Somerset
RSS Somerset£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News The dispute revolves around the transfer of 1,500 local government jobs in Somerset - including more than 130 IT workers as well as finance, HR, property procurement and contact staff - to a joint venture company... [06 Aug 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News These are: Bury College; Canterbury College; Chichester College; Tresham Institute, Kettering; Sandwell College; Somerset College of Arts and Technology; New College, Swindon; Stockport College; Stratford upon Avon... [06 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.08.08
Round-Up In a bid to stop more time-wasting calls like this, Avon and Somerset Police have turned to YouTube, posting some clips (such as this one) to deter people from tying up emergency lines with ridiculous calls. [01 Aug 2008]
Police shame 999 time wasters on YouTube
News But that did not stop some callers in Somerset from hitting 999 and berating exasperated emergency operators about their wife's sub standard salmon sandwiches or their difficulties peeling potatoes. Now Avon and... [29 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The RUH provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in north east Somerset and western Wiltshire. A health trust serving more than... [22 Jul 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News New forces coming on to the programme are Avon and Somerset Police, City of London Police, Derbyshire Constabulary, Durham Constabulary, Greater Manchester Police, Kent Police, Leicester Constabulary, Merseyside Police,... [11 Jun 2008]
Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources
News Alan Shrimpton, IT director, Avon & Somerset Police Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime and online fraud threats facing businesses today. That's the unanimous... [18 Mar 2008]
UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'
News Alan Shrimpton, IT director at Avon & Somerset Constabulary, said: "Apart from one specialist skill where we simply aren't paying the market rate we are not experiencing any difficulties recruiting staff. [11 Oct 2007]
Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM
News The 10-year venture between Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council is called Southwest One and will provide shared services to half a million residents and include a managed shared IT infrastructure... [02 Oct 2007]
Application Developer's Messaging Infrastructure Provides Built in Protection
White Paper Co-headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey and Bangalore, India with offices in California, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia and Colorado in the U.S. United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Australia and the Middle East,... [28 Sep 2007]
Businesses cool on software as a service
News Alan Shrimpton, IT director, Avon and Somerset Constabulary Software as a service (SaaS) remains a low priority for businesses despite the hype and the potential for more variable licensing costs. SaaS is again in the... [18 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.08.07
Round-Up The Round-Up fondly recalls being told by a Somerset local that the way to the pub was to "head down that road there and turn left two miles before the church". If you thought that CIO just stood for 'chief information... [31 Aug 2007]
BlackBerrys and PDAs bad for work/life balance
News Alan Shrimpton, IT director at Avon and Somerset Constabulary, said: "I can now use down-time - waiting to collect daughters, train journeys - to continue to read and action emails, which means I don't have a huge queue... [18 Jul 2007]
Mac versus PCs - the CIO verdict
News Alan Shrimpton, head of IS at Avon and Somerset Constabulary, said: "Many of our applications are mandated on us by existing national contracts and they are all based on a Windows desktop. Alan Shrimpton, Avon and... [12 Jul 2007]
How to stop your best tech staff from being poached
News Alan Shrimpton, head of IS at Avon and Somerset Constabulary, said two of his senior staff have just been poached by the private sector because they had developed specialist skills now in demand. Alan Shrimpton, head of... [28 Jun 2007]
