Tash Shifrin

The U.K. government has responded to a devastating report by MPs on the failure of an IT project to implement a new payments plan for farmers by saying it is "confident" a new management team can deliver.

U.K. firms are at risk of data leakage through their employees' increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking websites, security experts have warned

Pay for UK IT consultants has shot up 17 percent over the past year, fuelled by soaring demand for skilled and experienced professionals to meet public sector outsourcing needs and integrate systems after a huge wave of merger and acquisition activity, new research has revealed

A committee of MPs has warned there is "no evidence" that the U.K. government's proposed new child maintenance system and the IT to support it will avoid a repeat of the fiasco surrounding the doomed Child Support Agency (CSA).

Costs from implementation delays to the U.K. National Health Service's

The city council of Portsmouth, in U.K., is to introduce a Web-based lending service for its libraries, giving members of the public the ability to browse its collection and reserve books and audio-visual materials online.

IT managers and senior professionals are facing blocked career paths as the workforce ages, IT human resources analysts have warned

The "fresh start" organization being set up to replace the failed Child Support Agency (CSA) will inherit its crisis-hit IT systems, work and pensions minister James Plaskitt has admitted. The axing of the CSA was confirmed in July last year, when ministers acknowledged the organization had