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Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has supported the recommendations of a new report into civil service reform. Credit: Policy Exchange/Flickr The renewal of UK permanent secretaries’ contracts should be based upon their performance against goals set out by ministers, a think tank has advised in a report backed by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove. The recommendation was included in a report published on Monday by Policy Exchange, a centre-right think tank with links to the governing Con...

Britain’s Government Digital Service sets out new three year strategy Read later Audio version Summary: The Government Digital Service (GDS) has said that it is no longer in start-up mode and has cited what it won’t be focusing on. (Image sourced via GDS website) Britains recently appointed CEO of the Government Digital Service (GDS) has unveiled the central Whitehall organizations latest strategy, covering the period 2021 to 2024. Tom Read believes that given GDSs position at the center ...

Topics The Government Digital Service (GDS) will focus on joining up services, identities and data over the next three years, its chief executive Tom Read has said. In a blog on GDS’s strategy from 2021 to 2024, Read outlined five goals for the service with three concerned with joining up. One is to set up a single digital identity system covering all departments that will learn from the experience of GOV.UK Verify, which was recently extended to April 2023. Read said this identity system ha...

Digital Government From: 13 May 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Good morning everyone, and many thanks to Govnet for inviting me here today and giving me the opportunity to share the plans and priorities for the Digital, Data and Technology Function for the coming year, led by the Central Digital and Data Office. The theme of the next two days is enhancing government to citizen engagement through the digital evolution, and there is so much to talk about as alway...

Scores of GDS staff moved to new Central Digital and Data Office Responsibility for controls and standards has been taken on by new entity The east London headquarters of GDS and CDDO. Credit: Derwent London 13 May 2021 In the last month, scores of staff from the Government Digital Service have moved over to the newly established Central Digital and Data Office, which has taken on a range of standards and controls functions that were previously the remit of GDS. CDDO, which is led by former Ho...

Crystal clear: Sir Ian Diamond on using data to profile the pandemic By Matt Ross on 11/05/2021 Diamond briefs the public at a daily COVID-19 press conference last year: his agency’s data has helped shape policies and communications during the pandemic. Credit: Pippa Fowles/Number 10 Downing Street/Flickr. The UK civil service has transformed its data operations during the pandemic, says Office for National Statistics chief Professor Sir Ian Diamond – web-scraping, integrating datasets, and...

Better integration could save government £850k per digital service, minister claims Work to ensure tasks are not replicated across different tools could deliver significant financial benefits Photo: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 07 May 2021 Work to better integrate digital services could save government as much as £850,000 of spending on each one, a minister has claimed. A key ambition of government’s digital transformation work in recent years has been to eliminate duplicati...

UK’s digital leaders set out goals on data and skills By Adam Branson on 04/05/2021 The UK’s new central digital teams are to accelerate their work on digital skills throughout the workforce. Credit: Rob Thom/UK CivilService / Flickr The UK’s new central digital teams are to accelerate their work on data management across government, career development within the profession and digital skills throughout the workforce, the civil service’s digital leaders explained at an event last Friday...

Government digital chiefs outline plans for CDDO and GDS Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read talk about establishing a digital, data and technology sub-board, plans to hire a chief technology officer and a chief data officer, and a five-year plan for the Government Digital Service Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 May 2021 14:29 Paul Willmott, chairman of the government’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), is in the process of creating a digital, data and ...

The Government is planning to create a sub-board for digital, data and technology within the Civil Service Board. Joanna Davinson, executive director of the recently created Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) within the Cabinet Office, referred to the plan during an online presentation organised by the Institute for Government Thinktank. She said it will work with the CDDO to boost the efforts around central government to bring data, policy and operations together. “We need to get a lot b...