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The ILAP and the Aligned Pathway – What’s the difference?
The Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP) and the MHRA-NICE Aligned Pathway both support earlier patient access to safe and effective medicines but they serve different purposes and are accessed at different points in development. The ILAP provides early, coordinated …
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Reducing requisitions: building a culture of excellence at Attwells
How Attwells solicitors reduced avoidable requisitions through leadership, culture change and smart use of HMLR resources.
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Click, buy, harm: The growing threat of invasive species online
APHA’s Emma Brand explains how APHA is protecting the United Kingdom by uncovering illegal online invasive species sales to defend our wildlife before damage takes hold.
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Renters’ Rights Act: how content design and policy collaborated to deliver the guidance
The Renters’ Right Act changed the law for 11 million tenants who live in private properties in England and the 2.3 million landlords who rent them out. Find out how content design and policy teams worked together to help them prepare for the changes, and what the teams learnt on the journey.
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How Shaw Education Trust built a compliant, trust-wide supply model - and how yours could too
This is the second post in a three-part series. In our first post, we described the supply staffing challenges Shaw Education Trust (SET) faced and why acting early was essential. Here, we explain how they built their solution. Once SET …
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My first 100 days as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency
Ian Young CBE, Chief Scientific Advisor at the Food Standards Agency, reflects on his first 100 days in the role. He shares what he’s learned about how we use science and evidence to keep food safe and protect consumers.
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Introducing Ask DBT: Our new AI tool for making sense of the intranet
How we built a tool that gives colleagues from across DBT a way to ask questions in plain English and get clear, trusted answers drawn entirely from intranet content.
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Tribunals in 2026: progress, partnerships and plans for the future
Tracy Parker-Priest reflects on a year of significant change across tribunals, from increased digital uptake to implementing new policy change. She shares what's been achieved, what's ahead, and how tribunals are continuing to serve the people who need them most.
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Grey squirrels: managing an invasive species to support woodlands and our native red squirrels
Baroness Hayman of Ullock, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Biosecurity, Borders and Animals) discusses the significant impact invasive grey squirrels have on our woodlands and native red squirrel populations, and the landscape-scale effort needed to manage them.
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Making every customer call count through more joined-up data
Kieran Lewis reflects on a recent project to integrate multiple data sources into a single Customer Relationship Management interface, improving call centre efficiency and customer experience by saving time per call and allowing agents quicker access to relevant information, and with ongoing and further improvements still to come.
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Achieving our objectives; Supporting our stakeholders: OFAC-OFSI Enhanced Partnership Exchange 2026
Sanctions are among the most powerful tools available to the U.S. and UK governments in advancing our respective foreign policy and national security interests. In January 2026, as part of the continuing Enhanced Partnership, the HM Treasury’s Office of Financial …
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A survey for the pig sector
The Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator (ASCA) has launched a survey of the UK pig sector to better understand current challenges, awareness of the Fair Dealing Obligations and experiences across the supply chain.
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Amardeep’s story of resilience and ambition
Amardeep Panesar shares her journey from growing up in East London to becoming a senior school leader, highlighting the challenges she faced and how she pushed through them.
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Kieran’s story: From reluctant student to inspirational teacher
Kieran Anderson shares his story of how he got into teaching
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How to keep cool and stay well during hot weather
During the summer, many of us enjoy the longer days, warmer evenings, and time outdoors. But warmer weather also brings real risks to health, especially when temperatures climb higher than usual.
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What the UK NSC looks for when considering new screening tests
As part of its open call process, the UK NSC can accept proposals for new screening tests that are supported by evidence published in peer-reviewed literature.
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How Shaw Education Trust took control of supply staffing - and what your trust could learn from it
For Shaw Education Trust (SET), a multi-academy trust of 31 schools across England, supply staffing had become one of the largest and least controlled areas of expenditure, with annual costs rising to over £5 million*. SET took a step back …
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Turning plastic waste on our beaches into vital scientific data
Have you ever walked along a beach and noticed pieces of plastic waste washed up along the shore? Don’t walk past it. There might be valuable scientific data attached (as well as removing litter from the beach being the right …
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Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online
Rachel Malic, content designer at HMRC shares how to design to rebuild trust in using public services for people who have been affected by scams.
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Bringing researchers together: launching the first OPSS Areas of Research Interest
On 4th June, The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) held an online event to raise awareness of our recently published Areas of Research Interest (ARIs), and strengthen our OPSS connections with the research community. Around 60 external researchers …
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🏠 Making rented homes safer with new £7k fines - explainer
✅ Good news if you rent privately, as your local council can now take stronger action against your landlord if your home is found to have a serious hazard. A new power in the Renters’ Rights Act is now in …
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How GovPrint is supporting our efficiency and digital sustainability ambitions
GovPrint is a cross-government cloud-based service that lets civil servants securely print documents from any enabled location. In this post, our Live Services team explains how it rolled out GovPrint across MHCLG offices, and how this shared solution supports our efficiency and sustainability ambitions.
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FETF 2026 grant funding agreements now being issued
The first grant funding agreements for FETF 2026 are now being issued, bringing successful applicants one step closer to investing in new equipment and technology. Applicants should read their agreement carefully, accept their offer before the deadline and start planning equipment orders with suppliers.
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Food Fact Check: CBD safety and health claims
Food Fact Check: Chris Stockdale, Head of CBD policy and Max Tollitt, Senior Policy Advisor, CBD Policy answers questions about CBD.
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Unlocking the geography of health and deprivation: two enhanced analytical tools launch today
By Sarah Hammonds, Urban Greening Senior Officer This blog discusses the launch of two new tools: the Index of Multiple Environmental Deprivation (IMED) and the Environmental Equity Index (EEI). Built collaboratively over 18 months, they map environmental pressures and health …
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Welcome to Invasive Species Week - what is Cefas doing?
Aquatic invasive non‑native species can disrupt the delicate balance of our ecosystems, displacing native wildlife and altering habitats. From spreading diseases to creating new competition, their impacts can be far-reaching. In our increasingly connected world, these species are spreading more easily than ever, and climate …
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Hot weather and heatwaves: guidance for schools and other education settings
There are several ways that schools can make changes to keep children safe in hot weather, especially as children are more at risk of becoming ill with heat-related issues than adults. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published updated guidance …
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Keeping our seafarers safe on World Hydrography Day
With more than 90% of the UK’s imports and exports moving by sea, on World Hydrography Day let’s take a closer look at the high-resolution seabed mapping work overseen by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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Enhancing digital trust through trust services – an update
In December 2024, we blogged about OfDIA’s work to explore how the wider take up of UK qualified trust services across the economy might complement the evolving UK digital identity ecosystem. In August 2025, we launched a call for views on trust services. We have now published the findings from …
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Explainer: How we’re making buying and selling a home simpler, faster and more certain
The way you buy and sell a home is changing to make it faster, simpler, and more certain. 🔑 What does that mean? 🏠 What this means for you 📊 Why the current system needs fixing 📅 What happens now? ❓ Common questions Phil Spencer, Move iQ founder - top tips …
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Coverage of home buying and selling reforms
There is widespread positive national and consumer media coverage following MHCLG’s announcement of major reforms to the homebuying and selling system, aimed at making transactions faster, more transparent, and less likely to fall through. The Financial Times reports the government’s …
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How The Bus Station helped us grow Co‑Lab in West Cumbria
Supported by Sellafield Ltd’s social impact programme, The Bus Station is helping businesses like Co Lab establish, grow and contribute to West Cumbria’s economy.
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Using AI to support planning decisions – what it means for planners and residents
A new AI planning prototype, developed with Google DeepMind and Faculty, is being tested with three local planning authorities to help officers process applications faster. The tool analyses applications and surfaces relevant policies while planning officers remain the key decision makers. Our ambition is to halve processing times for householder applications.
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Connection must be at the heart of adult social care
This week is Loneliness Awareness Week and I wanted to thank Phil Holmes, this year’s President of ADASS for challenging us to think about the contribution of adult social care to tackling loneliness. When I think back to my time as a front-line social …
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How our move to GovPrint is delivering sustainability and social value
John Dare explains how GovPrint, our new managed print service, shows that we’re doing more than replacing old devices. By partnering with the Ministry of Justice and DSA Connect, we’re turning end-of-life printers into an opportunity to deliver zero landfill waste while supporting rehabilitation and employment.
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Laying the groundwork for the Nature Restoration Fund
The Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) is a landmark reform to the way housing and infrastructure developers meet their environmental responsibilities. Yesterday, 18 June 2026, two sets of secondary legislation were laid before Parliament. This is an important step towards putting the fund into practice, …
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Explaining targeted screening
The UK NSC welcomes proposals for targeted screening programmes as part of its open call process.
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Misleading claims on local government reorganisation
There have been misleading claims reported in the Times today saying that decisions on local government reorganisation are “gerrymandering”. This is simply not true. These decisions are being made in line with the published criteria – not on a party …
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UK Space Agency staff member wins NATO Early Career Award
Diana Luncă, Senior Programme Lead for National Security at the UK Space Agency, has won the NATO STO SCI Early Career Award for her outstanding contribution to a NATO research meeting on the use of dual-use space technologies for Alliance operations and security.
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How user-centred design shaped a new jobs and careers homepage
Plans for a new employment support service were set out in 2024’s Get Britain Working White Paper. The report describes a need for a new way of helping jobseekers, using products that keep pace with a changing labour market. Tasked …