to road fuel price data
We published the final report of our road fuel market study in July. The market study found that competition in the retail sector for petrol and diesel had weakened since 2019, meaning that drivers were paying more for road fuel. …
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Delivering the Government cloud first policy – what it looks like in practice at the ONS
Peter McKenzie-Baughan, Head of Cloud Services and Support, shares what the Government cloud first policy looks like in practice for us - how our cloud services are a constantly evolving and maturing capability within ONS, the approaches we take to ‘keeping the lights on’ and how it's underpinned by collaborative and creative thinking.
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Introducing students to a career in Digital, Data and Technology
A team from DBT shared their DDaT career advice and experiences with students at Exeter college.
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'Nature can sit alongside agriculture': a Landscape Recovery project spotlight
The North Norfolk: Wilder, Wetter, Better for Nature project is part of the first round of Landscape Recovery. Alongside sustainable food production, the project aims to create new habitats for nature, restore rivers and boost biodiversity on the Holkham Estate. We visited the team to see how the project will work in practice.
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The Social Security Advisory Committee is so important to us all
When I was first approached to consider applying for a place on the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC), I had never even heard of it. Nonetheless, I quickly found myself wanting to know more because of my practical experience of …
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An introduction to community interest companies
The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies decides whether an organisation is eligible to become, or continue to be, a community interest company. Operational case manager, Lloyd, tells us about his role within the team.
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OFSI uses disclosure power for first time
The critical role that financial sanctions have played in the international coalition’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further demonstrated what a crucially important tool they are for the UK to protect its national security and financial integrity. As …
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Helping driving instructors learn about the top driving test faults
Amanda Lane, Head of Driver Testing and Training Policy, recaps what was covered during a recent webinar for driving instructors about the top 10 faults made during driving tests, and looks at techniques you can use to explore your pupils' thoughts, feelings and beliefs about them.
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Congratulations to The James Hutton Institute on their Sustainable Development Award
Tucked away in Scotland’s northeast, The James Hutton Institute has for a long time been something of a hidden gem. It is one of the UK’s biggest independent research centres, with more than 500 scientists and support staff, combining interdisciplinary …
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What I learnt leading empowered teams at scale in Teacher Services
Teacher Services is one of DfE’s largest digital portfolios. We have long-lived service teams that are empowered to decide how to achieve their objectives. We’ve grown quickly and have been changing how we work together as we scale. We’re moving from building great services as individual teams, to making decisions about the journey for teachers …
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The new in-person identity check for GOV.UK One Login
Find out about in-person identity checks for GOV.UK One Login.