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Building Carer Friendly Communities: Celebrating Unpaid Carers and Young Carers During Carers Week 2026
Carers are at the heart of our communities.
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How Mavis Technologies is using intellectual property to build recognition and trust
We spoke to CEO and founder David Sikharulidze of Mavis Technology about the role intellectual property (IP) has played in protecting his innovation while also building a strong brand that people can recognise and trust.
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What does it really mean to be a designer in Justice Digital Data and Science?
The job title only tells you so much. An interaction designer or service designer might have spent years working across healthcare, financial services or local government before joining us. They bring skills, instincts and experience that a job title simply cannot capture. …
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Planning changes to safeguard schools and save youth centres
This week we launched a new consultation proposing a package of amendments to permitted development rights (PDRs). PDRs are a national grant of planning permission that allows specific building works or change of property use to happen without having to …
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What we learned from the Prime Minister’s AI Exemplars programme – and how it is shaping the next phase
Find out how the first 10 months of the AI Exemplars programme has gone.
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Social Mobility Day - Why Stories Matter!
Today, 11th June, marks Social Mobility Day, a vital opportunity to reflect on how we can break down barriers to opportunity and ensure that a person’s background does not dictate their future. This year’s national theme is ‘Stories Matter’ and …
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Food Fact Check: What happens during a food recall?
Food Fact Check: Jodie Wild, Head of Incidents answers questions about food incidents and recalls.
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The SFI26 budget
Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle has confirmed a £240 million budget for new Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements. In this post, we explain how the funding will be allocated, what it means for Window 1 and Window 2 applicants, and where you can find information to help you prepare for the scheme opening later this month.
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Breaking barriers: HMCTS and Social Mobility
In this episode, a Delivery Director shares their journey to senior leadership and outlines a strategy to make careers in the justice system accessible to all. Social mobility ambassadors then share their outreach experiences and the impact of this work.
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Celebrating the launch of our first National River Walk – join our webinars on how to apply to deliver our next four river walks
Rivers are at the heart of many of our towns, cities and countryside landscapes. They shape the places we live, support wildlife, and offer people somewhere to walk, wheel, cycle, volunteer, spend time with family, and connect with nature close to home. …
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Uplift to 1.0 trust framework: pathways and timelines
Yesterday, we published the final release of version 1.0 of the UK digital verification services trust framework. The 1.0 version will come into force from 1 September 2026, or from the date at least one conformity assessment body (CAB) is …
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Final release of the 1.0 trust framework: what does it mean for you?
Yesterday, we published the final 1.0 version of the UK digital verification services trust framework on GOV.UK. The publication is accompanied by final versions of the 1.0 supporting documents, as well as the 1.0 supplementary codes for digital right to work, …
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InspecVision: A Double Royal Recognition for International Trade
Northern Ireland-based InspecVision, a leading manufacturer of precision 2D and 3D measurement systems, is among a select group of UK businesses to have received both a Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade (2021) and a King's Award for Enterprise …
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Bridging the Generational AI gap
DBT's Intergeneration network aims to promote the benefits of a multigenerational workplace and raise awareness of age-related issues in the workplace. This post shares insights from the "Bridging the generational AI gap" panel event
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UK NSC 2026 call for topics to open on 1 July
The UK National Screening Committee's 2026 call for new screening topics will open on 1 July and close on 30 September.
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NHSBSA Overseas Healthcare Cost Recovery Beta Reassessment
Read about the beta reassessment on overseas healthcare cost recovery from NHSBSA
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Heat, health and inequality
As the UK experiences more extreme heat events, the associated health risks are becoming more evident. Actuary Will Stobbs explores how rising temperatures interact with existing social and economic inequalities, drawing on GAD analysis to show where high heat exposure and deprivation overlap across England's neighbourhoods.
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Advancing AI Regulation in Healthcare: Insights from AI Airlock Phase 2
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, offering new opportunities to improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical decision-making, and increase system efficiency. At the same time, it presents complex regulatory challenges that existing frameworks were not specifically designed …
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Express Merchants: From Portadown to the Global Stage
Express Merchants’ recognition as the only Northern Ireland recipient of The King’s Award for Enterprise 2026 is a remarkable achievement — and a powerful reflection of the strength of innovation across the region. Based in Portadown, the company has built …
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Collaboration and confidence in a changing food system
It was a pleasure to welcome parliamentarians, partners and friends of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to the House of Commons last week for our annual parliamentary reception, held to mark World Food Safety Day. These events are always a …
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Dartmoor Ponies – Clarification of Natural England's Role and Position
Recent reporting on Natural England's role and position on Dartmoor ponies has contained several inaccuracies, including that Natural England has recommended a cull of Dartmoor ponies, which is false. We have also seen similar reporting on Exmoor ponies, which is …
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Updating the skills content designers need in government
The content design skills in the Digital and Data Capability Framework were updated at the end of May. This post sets out what's changed and why, and how members of the content community came together to work on it.
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Coverage of measures to back pubs ahead of the World Cup
On Saturday, (6 June), the government announced that football fans will be able to roar on the Three Lions at the World Cup this summer with extended opening hours for pubs – and called on local councils not to block …
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A new avoidable requisitions dataset is now available
Helping firms spot common issues, making it easy to understand where delays are happening and focus on practical improvements.
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Launching GOV.UK's new content and publishing guidance
We’ve overhauled the GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Find out what’s changed, why this is a major improvement for government publishers, and what we learned from testing.
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Nannies: what you need to know
This blog explains what it means to be an Ofsted registered nanny. We talk about how to register, the requirements you need to follow and how and when you may be inspected. What is a nanny? The Department for Education …
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Explainer: Everything you need to know about the Democratic Engagement Fund
🌟Votes at 16 are coming – and the Government is investing £2.5 million to support people to engage with democracy, including making sure young people are ready. 🤝The new Democratic Engagement Fund will support projects helping to ensure that when …
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Building Carer Friendly Communities and Workplaces
Every day, millions of unpaid carers quietly make an extraordinary difference in the lives of others. Whether supporting a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend or neighbour, carers dedicate their time, energy, patience and compassion to helping those they love live …
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UK NSC consults on screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden cardiac death in young people
The UK NSC is consulting on evidence relating to screening for conditions that can cause sudden cardiac death in young people.
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Mapping the seabed together: inside the first leg of the CSM2026 survey
Joseph Pearce, Lead Geospatial Specialist – Geodesy and PNT, UKHO, shares insights from onboard the first leg of the ‘CSM2026’ survey – a collaborative seabed mapping survey, coordinated by the UK Centre for Seabed Mapping (UK CSM). Taking place off …
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Trees on the farm: the rise of agroforestry in Herefordshire
Alexander Bentley, Agroforestry Woodland Officer for the Forestry Commission in the North West and West Midlands Area, talks about the resurgence of agroforestry in Herefordshire – enabling farmers to diversify and enhance their outputs.
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How do you catch genital herpes and is there a cure?
Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It is a common cause of genital sores in England.
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Using artificial intelligence to improve justice services
In this blog, Gary O’Reilly explains how HMCTS is taking a careful and responsible approach to adopting artificial intelligence, and how it is being used to support staff and improve justice services.
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York Central visit, Mayoral Council meeting and Scarborough Pride in Place
On Thursday 4 June, Communities Secretary Steve Reed joined the Prime Minister for a visit to York Central, a major development site in the heart of the city that is set to become one of the largest city centre regeneration …
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Move fast, then fix things – what we learned building Register early career teachers
We recently released the Register early career teachers service after over two years of hard work redesigning, remodelling and replacing its predecessor. The old service funded training for over 200,000 early career teachers and mentors. It was built in six …
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Experts at Hand: Everything you need to know
We're making it easier for children to get specialist support in schools, early years and post-16 settings. A new offer called Experts at Hand will bring specialists into schools, early years and post-16 education settings, so children can get help earlier, without families having to fight for support or wait for a diagnosis. …
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Is your school's money working as hard as it should?
Chris McGunnigle, DfE Banking Team Lead, returns with an update to his November 2025 blog. New tools are live, real results are coming in, and the question every school should be asking their bank has never been more important. Please …
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Future-proofing our woodlands and forests against climate change
David White, Woodland and Climate Change Adaptation Adviser at the Forestry Commission, shares key guidance from the UK Forestry Standard to help you improve woodland resilience against climate change.
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Biodiversity Net Gain for NSIPs: gain statements laid and guidance published
We have reached a significant milestone in implementing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). Earlier this week the final biodiversity gain statements were formally laid in Parliament and are now available on GOV.UK. These statements are central to applying BNG to the NSIP regime and accompany the two statutory instruments in …
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Data maturity: the foundation for AI ready public sector data
Good AI starts with good data. We partnered with The National Archives to explore how data maturity can prepare legal data for AI use. Here's what we found.