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What to expect from the Forestry Commission at The Game Fair 2019
Where to find us at The Game Fair this year and what we'll be talking about
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Why well-meaning ideas can have unintended consequences
Jane Devine, Senior User Researcher, explains why doing a discovery is important for both government and users
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Telegraph: The Environment Secretary on government reforms to boost recycling
A look into The Telegraph's ‘Zero Waste’ campaign.
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Celebrating the Tree Oscars
Find out who the winners of the 11th annual London Tree and Woodland Awards are.
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What is understood by 'deletion of a non-significant parameter'?
The Variation Classification guidelines list approximately 350 different types of variation change codes and classification sub-categories. These variations fall under three possible procedure types: TIA, TIB or TII and cover the active substance and finished product, devices and safety, efficacy, …
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Why you should apply for the HS2 Woodland Fund before 5 July 2019
As the next HS2 Woodland Fund application deadline approaches find out about the process of applying.
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Interested in the HS2 Woodland Fund? Why you should attend our free workshop
We're holding a free workshop on the HS2 Woodland Fund. Here we've given more information on what to expect.
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Copyright and UK GDPR for photographers
I’m always amazed at how a moment can be captured so perfectly, displaying every emotion and eternalising them.
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365 days of Action Oak
Sarah Jeffrey, Action Oak Project Manager, writes a guest blog looking back on the last year of the Action Oak partnership and what it has achieved so far.
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Your urban forest needs you
Jim C Smith, our National Urban Forestry Advisor, has worked in forestry for most of his life and much of that has been within urban forestry. He talks about his career and gives his view on why urban forestry is so important to all of us.
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Why is biosecurity important to the health of our trees?
Biosecurity is very important for the health of our nation's trees but there is still a lot of confusion over what it means. Here the Tree Health team have provided answers to those questions they often receive.
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Introducing our new blog
Welcome to the Forestry Commission's new blog. A place to find out more information about the work that we are doing across England, from tree planting to tree felling and much more in between.
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Defining policy outcomes for event fees
Sheldon Ferguson writes about the Leasehold Reform team's discovery into event fees. Read how a user-centred design approach influenced outcomes, and view the publicly available report delivered to ministers.
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Health Matters: What you need to know about statins
Statins are vital in the UK effort to save many thousands of preventable deaths every year caused by cardiovascular disease. With extensive research confirming that statin treatment is very effective, safe and affordable, it is important that the myths and inaccuracies around them are dispelled. Read this blog to find out what you need to …
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Eating Disorders Awareness Week – Megan's story
Cabinet Office Health & Wellbeing Champion Charlie Edwards introduces Megan Phelps's account of living with anorexia.
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7 duties of a company director
Find out your legal responsibilities as a company director, in our guest blog from the Institute of Directors.
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Ageing and health expenditure
Does an ageing population lead to higher costs for the NHS and social care? Find out why this is not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
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Help us start a data revolution for government
We want to start a data revolution focusing on service delivery and improving human experience. Find out what we think government needs to do and how you can help.
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Biodiversity net gain matters
Guest blog from Nicola Thomas, Partnership Manager at Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Natural Environment Partnership writes a guest blog on net biodiversity gain.
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Dose Escalation - is it GCP compliant?
Dose escalation practices should be the same regardless of whether a clinical trial involves healthy volunteers or patients. Good quality data and sound procedures are vital to ensure the safety of all trial subjects.
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The Commission on incivility and extremism
Since the Commission for Countering Extremism came into existence in March this year, we have visited 13 towns and cities across England and Wales. Many of our meetings have been with frontline counter-extremists, community groups and local politicians. Almost all …
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Health Product People: designing and delivering better health and care digital services
The Health Product People community was started in January 2018 to bring together people working on digital services across the health and care space to share ideas, collaborate and work together to solve problems. The Health Product People community builds …
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It can be difficult to make data from information
The Digital Land services team recently ran a discovery in which we researched the barriers our users encounter when trying to find and use housing data. This is the first in a series of posts about those barriers, or what …
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Monitoring radioactivity in the environment
This blog refers to our 2018 publication of RIFE I’m one of the Environment Agency’s radiation specialists and scientists. Our radiological monitoring team works with CEFAS and our partners to pull together and analyse data from our UK-wide radiological monitoring …
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A professionals' perspective on the deputy online reporting service
Amy Feetham, accounts paralegal at law firm Irwin Mitchell, discusses her experience of using our online deputy reporting service. Irwin Mitchell was the first professional organisation to use the deputy online reporting service which launched in spring 2018.
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Flu vaccination: What you need to know about the 2018 programme
With another flu season almost upon us our Medical Director Professor Paul Cosford has answered some key questions about flu and flu vaccination.
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Teaching computers to read
...put HALF a Mini car at top of the 'Nuneaton nipple' - but why?” Coventry Live “Drivers are angry at queues of 'more than two hours' to get out of...
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Managing the Overseas Estate: the importance of local staff
Hi, I’m Brigadier Simon Stockley and I’m responsible for the provision of infrastructure to support our personnel in their bases overseas, while simultaneously providing Defence training facilities in the UK and around the world. Today I wanted to take the …
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Nouveau Lashes: winning a Queen's Award was a team effort
Bridgette Softley, Director of Nouveau Lashes, shares her thoughts on why they have applied and what it has meant to win.
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Queen’s Award like rocket fuel for Twinkl
Everything we do at Twinkl is to help those who teach. We’re an online educational publisher - with over 500,000 resources on our website from worksheets and flashcards to interactive presentations, videos and display materials.
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[Archived] Why some people suffer during heatwaves
This blog post has now been archived. If you would like to see the content it is available on the website of The National Archives. You can find an updated version of this blog post here.
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Friends in high places: Ringing peregrine falcon chicks at York Minster
...the roof of York Minster for rather impressive (peregrine eye) views of York. The four chicks were colour-ringed with orange rings with three black letters – allowing them to be...
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NDA logs in to preserve digital data down the centuries
The NDA has joined an international coalition dedicated to ensuring that the legacy of today's digital world will still make sense to future generations.
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High digital ambitions for our policy department
Things are changing over here in the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government. Chief Digital Officer Paul Maltby introduces MHCLG Digital and his priorities for the new programme.
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Promoting LGBT equality globally
...Prime Minister said in her recent speech, she “deeply regret[s] both the fact that such laws were introduced, and the legacy of discrimination, violence and even death that persists today”....
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Monday 16 April: Commonwealth unites to end scourge of plastic
...Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which kicks off in London today. Global leaders from the Commonwealth’s 53 member states will gather together this week to promote prosperity, democracy and...
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How should you contact the Marine Management Organisation?
The MMO handles a wide range of queries and correspondence. What is the best way to contact us?
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Remembering Professor Stephen Hawking
Our thoughts regarding the late Professor Stephen Hawking.
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British Standards Online
Deborah Brown from the British Standards Institute writes about their new offer for libraries.
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The latest on our deputy online reporting service
It’s been 18 months since we launched our online reporting service for lay deputies. Since then 6,000 reports have been submitted online, we’ve launched the service for public authorities and made changes to the design of the lay reporting service.