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An integrated children's services record, a citizen entitlement card and a property database are all part of Scotland's efforts to meet its 2005 e-government targets

The Scottish Executive has announced further details of its e-government programme.

It is to spend £30m over the next two years on projects which include an integrated children's services record, a voluntary citizens' entitlement card and a geographical database for property management.

Read more: GB: Scotland braves the target

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The Scottish Executive has released details of the programmes that will benefit from the £30 million third round of its Modernising Government Fund.

The fund is part of the Executive's collaborative working with service providers to develop innovative solutions for improving public services. This £30 million for the next two years will bring spending on the Modernising Government programme up to £95.5 million over the four years since the fund was announced.

Read more: GB: Scottish Executive announces details of £30m e-Government expenditure

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A new phone service in Scotland is aiming to give early warning to social services authorities on vulnerable children

The Scottish Executive is setting up a 24 hour help line for people to report concerns about vulnerable children.

Read more: GB: Scotland gets child protection line

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Is the Scottish Executive's stated ambition to squeeze more efficiency savings out of the public sector than the rest of the UK beginning to unravel, before a single pound has been saved or a single job axed? Last Thursday, first minister Jack McConnell told the Financial Times he wanted to go beyond the targets set for the UK government by Sir Peter Gershorn's review of Whitehall bureaucracy.

Read more: GB: Scotland: Now is the Midwinter of our discontent with spin

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People and business in remote parts of Scotland without broadband will soon be able to get access, following an extension to a countrywide initiative

The Scottish Executive has promised to provide affordable broadband to those communities in Scotland without access by the end of 2005, it was announced on 25 April 2005.

Read more: GB: Scotland widens the net

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