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Abbot’s Way school
With schools increasingly relying on digital technologies and cloud-based storage and services to plan and teach the curriculum as well as to communicate with parents and carers, fast, reliable internet access is now essential in education.
For community focused ISP Truespeed, pledging free ultrafast broadband for life to schools passed
Continue reading Truespeed gives Somerset schools free ultrafast full fibre broadband boost
This afternoon, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and CDL Michael Gove spoke to 250 business leaders on preparing for the end of the transition period.
The Prime Minister thanked businesses for the huge efforts they have made so far this year, both to help with the coronavirus pandemic and to prepare for the end of the
Continue reading Prime Minister Boris Johnson and CDL Michael Gove spoke to 250 business leaders this afternoon
Data loggers have highlighted more than £1.5 million of potential additional water costs for organisations this year, after highlighting issues including leaks at sites, new figures show.*
This included:
One of the largest universities in the UK had leaks on two sites – which were losing an estimated 100 cubic metres (100,000 litres) of water
Continue reading Data delivers to prevent added water costs for public sector sites and businesses
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
The U.K. public sector has never been more digital than it is now, and an increasing use of applications—both within organisations and for use by the general public—have allowed the sector to work more efficiently and provide better services. But, the more
Continue reading Keeping Apps on Track: The Business Case for Application Performance Management
Stuart Hardisty
By Stuart Hardisty
Yesterday I spoke at the Westminster Briefing event on Planning Policy Reforms Under the New Government www.westminster-briefing.com/Planning_Under_The_New_Government around the impacts of such reform on employment land, an issue I am firmly embedded in.
Three years ago I wrote a blog post setting out a series of risk factors
Continue reading The impacts of planning reform on employment land
Specialist social value agency, Samtaler, has appointed entrepreneur and former Vice Chair of Social Enterprise Scotland, Zahra Hedges, as its new director of operations.
The Scottish-based boutique agency has been experiencing a period of rapid growth in 2020 and has a solid roster of clients including Europe’s leading energy company, Vattenfall, as well as several
Continue reading Social value success: Scottish agency set to expand with new appointment
Bristow & Sutor, one of the UK’s leading players specialising in debt recovery, are meeting with more people now than before the coronavirus pandemic began. Despite not currently entering premises, contact rates have increased by 15% and Enforcement Agent (EA) payment results have shown an increase of 24%. The company believes this proves the majority
Continue reading Bristow & Sutor celebrate success of returning to enforcement
Following a highly competitive procurement process, last week The Retail Energy Code Company (RECCo) announced the appointment of three new service providers to carry out the Code Manager function for the Retail Energy Code. RECCo is the corporate vehicle for ensuring the proper, effective, and efficient implementation and ongoing management of the Retail Energy Code
Continue reading RECCo announces Code Manager bid partners for delivery of consumer-focused approach to UK retail energy
InfoSaaS and UKCloud have signed a partnership agreement that will see InfoSaaS’s data security, risk management and compliance software solutions made available to UKCloud’s customers and partners, free of charge for the an initial six month period.
UKCloud’s customers and partners can now access InfoSaaS’s solutions supporting data security, risk management and general business compliance
Continue reading InfoSaaS to make its solutions available free of charge to UKCloud customers in partnership agreement
Pothole damage on our roads
Traffic accidents, potholes, road deterioration, trip hazards on pavements and in car parks, There seems to be an epidemic happening all around us affecting every city, town, village and the connecting roads in between. Why is this happening? What can we realistically do about it?
What can be
Continue reading #SayNOtoRockSalt #SayYEStoEcoGrit
Former Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey QPM
Former Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Keith Povey QPM, is to Chair the Taming Aggression Group (T.A.G).
A newly formed technical think tank, T.A.G aims to investigate the use of new technologies that can be adapted to deter instances of violence and criminal disorder
Continue reading Sir Keith Povey QPM appointed Chairman of T.A.G
A Downing Street spokesperson has told GPSJ:
“The Prime Minister spoke to Yoshihide Suga this morning to congratulate him on his recent appointment as Prime Minister of Japan.
“The leaders discussed the importance of the UK-Japan relationship across economic cooperation, security and defence. They resolved to work together closely to tackle shared challenges such as
Continue reading Prime Minister and Prime Minister Suga welcome recent agreement on UK-Japan free trade
Blocser believes cards still have a hold
Ambitious Danish fintech Blocser has partnered with top UK card manufacturer allpay.cards with designs on the fast-growing gig economy.
Blocser has pinned their Butterfly Card to one of its biggest market moves yet – the UK offer to the near 5million now estimated as working in
Continue reading allpay and Blocser confirm card contract for fast-growing UK gig economy
This year, Women’s Equality Day celebrated its hundredth milestone, celebrating the date of which women in the US gained the right to vote for the very first time. Since 1920, the world has dramatically changed for women in every sector, from making strides in their education and in their work, to winning more nobel prizes
Continue reading Women’s Equality Day 2020: Let’s hear it for the girls!
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick today unveiled a new £12 million boost for affordable homes, in a bid to make it easier for people to get on the housing ladder. The programme represents the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade.
Commenting on the measures, Peter Hogg, UK Cities Director at Arcadis,
Continue reading Affordable homes: Comment from Arcadis
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
As the second half of the year gets well underway, and lockdown restrictions generally continue to ease, one of the main topics of concern is a “second wave” of COVID-19 potentially hitting the U.K. in the coming weeks or months. With some
Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Prepare Your IT to Ride the “Second Wave”
Following an initial proof of concept phase, Diegesis Limited, an independent business technology and IT systems integration company, has been awarded a managed services contract by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) under the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 4 framework. Under the two-year agreement, Diegesis will support and maintain ONS’s existing Ingres/Actian-X systems written in
Continue reading Diegesis secures a two-year managed services agreement with the Office for National Statistics
Wellspace announce 12 month partnership to provide digital wellbeing services to Guys and St Thomas Charity
Wellspace will be providing digital services for 12 months to Guy’s and St Thomas Charity as part of their staff health and wellbeing programme.
Guys and St Thomas Charity is an independent urban health foundation. They work with Guy’s
Continue reading Digital Wellbeing Initiative For Guys and St Thomas Charity
TWO THIRDS of the public think that vital public services, such as social care, are put at risk when people who can pay their council tax do not, according to a new YouGov survey.
Already hundreds of millions go unpaid every year and over 80% of the public think that this would continue or get
Continue reading Public backs debt enforcement to support vital public services – survey
Thousands of SMEs across Scotland are set to benefit from vital free support after the Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop announced that it was trebling funding for msp
The £1.5m of funding is considered a critical lifeline for helping many businesses to overcome the exceptional challenges brought about by COVID-19.
Now in its fifth year, DigitalBoost
Continue reading Thousands of Scotland SMEs to benefit from free DigitalBoost support thanks to treble funding boost
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