A set of reports published earlier this week show the progress that government departments have made in this area, and plans for the year ahead.
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Over the past couple of days the BETT show taking place in East London has been a platform for both government and opposition representatives to call for more computing in education.
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Despite the local government services not being covered under the government's Digital by Default strategy, many local authorities such as Camden Council are attempting to save money and improve services through their own digital strategies.
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Not that moving to the cloud was its original intention, as Richard Godfrey, ICT, strategy, infrastructure and programme manager for Peterborough Council explained: "We've been looking at how we deliver our IT service and how we deliver services in general as a council, which is kind of what led to a new IT strategy. It wasn't really written as a ‘sit down and write a cloud strategy for the council', it just so happened that moving towards cloud was the natural fit."
Currently, we share a management team with Breckland Council in Norfolk and some ‘back office’ services with East Lindsey District Council.
In 2008, we predicted these cuts and the need to prepare for them.