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The Home Secretary has awarded £23m funding to support projects that will transform the police service… Projects aimed at transforming policing across England and Wales are set to benefit from government funding. Fourteen ground-breaking projects will receive a slice of £23m from the Police Transformation Fund, which is supplied via the...

The European Research Council has announced its annual funding budget for 2017 under Horizon 2020 will stand at €1.8bn… Last month the European Commission announced the research and innovation budget for its flagship programme Horizon 2020 (H2020) would stand at €8.5bn during 2017. The announcement was made following an update...

Cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease. Despite all efforts to fight cancer, it continues to impact every segment of society. For example, many patients fail conventional cancer therapies, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery; and it is still difficult for physicians to predict a treatment outcome with certainty.

Leicestershire County Council has asked the government to entirely fund the cost of housing 74 child refugees… The government has been asked to cover the cost of rehoming Syrian child refugees by Leicestershire County Council. The cash-strapped local authority has to find £1.5m funding to rehome these children. Both Leicester City Council...

Simon Dennis, Central Government Director, SAS UK talks about the role of data analytics in the public sector and how it can improve services... The importance of data analytics in the UK public sector and wider society was in the spotlight earlier this year, following a report from Policy Exchange....

Italian government passes a new bill aimed at reducing the amount of food wasted by the country… A series of new measures aimed at reducing food wastage in Italy has been passed by the government. It is estimated Italians waste some five million tonnes of food each year. Ministers say businesses...

 John Wright, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Unisys, outlines the importance of a digitally integrated justice system and how this can be achieved... European central and local governmental departments are perpetually challenged by the need to drive greater digital initiatives to enable integration across their own departments and between those...

Cillian Lohan, environmental scientist and a member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), outlines why we must push ahead with the transition to a circular economy… The Circular Economy is not about one big circle, but rather a series of interconnected and inter-influential circles. It is much more than...

Dr Justin Warner, Clinical Lead for the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health details how continued improvements in diabetes care for children is needed in England and Wales… According to latest statistics, the outcomes for children and young people with type 1 diabetes...

New analysis of official figures shows that outstanding school places in England are not being offered to poor children who live nearby A blog by Schooldash revealed that poor pupils were not offered outstanding school places and notably under-represented at schools rated outstanding by Ofsted. The study looked at the proportion...

Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard highlights the devastating effects of illegal and unreported fishing… Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a devastating reality facing the world’s fisheries today. This criminal activity undermines the responsible fish management practices of nations and threatens the sustainability...

Small firms based outside the capital survive longer and are more resilient to economic changes, according to a new report… Fewer than two out of five start-up businesses survive longer than five years in London. However a new report has revealed small firms outside the capital last longer, weathering economic...

North Yorkshire County Council is seeking a delivery partner to increase superfast broadband coverage across the region… In a bid to increase superfast broadband coverage to 96 per cent of homes across North Yorkshire, the county council has agreed to put out to tender the third phase of its superfast...

A new report has warned it costs government services £78bn to tackle the impact of poverty across the UK, with the health service bearing the brunt of this… Poverty in the UK is costing the government a whopping £78bn a year to tackle. This bill does not include money spent...

Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow at Bruegal highlights the serious divide between EU member states in terms of their capacity to innovate… The European Union’s lofty ambition is that its future prosperity should be built on foundations of innovation. But ambition has so far not translated into leading performance. According to...

Better screening is leading to people with cancer surviving at least a decade after being diagnosed… A new report from Macmillan Cancer Support has revealed people with cancer are surviving longer after diagnosis. The charity said more than 170,000 people who were diagnosed with cancer up to 40 years ago are...

The Green Party in Germany is calling for reassurances from the government that British people living in the country will be able to stay post-Brexit… The issue of what will happen to EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU is one that has been the topic...

Martin Easter, General Manager at Hygiena International Ltd highlights the importance of cleanliness in hospital settings… “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement.  If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it,...

Almost a third of Scottish voters are calling for a deal over the EU to be laid out before a new independence referendum is called… A new poll has revealed almost a third of Scottish voters want to wait for a Brexit deal to be laid out before holding another...

Ancient settlements and urban sites offer the keys to more direct understanding of cultures, but they are very challenging in exploration. The ERC Across-Borders project accepts this challenge and focuses on settlement patterns in Egypt and Sudan in the 2nd Millennium BC.