This year, International Women’s Day also marks roughly one year since the global emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Simon Freeman and Paul Abraham discuss the challenges that local government has faced during the Coronavirus pandemic and how creating partnerships across the private and third sectors is the key to future success.

Tortoise Media recently held a ThinkIn on how we can already see a landscape of economic and governmental uncertainty stretching ahead of us.

The overly optimistic amongst us may be thinking that returning to conventional working will be easy. But the situation we’re in, truly is unprecedented.

Perhaps surprisingly, a huge number of companies have adapted to the changes necessitated by the threat of Covid-19 and have recognised some of the benefits of a flexible workforce.

While Covid has put the brakes on a lot of things – normal schooling, visiting family and friends, holidays and music festivals, commuting and meetings in the office, it has enabled and accelerated the uptake and development of a number of other trends.

Think of an area of your life that isn’t touched in some respect by a digital component. Or think of any experience and remove all digital influences. What would your life look like?

Andy Start, Executive Officer of Government Services, and Chantal Free, Executive Officer of People Solutions, discuss Covid-19’s impact on how public sector employees work. They look at what we’ve learned and how we can build on innovations for the future.

While many of us have effectively transitioned to at-home working, for some industries, like construction and infrastructure, that’s completely impossible.

Capita are supporting with the roll-out of Alcohol Monitoring - a new form of electronic tagging to rehabilitate people who’ve committed alcohol-driven crimes.