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Cheryl Hersey from Action PR explains how local councils can make the most of their community leisure centre through investment and marketing

Unions representing NHS staff have written to the government demanding a 3.9% pay rise after figures show wages have fallen compared with inflation After the government announced that the pay cap on public sector workers was to be lifted NHS staff have written to the Chancellor asking for a raise to...

Cryptocurrency prices have dropped dramatically as rumours spread that China will become the first country to begin cracking down on Bitcoin 

Agile Business Consortium highlights the importance of business agility in ensuring value for money and greater efficiency

A new poll by the National Student Survey (NSS) has found that the majority of university students in the UK are happy with their courses

Andrew Mellish, of Six Degrees Group Company Carrenza shares the challenges public sector organisations face when it comes to implementing cloud services

As the country moves to decide the next government, the OECD has called for more investment in projects that will encourage growth and productivity

Alistair Smith, Government and Public Sector Lead, Contino outlines why moving to the cloud could help government departments ditch toxic vendor relationships I’ve spent the last few years working on projects across a number of public sector organisations and have seen many of them hamstrung by legacy vendor relationships, typically...

Following backlash, the Conservatives have amended social care policy plans included in last week’s election manifesto

Some £48.6bn worth of pledges have been put forward as part of the Labour manifesto and will fund a range of services

John Bertrand, Digital Value Engineer at SAP talks about the value of blockchain and how it can benefit government as well as local authorities Blockchain seems to be everywhere and nowhere all at once. It is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) – also known as a shared database or...

Extra police officers will be put on the streets of England and Wales if Labour wins the upcoming snap General Election

The relationship between the citizen and the state is sacrosanct. Cabinet Minister Ben Gummer explains how the government will work for the people

A report says the government must learn from serious failings in the design, planning and cost-estimating of the Great Western railway modernisation project Significant failings in the management of the Great Western railway’s modernisation raise concerns about the Department for Transport and Network Rail’s ability to manage similar projects in...

Botond Szebeny, Jean-Paul Forceville, David Pilkington, Antonino Scribellito and Waqas Ahsen at PostEurop describe their work to tackle postal operators' security challenges Can you tell us about the collaboration at PostEurop, and how important this collaboration is from a postal security perspective? Botond Szebeny – Secretary General, PostEurop: The main tasks...

Michael Gaebel, Director of Higher Education Policy at the European University Association, highlights the upcoming European Commission Erasmus+ review The European Commission’s Erasmus+ Programme is of major importance for European higher education institutions. Like its predecessors, it provides funding for international staff and student mobility, inter-university cooperation, and wider engagement...

The UK government plans to make local council boycotts of countries and companies – particularly Israel – illegal, in new measures announced this week Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has unveiled plans to prevent council boycotts of companies and countrie unless they fall in line with central government policy. The move aims...

Head of Policy Affairs at Science Europe, Stephan Kuster, tells Open Access Government how open access promotes progress, helps society and benefits the taxpayer We live in a knowledge-based society in which culture, wellbeing, innovation, prosperity and social cohesion depend on the discovery, production and multiple uses of knowledge. Knowledge-...

Work to introduce more cost-effective Lincolnshire street lighting is continuing in and around Boston, Skegness and Mablethorpe over the next few months Lincolnshire County Council is proceeding with the final phase of a project to save £1.7 million from its annual street lighting budget of £5m. It is not the...

When the bottom line is all-important, cloud technology can help local government with everything from disaster recovery to shared services Local government needs to meet local needs. Government leaders are now expected to find ways to adopt technological innovations to increase citizen and business satisfaction against a backdrop of reducing...