Public Sector Focus

The legacy of Grenfell

30.04.18: PSE’s Seamus McDonnell looks at the reactions of councils and the government to the Grenfell Tower fire, from the immediate aftermath to the most recent developments. In March this year, the Metropolitan Police announced that one of G...

Inquiry warns of ‘lack of transparency’ around child sexual abuse failures

27.04.18: There has been a “lack of transparency” around the failure of some institutions to protect children from sexual abuse, it has been revealed. The Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has published its interim report, in w...

Are we moving closer to health equality?

23.04.18: Reporting from the LGA’s Annual Public Health Conference 2018, PSE’s Sacha Rowlands considers the age-old question: are longer lives necessarily better lives, or do we still have some way to go to achieve true health equality? T...

Is your organisation considering a spend recovery audit?

03.04.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Hannah Bennett, marketing executive at Audit Partnership, the latest named supplier on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS’s) Spend Analysis and Recovery Services II framework, provides an insight into spend...

Using Software Asset Management as a key enabler for GDPR compliance

26.03.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling, of License Dashboard, looks into why it is so important for public sector organisations to be able to account for their technology assets in order to fall in line with incoming GDPR regulations. The EU...

Making a mission impossible, possible

19.03.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE XMA, one of the UK’s leading providers of technology products, services and solutions to the public sector, discovers how it really is possible to save energy, money – the world, even – one monitor at a...

Software asset management in the education sector

19.03.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling of License Dashboard discusses the advantages of using Software Asset Management (SAM) in the education sector to ensure compliance in both higher and further education. Whe...

Using SAM to seal the (best) deal

16.03.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling of License Dashboard discusses the importance of using Software Asset Management (SAM) in contract renewals to improve planning and save money through preparation. Effective Software...

Building SAM into every cloud project

09.03.18: ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Craig Taylor of Phoenix Software discusses the importance of considering Software Asset Management (SAM) at every stage of your cloud migration to better monitor costs, manage the project, and maintai...

How can cost-conscious organisations benefit from an imaginative provider?

22.01.18: Advertisement feature Rafael Cortes, head of marketing at Foehn, discusses what cloud service providers can do to deliver innovative solutions for their clients. At some time or other, we’ve all met those over-used phrases that h...

Driving inclusive growth in the West Midlands

14.12.17: PSE’s Josh Mines reports from the Social Value Conference 2017, where mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street explained how social value is benefitting his region. One of the values behind the combined authorities that have been set up...

The King’s Fund Annual Conference 2017: looking to the future

14.12.17: PSE’s Seamus McDonnell reports from the King’s Fund Annual Conference 2017 in London, which covered the latest developments in integration, prevention, and the future of health and social care during 29-30 November. Against the...

National Social Value Conference 2017: Doing something revolutionary

13.12.17: At a time when local government is looking to squeeze extra value from procurement, original thinking can make all the difference. PSE’s Josh Mines reports from the National Social Value Conference 2017, where delegates heard all about the...

Public sector cyber security needs to fight back

11.12.17: Getting security wrong during the transition from paper to digital could mean a loss of public confidence in new services, argues Graeme Stewart, director of public sector at Fortinet UK&I. From ransomware attacks against the NHS, to cy...

Tracing next of kin

08.12.17: Chief executive of Hoopers Genealogists, Kevin Edmondson, reflects on how the increasing number of public health funerals and recent changes to the Government Legal Department’s (GLD’s) policy on unclaimed estates affect the public s...