Sam Trendall

5 days ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

The Government Digital Service has awarded a pair of multimillion contracts to provide cybersecurity and technical architecture services for the GOV.UK One Login programme – as the project to deliver the new sign-in tool begins work to reattain the system’s recently lost formal trust certification, PublicTechnology can reveal.

6 days ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

The Information Commissioner’s Office has hit Greater Manchester Police with a formal reprimand over “serious shortcomings” in how the force handles CCTV. The official rebuke relates to footage taken during a 48-hour period in February 2021 in which a person was held in custody. The Professional Standards Directorate of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) subsequently asked that the force retain this recording beyond the standard storage period of 90 days.

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

As the Legal Aid Agency continues to recover from a data breach that compromised significant amounts of citizens’ personal data, a minister has claimed that the attack was made possible by fragile IT systems resulting from “long years of neglect”. The LAA announced earlier this month that it had discovered a successful hack of its online services on 23 April.

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

North Yorkshire Council is offering a £100,000-plus salary for a new senior manager to oversee the “largest transformation programme local government” in the area has ever been through. The vacant role as assistant director of transformation comes with a responsibility for directly managing five other leaders, including the heads of: business analysis; service design and digital adoption; data and insight; transformation portfolio management; and projects and programmes.

1 week ago | civilserviceworld.com | Cristina Lago |Sam Trendall

An employment tribunal has questioned whether “anything is being done” to assist disabled applicants enrolled in a “blind” reserve list within the Home Office’s recruitment system. The tribunal noted that a disabled employee under the Equality Act 2010 “at the very least […] ought to be given support in a potentially rather opaque recruitment process”.