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How has the UK response to ransomware worked?
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Jun 2022 -
Time to act on the DCMS Select Committee 2016 Recommendations
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Jun 2022 -
Building consensus round skills and employment policies that work
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Apr 2022
Ransomware gangs begin with their own due diligence - to calculate how much the victim (or insurer) will pay before reporting. They are likely to move on and find a victim who will not report, ...
Prepare for when losses from impersonation replace whiplash and PPI as the target income stream of ambulance-chasing lawyers, so that you can rapidly sort the genuine claims from the rest.
successful implementation ... requires that ministers instruct their officials to give priority to actions that involve co-operation across departmental boundaries and to listen to employers and ...
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Progress with resetting UK Skills and Employment Agendas for a decade of Accelerating Change.
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Mar 2022 -
Time to act on "Authorised Payment" Fraud
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Feb 2022 -
Setting the UK Skills and Employment Agenda for the next decade
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2022 -
Helping Employers (and Ministers) make sense of the many UK Skills initiatives.
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2022 -
Levelling Up Access to Jobs
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Feb 2022 -
2022: Time to take algorithm-enhanced online abuse seriously
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Jan 2022 -
Setting the Skills and Employment Agenda for 2022 and beyond
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2021
The next objective is to report (by the end of March) on that which can be commenced without the need for new legislation/regulation and to agree plans to launch studies in May on that which may ...
In 2014 a working group hosted by the DPA (Digital Policy Alliance) working with faster payment data from six banks established that 75% of fraudulent payments could have been stopped in real time ...
The first review meeting agreed a series of actions for review on 23rd February . None was partisan. Some are potentially controversial but do not divide audiences along party lines. They do set ...
We have a morass of vocational education, careers and skills initiatives competing for funds and attention. Most are organised by those (including Departments and Agencies) unaware of what others ...
Over 400 employers attended a briefing with officials from Home Office and DCMS on 27th January when we learned that, welcome though the new processes are, those without a current UK passport will ...
The algorithms used by dominant social media companies have compounded the risks to unsupervised children in their bedrooms by automating the processes predators use to find and groom potential ...
Education for one career for life is now the exception not the norm for most school-leavers and graduates. The current workforce is on a treadmill of change. This is accelerating faster than most ...
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Towards UK Skills and Employment Policies for a Post-Pandemic World
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Dec 2021 -
Forced on-line by the NHS: to be confused, exploited, ignored, mistreated and/or patronised
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Nov 2021 -
Skills and Employment Policy for the digital age
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Oct 2021 -
Cashing in on the Chips: The view from 1979
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Oct 2021 -
STEM schooling for a world of lifelong training
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Sep 2021
Covid has already precipitated the biggest challenge to UK education structures since the dissolution of the monasteries and chantries led to the creation of the grammar schools which educated ...
All this informed my MSc IT Security final dissertation entitled ‘Inclusion, Confusion and Exclusion – is technology making the Vulnerable more Vulnerable?’ I looked at Social, Financial and ...
The pace of change has accelerated and centralised planning can no longer keep up. Widening workforce skills gaps require investment on a scale akin to that made in higher education but structured ...
The threat to jobs is a fashionable topic for speculation but, by comparison, it is a non-problem. Already we have chronic labour shortages side by side with rising unemployment. It is clear that ...
How do we integrate the lessons learned since March 2020 and build on the existing abundance of material to “construct a really cracking educational experience to ensure that lifelong learning is ...