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4 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
Salford City Council is looking to recruit a “visionary leader” to become the authority’s head of AI and data. The post, which offers a salary of between £72,191 and £79,112, comes with a remit to “lead the design and delivery of Salford’s enterprise-wide AI and data strategy”, according to the job advert.
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4 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
The government will build commercial skills in government and make it easier for civil servants to take temporary placements in the private sector as part of a 10-year industrial strategy which seeks to deliver a big boost to the tech sector and Whitehall’s own use of digital data.
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4 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
As HM Revenue and Customs reveals the agreement of a new £200m-plus deal with Fujitsu, government has asserted its commitment to “quickly and securely remove” the vendor’s tech across Whitehall. The tax department has agreed the contract as a contingency measure while it progresses longer-term plans to vacate three datacentres operated by the Japanese IT giant. Over the past two decades, HMRC has spent billions of pounds with long-term supplier Fujitsu.
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4 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
After taking over responsibility for cross-public sector cyber issues, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will adopt a “more interventionist operating model”. Formerly housed in the Cabinet Office, prime minister Keir Starmer announced earlier this month that the remit of leading government’s work on cybersecurity across Whitehall and the broader public sector would be moved to the Government Digital Service.
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4 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
Government is seeking to recruit a new senior digital leader to help pave the way for plans to lower the UK voting age to 16. Before being voted into power last summer, Labour’s manifesto pledged to allow the UK’s 1.5 million 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections.
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5 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
The Department for Work and Pensions is seeking a commercial partner to provide additional delivery and change-management expertise to the rollout of the £2.5bn Synergy shared services scheme.
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5 days ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
Government’s will appoint a permanent cross-Whitehall chief digital officer via an open competitive recruitment process, a minister has said. The GCDO position provides not only the figurehead for digital and data operations across government, but also serves as the executive leader of the Government Digital Service.
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1 week ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
HM Revenue and Customs is to invest in technology, data systems and artificial intelligence to support plans to collect more than half a billion pounds in tax from the UK’s wealthiest individuals in the next few years. In a recent evidence session appearing before parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, senior officials from the tax department told MPs about efforts being taken to close an estimated £1.9bn gap in revenue collected from the country’s 850,000 wealthiest taxpayers.
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1 week ago | 
publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall
Oxford City Council has revealed that cyberattackers are believed to have gained access to the personal information of people who worked on elections administered by the authority over a period of more than 20 years. In a public statement yesterday, the council announced that it was “subject to a cybersecurity incident over the weekend of 7/8 June”.
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1 week ago | 
publictechnology.net | Jim Dunton |Sam Trendall
The Cabinet Office has been allocated £50m to help it “increase workforce productivity” across the civil service as part of the Spending Review 2025 settlement. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a £3.25bn “Transformation Fund” at March’s Spring Statement. While selected components were flagged at the time – such as match-funding for civil-service exit payments – a full breakdown of the total only emerged at last week’s Spending Review.
