Comments - The first hundred piece jigsaw ... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T19:22:10Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A149&xn_auth=noMPs slam Libra as one of UK's…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-02-21:5313775:Comment:1324072024-02-21T09:53:51.141ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever<br />
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Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT.<br />
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MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever<br />
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Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT.<br />
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<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240053405/MPs-slam-Libra-as-one-of-UKs-worst-PFI-deals-ever" target="_blank">https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240053405/MPs-slam-Libra-as-one-of-UKs-worst-PFI-deals-ever</a> New IT Systems for Magistrate…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-02-21:5313775:Comment:1327142024-02-21T09:52:10.544ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
New IT Systems for Magistrates’ Courts: the Libra Project<br />
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Report – Value for money Date: 29 Jan 2003<br />
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Topics: Commercial and financial management, Digital transformation, Digital, data and technology, Education, training and skills, Private finance<br />
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A national standard IT system for magistrates’ courts has been under development for over ten years but is still not complete, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today. The cost of the project has increased…
New IT Systems for Magistrates’ Courts: the Libra Project<br />
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Report – Value for money Date: 29 Jan 2003<br />
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Topics: Commercial and financial management, Digital transformation, Digital, data and technology, Education, training and skills, Private finance<br />
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A national standard IT system for magistrates’ courts has been under development for over ten years but is still not complete, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today. The cost of the project has increased substantially since a PFI deal was signed in 1998.<br />
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IT systems in magistrates’ courts have been inadequate for many years. Current systems do not allow information to be shared electronically with other courts and electronic information transfer to other enforcement agencies is piecemeal. After two failed projects in the early 1990s, the Lord Chancellor’s Department decided in 1996 to procure a PFI contract for a national standard IT system called Libra.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/new-it-systems-for-magistrates-courts-the-libra-project/" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/new-it-systems-for-magistrates-courts-the-libra-project/</a> Capita plc announces that it…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-06-21:5313775:Comment:365282019-06-21T07:10:02.744ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
Capita plc announces that it has acquired STL Technologies Limited (‘STL’) for an undisclosed sum. STL provides software and ICT to the criminal justice system, including courts and the police, and to asylum and immigration tribunals.<br />
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STL specialises in case management applications and currently provides Equis case management for Her Majesty’s Court’s Service, Libra case management for the Ministry of Justice, national case management and accounts for the Scottish Courts’ Service and case…
Capita plc announces that it has acquired STL Technologies Limited (‘STL’) for an undisclosed sum. STL provides software and ICT to the criminal justice system, including courts and the police, and to asylum and immigration tribunals.<br />
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STL specialises in case management applications and currently provides Equis case management for Her Majesty’s Court’s Service, Libra case management for the Ministry of Justice, national case management and accounts for the Scottish Courts’ Service and case preparation and custody applications for West Midlands Police.<br />
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Andy Parker, Capita plc’s joint chief operating officer, said: “The acquisition of STL will provide further depth to the range of solutions we offer the emergency services, criminal justice system and wider public and private sector clients. It has significant synergies with our existing justice and secure services business, which holds contracts with the Ministry of Justice and the UK Border Agency. We already work, in some capacity, with all police forces in England and Scotland and with a number of large public and private sector organisations. These additional capabilities will allow us to provide new solutions, on a tailored basis, alongside our multi service offering.”<br />
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STL has around 105 employees, primarily in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.<br />
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<a href="https://www.capita.com/news/news/2013/capita-acquires-justice-softw" target="_blank">https://www.capita.com/news/news/2013/capita-acquires-justice-softw</a>... Does it make you feel old to…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-10-08:5313775:Comment:160322013-10-08T22:08:37.910ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718390?profile=original" target="_self"><font><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718390?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="317"></img></font></a></strong> <strong><font>Does it make you feel old to know that Dyson’s dustbag-free vacuum is 20 this year? </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font>Or that the much-loved Sony Walkman and the world’s first ever laptop, the Epson HX-30, are both over 30 years old?<br></br><br></br></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font><span><span>In 1966 the…</span></span></font></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718390?profile=original" target="_self"><font><img width="317" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718390?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="317" class="align-right"/></font></a></strong><strong><font>Does it make you feel old to know that Dyson’s dustbag-free vacuum is 20 this year? </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font>Or that the much-loved Sony Walkman and the world’s first ever laptop, the Epson HX-30, are both over 30 years old?<br/><br/></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font><span><span>In 1966 the <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bbc-computer-literacy" target="_blank">BBC</a> announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour. Britain was the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour</span><span><br/><br/><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2449468/Sony-Walkman-zip-Past-centurys-100-inventions.html#ixzz2hAiW5cY6"></a></span></span></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font><span>The Instamatic was a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/kodak-is-not-the-only-household-name" target="_blank">Kodak</a> in the 1960s. Today there would be no Instagram without this invention</span><span><br/></span><br/></font></strong></p>
<p><font><strong><span>Cutting out the hard work: <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/i-have-been-bemused-of-late" target="_blank">Apple's iPod</a> meant trips to the record store were a thing of the past, while Dyson's bagless vacuum cleaner got rid of a lot of the mess and fuss of keeping houses in order. </span><span><br/><br/><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2449468/Sony-Walkman-zip-Past-centurys-100-inventions.html#ixzz2hAgixyra"></a></span></strong></font></p>
<p><font><strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2449468/Sony-Walkman-zip-Past-centurys-100-inventions.html" target="_blank">These are just a few of the gadgets</a> <em>that have made it onto the</em> 100 gadgets of the past century that we can’t live without, with technologies ranging from humble zip to the Playstation 4.</strong> </font></p>
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<p></p> Apple puts eye into iDevices…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-01-07:5313775:Comment:127212013-01-07T07:52:14.986ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<h1 class="cN-headingPage"><strong><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/apple-puts-eye-into-idevices-20121128-2acch.html" target="_blank">Apple puts eye into iDevices</a></strong></h1>
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