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Having entered the New Year, the long-awaited UK Government Autumn Budget – Labour’s second since taking office- may seem like a distant memory. As a reminder, it was a Budget preceded by a stream of leaks, but which still offered a surprise on Budget day when the Office for...

Digital inclusion in health and care

Procuring skilled cyber staff can be costly and not a viable option, at the moment there are no specific

In May last year, the Scottish Government opened its consultation on a series of Disclosure Scotland proposals, including steps to provide PVG discounts to care experienced people and those on particular benefits. Alongside these admirable proposals, there was one specific...

. • Local procurement – understand organisational spend, what impact it has and how supply chains are,targets and a timetable for redirecting spend to competitive local suppliers alongside organising procurement,processes and contracts to enable smaller, local organisations to bid. • Social procurement – adopt,‘good jobs’ into procurement and commissioning frameworks, sending collective market signals relating

These have been set up to allow public sector organisations to procure a large number of quality devices

It must be recognised that poor funding and procurement practices undermine voluntary organisations aspirations

It must be recognised that poor funding and procurement practices undermine voluntary organisations aspirations