WIREDGOV NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Editor’s choice of ICT items of note:

RUSI Research Fellow Jamie MacColl joins Cyber Monitoring Centre Committee

Government calls for views on draft Code of Practice on cyber security governance

Business leaders urged to toughen up cyber attack protections

Response from APCC chair to NPCC police integrity screening data

Government launches new AI Opportunity Forum

Use of artificial intelligence in education delivery and assessment

Serious sex offender who used false identities to blackmail women and children online jailed

CTSI responds to Government’s consultation response to make shopping online safer for UK consumers

 
Active Wellbeing 2024 – 1-29 February

Active Wellbeing is back with a brand-new challenge to encourage everyone to be active whether you’re at the beginning of your journey and taking those first steps to being involved or need some extra motivation to keep going on your fitness journey, Active Wellbeing is here to support you. 

This February, join us for a month-long Around-the-World challenge. With plenty of chances to win prizes for your team and yourself. Whether you walk, run, cycle, swim or get outside in the garden, every bit of activity counts! You can create a team, invite your colleagues and friends, or join a ready-made group. It’s that easy to get involved.

Sign up today, and don’t forget to join us for our celebration week from 22 January, with events, funding, prizes and more to prepare you for the challenge starting 1 February.

To learn more and sign up visit Activewellbeing.me.uk #AW24

 
Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note:

Public Health Wales voices support for Graduated Driver Licensing

First patients with inherited blood disorders to get world-first NHS test to curb transfusion side effects

Record number of nurses and midwives working in NHS

NHS launches catch up campaign for missed MMR vaccines

NHS delivers on ambition of 5,000 more permanent beds

Thousands more young people urged to take up HPV vaccine to meet NHS cervical cancer elimination goal

500,000 women benefit from cheaper hormone replacement therapy

NHS Confederation responds to data showing more than 100,000 children have been hospitalised with tooth decay

NHS Confederation responds to result of BMA consultant pay ballot

NHS Confederation - Winter pressures on NHS services continue to be unrelenting

 
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note:

Sewer power to heat homes and businesses and help keep bills low after government backing

Business and tech heavyweights to boost productivity through AI

China’s economy is becoming a drag on global growth

January sales setback leaves retailers downbeat on sector's prospects - CBI Distributive Trends Survey

 
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note:

Solidarity with unions in Argentina

Sustaining Sustainability – announcing our updated Carbon Reduction Plan

Rise in international visits

Joint statement on strikes against Houthi military targets: 22 January 2024

PM meeting with the Prime Minister of Belgium: 23 January 2024

YPO launches new EdTech platform at BETT 2024

The State of the State 2024

Good Food Nation plans published

CBI Wales appoints new Chair

Committees publish plans for future scrutiny of strategic export controls

 
SME Supplier Locator update...

With the officially stated target and ongoing drive for SME’s to receive £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts, UK public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase.

Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers.

Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:

Click here to find out more.

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New ICO campaign promotes sharing data to safeguard children
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reprimanded for “serious, harmful” data breach

ICO publishes updated Commissioner’s Opinion on age assurance for the Children’s code

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