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Stannah delivers full lift replacement for contemporary public sector building

Endeavour House

Endeavour House, in Ipswich, Suffolk, has undergone a significant lift replacement, with the installation of five Stannah lifts designed to improve performance, reliability and overall user experience.

Home to a mix of municipal offices and meeting rooms, the five-storey public building serves as a meeting point for Suffolk County Council,

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Highland advisory board welcomes a new chair and a new member

Nicola Haywood-Cleverly takes up the reins at the expert panel, as Ben Argo brings a fresh perspective to the group that advises on health tech growth

The appointments come as Highland expands its Elevate showcase initiative as the NHS accelerates the shift from analogue to digital

The Highland advisory board has

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Stand up and be counted for public safety, says Fire Aware

Gavin Skelly

Growing fire safety leader Fire Aware is challenging those responsible for upholding best practice across multiple sectors – stand up and be counted for the public.

Fire Aware CEO Gavin Skelly says those who adopt the highest standards of best practice should be proud of their stance as opposed to

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Community event offered EV drivers complimentary charging while showcasing the borough’s growing rapid and ultra-rapid network 

Believ team on hand at Tower Hamlets

Electric vehicle (EV) charge point operator (CPO) Believ marked World EV Day on the 9th September by offering free EV charging and information at Newby Place in Tower Hamlets to help showcase the benefits of transitioning to EVs. From 10am to 4pm, Believ engaged with the

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The border already knows more. Now travellers can do less

SITA launches SITA Border Flow Lane, a new border processing solution that turns years of progress in traveller data and intelligence into a new border experience

The future of border control no longer has to happen at the border. SITA today launched SITA Border Flow Lane, a new border processing solution that

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Fire Aware: Commit to a moral culture for safety

Growing fire safety leader Fire Aware says the only way to achieve cultural change is for organisations large and small to recognise that the public are relying on their moral approach for their safety.

Fire Aware CEO Gavin Skelly says the duty holders in multiple sectors affected by fire safety legislation should

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Believ begins delivery of its largest rapid and ultra-rapid EV charge point rollout in Tower Hamlets to support Council’s sustainable transport commitment

The first 17 chargers are now live in Electric Vehicle (EV) charge point operator (CPO) Believ and Tower Hamlets Council’s rollout of more than 70 chargers across 35 sites in the borough. 

The rollout is Believ’s largest rapid and ultra rapid charging deployment to date and will support residents and commuters travelling through the

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New White Paper Reveals Nearly Half of Organizations Are Practicing ‘Selective’ Integration in Service Management

Organizations are moving beyond traditional models to build more agile, intelligent and cost-effective IT ecosystems.

Scopism and Unisys (NYSE: UIS) have released a new white paper, “The Global Rise of Selective Service Integration: Why the Service Integration and Management Model is Evolving.” The paper highlights an emerging trend: organizations are strategically

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Digital Reputation Is Becoming Part of Education: Why the Sector Must Prepare Students for a Future of Online Due Diligence

Susie Thomson

Education has always evolved to prepare young people for the world they will enter. Today, that world is increasingly digital, and with it comes a new reality: a

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The Death of the Perimeter: How ShinyHunters and Zero-Day SaaS Exploits Weaponised the Cloud Supply Chain

By Graham Jarvis – Freelance Business and Technology Journalist

Graham Jarvis

One thing is worth remembering: nobody is immune to either fraud or data breaches. Each and every one of us – including our organisations – could be successfully cyber-attacked; and this is exactly what happened recently in late May and early

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The Bar has Been Raised – but are public sector organisations ready to meet it?

By Matt Horne, Director of Intelligence and Investigations, Clue Software

Matt Horne

The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 hands the PSFA significant new powers – to investigate, levy civil penalties and recover money on behalf of public authorities. It is the most significant escalation in public sector counter-fraud enforcement

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PUBLIC TRUST IN HEALTH INNOVATION IS SHAPED MORE BY MINDSET THAN DEMOGRAPHICS, DNV RESEARCH FINDS

Geir Fuglerud

Public trust in health innovation may be less predictable than healthcare organizations assume, according to new research from DNV, the independent assurance and certification provider.

A global survey of 12,500 people across 17 countries found that mindset is a stronger indicator of trust than traditional demographic factors such as

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Synectics’ Synergy Achieves NPSA CAPSS Certification

Strengthening Cyber Assurance for Critical Infrastructure

Synectics has announced that its Synergy security and surveillance platform has been awarded Cyber Assurance of Physical Security Systems (CAPSS) certification from the UK National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), confirming that it meets the Government’s stringent cyber security standards.

The CAPSS certification independently verifies Synergy’s cyber resilience,

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How Staffordshire and Wolverhampton are creating the UK’s next green growth zone

The impact of international events continues to be felt on local, national, and global economies, and residents and businesses need to be supported through challenging times.

To ensure that a more resilient, more dynamic and more productive economy is delivered, local authorities and Government must put foundations for future growth in place

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Albion Water appoints new Director of Business Development

Andy Holland

Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in 1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.

Andy brings with him more than two decades of technical and commercial experience in water

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A damp social home with a solar panel is still a damp home

By Rory Evans, regional director, LHC Midlands and South East 

A solar panel can cut a bill. But what it can’t do is dry a wall, repair a roof or make a damp home healthy.

That is the tension social landlords face as they respond to the latest Government announcement on the

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Let’s work at this together, says Fire Aware

Growing fire safety organisation Fire Aware has reminded the public sector fire safety industry – “We’re all in this together so let’s collaborate.”

Fire Aware CEO Gavin Skelly gave the reminder of the importance of working closely in the supply chains in the post-Grenfell era as the legal process in the aftermath

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East Riding of Yorkshire Council Selects Unit4 ERPx and FP&A to Underpin Finance for the Future Transformation Programme

Embridge Consulting to replace outdated legacy applications with simplified redesign of financial operating model for reduced complexity and improved transparency

Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations, today announced that East Riding of Yorkshire Council will move to Unit4 ERPx, its next-generation, cloud-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Together with

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One in four council professionals not confident their authority will be viable on ‘Vesting Day’, poll reveals

ICS.AI poll reveals concerns over council viability and service disruption ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

Martin Neale

Council professionals involved in Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) are concerned about the impact of the programme on service delivery and the long-term viability of new authorities, according to polling conducted by public sector AI specialist

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When Contractor Conduct Becomes a Council Responsibility

Councils Cannot Outsource Accountability: The Contractor Screening Lessons from Harrow

Susie Thomson

By Susie Thomson, Chair Elect of the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) and former founder of Security Watchdog

The Harrow Council enforcement incident that has recently attracted national media attention is deeply concerning, not only because of the behaviour captured

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