At first glance a grant may be viewed simply as money being given to those who deserve and need it. Yet grants are always so much more than this.

Anglia Revenues Partnership (ARP), which collects council tax and delivers housing benefit for seven local authorities across East Anglia, has been announced as the latest customer to sign up to Capita Software Services’ new automation software.

Capita announces it has secured an extension to its contract with Barnet Council to continue to deliver back-office services for the borough’s citizens.

The majority of UK businesses fear becoming ‘irrelevant’ within the next five years through failing to make a successful transition to an automated workplace.

Capita has entered a partnership with UiPath, the world’s leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software provider. UiPath will support Capita as it strengthens its digital capabilities.

Capita has been certified as a partner of Blue Prism, a leading robotic process automation software company.

Capita has added an automation function to its benefits software, helping councils reduce claim processing times to less than two minutes - 20 times quicker than processing the same form manually.

It doesn’t seem too long ago that the introduction of interactive voice response (IVR) received a rocky reception with many customers citing that they preferred to speak to a ‘real human’.

We look at public sector digital transformation projects delivered during the pandemic such as the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) Test and Trace programme.

The second year of the pandemic has seen more people in the UK slide further into debt and organisations need to recalibrate their response through empathetic collections.