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Fighting ash dieback and protecting the future of our woodlands
We have at least 3 million ash trees across the MOD estate, so managing the tree disease ash dieback is a significant objective of our sustainable woodland management and long-term forest planning. Read on to find out more.
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Protecting animal health - the role of scanning surveillance
As part of our series of blogs around One Health, Fin Twomey, Head of the Surveillance Intelligence Unit at APHA, talks about the importance of APHA’s scanning surveillance programme for detecting diseases of livestock and wildlife.
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Is 'compassionate ageism' the curse within social work and care?
In our social work with adults blogs this year we will be introducing thought provoking themes and ideas from across the sector. Ones that may challenge us, others that we can relate to, but all that will hopefully engage us …
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Climate crisis and the nation's forests
Mike Seddon, Chief Executive of Forestry England, looks at what they are doing with the nation's forests to help tackle the climate crisis.
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The Woodland Carbon Guarantee has now launched
The Woodland Carbon Guarantee offers the option to sell Woodland Carbon Units to government at a guaranteed price. Ian Gambles, Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, explains why land managers should apply now.
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Trees for zero?
Ian Gambles, Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, discusses new ways of thinking about sustainable land use - and why the benefits of forests are wider, and even longer term, than reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Cracking down on illegal felling
Ian Gambles, Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, looks at how the new Environment Bill will help the Forestry Commission combat illegal felling, close loopholes and protect our precious street trees.
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A coordinated response to the oak processionary moth outbreak
Oak Processionary Moth can cause serious harm to Oak trees. Discover what actions were taken this year when an outbreak occurred.
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Riddle me this: ‘Ooo, advanced, clearly!’
Who would put ‘Croydon’ and ‘Ada Lovelace’ together? Well, if you solved this riddle - you! If you spotted the anagram in the title and you know what’s special about 9 October, it might be time for a new career. …
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New online booking system for training facilities will make life easier for our Armed Forces
A Bidding and Allocation Management System (BAMS Online) went live across the Defence Training Estate this summer. It is a new online booking service for our Armed Forces.
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Protecting our plants and trees for future generations
Find out what we're doing to prevent the Xylella disease coming into the UK and how you can play a part in helping to stop its spread.
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Getting meta in Research Operations: researching researchers
How do you improve a service? By making sure that you understand your users' needs. In the Home Office, this type of understanding comes through conducting user research. But what if your users are researchers? Then you’re probably working …
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How the CMA investigates cartels
We provide insight into how we investigate cartels including the processes involved.
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Home Office in the media: Thursday 5 September
Today's leading stories include the launch of a national campaign to recruit 20,000 police officers, an announcement on future immigration and a High Court ruling on facial recognition. Police recruitment The launch of the campaign to recruit 20,000 additional police …
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Resilience is the focus for the next 100 years of forestry
As the Forestry Commission celebrates its centenary, find out why the Tree Champion, Sir William Worsley, believes that creating resilient forests should be our focus for the next 100 years.
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Working with us to tackle cartels
This blog explains what happens when you report a business cartel to us and the processes we have in place to help protect those who 'blow the whistle' on them.
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Learn about the Woodland Carbon Code
Dr Vicky West, Woodland Carbon Code Manager for Scottish Forestry, explains what the Woodland Carbon Code is and why now is a great time time to sign up to it if you are thinking about creating woodland.
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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 …