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#public-sector

The extra bank holiday was billed as a way to celebrate the men's national side reaching the tournament for the first time in almost 30 years. However, the holiday has not been universally adopted by employers.

Understanding the difference in purpose Unlike private businesses, which exist to make a profit, public institutions are designed to create impact - especially social and economic outcomes that benefit everyone, not just paying customers. A public agency doesn't measure its success in revenue or margins, but in how much it improves lives, builds equity and maintains public trust. This doesn't mean budgets and spending don't matter - they absolutely do - but money is not the goal. It's the tool.

Why are data-intensive apps in the enterprise, healthcare, and public sector so unusable and scary-looking? Proven design techniques such as user research, information architecture, design patterns, and plain language guidelines turn data-intensive apps into information to easily act on. You don't need AI to do this. There is accounting for taste When choosing an accountant, the adage to find someone stereotypically boring, committed to a long, unadventurous journey, but good with the numbers is well-known, though outdated.

Speaking during the inquiry's second evidence session on 29 October 2025, expert witnesses told Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights that, as it stands, the UK's "uncritical and deregulatory" approach to AI will fail to deal with the clear human rights harms presented by the technology. This includes harms related to surveillance and automated decision-making, which can variously impact both collective and individual rights to privacy, non-discrimination, and freedom of assembly; especially given the speed and scale at which the technology operates.

Public servants manage a geographically distributed group of people across dozens of public and private organizations daily. Cybersecurity officials work with state and federal counterparts, and homelessness coordinators work with public health departments and nonprofits. State veterans affairs departments sit at the intersection of educational and health benefits along with housing and job assistance. From my conversations with public servants across the country, it's clear that most critical government functions cannot happen without collaboration.

"As many other organisations in both the public and private sectors have discovered, the IR35 rules are complex," he said. "But we accept that the mistakes that came to light should not have been made. Our focus has been to resolve the issue with HMRC and the Welsh Government, taking advice from legal and tax experts to inform our decisions."

Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo. During Matrix's recent Strasbourg conference, more than two dozen public sector entities were noted to have tried (or were currently using) the technology. The vast majority were European, highlighting worries on the continent about dependency on closed and potentially insecure messaging platforms.

The aim is for the ID cards to be rolled out before the next election and initially used to prove people's right to work, before being expanded to store health and benefits data to streamline access to public services and tackle fraud. Ministers have told MPs there is a firm commitment to build the digital ID within the public sector and not contract it out to private companies.

In 2021, Sanaa Shaikh was burned out. As a South Asian woman working in an overwhelmingly white and male profession, she had spent years experiencing her fair share of discrimination and microaggressions-while at the same time being tasked with designing housing developments for underserved communities where she routinely felt like her ideas and perspective were dismissed. She was ready to move on.

Under Musk's leadership, the Department of Government Efficiency sought extensive cuts, promising to save $2 trillion but ultimately only claiming $175 billion, amidst accusations of dubious math.

"It's an agreement that recognises our value...as a huge client of their organisation, and how important their technology is to help us deliver changes to public services, to make them more in touch, more in tune and better value for money for taxpayers."

The way out of this dispute is to negotiate, not frustrate.

Mark Drakeford stated that the way Reeves has used the Barnett formula constitutes a violation of budgeting agreements, impacting public services in Wales.

They will be informed in the coming days of the sums to be repaid, ranging from as low as €100 up to €30,000.

In 2011, the Canadian government hired IBM for a new pay system, the Phoenix system, which led to significant issues overpaying or underpaying civil servants.