As many of us start to return to offices and other workplaces, the hybrid approach has emerged as the most popular solution for both employees and employers.

Long tail strategy is also about corporate responsibility, the SME agenda, supply chain risk and social value.

At a recent roundtable in partnership with Wired, Doug Brown, Head of Data, Cyber and AI Guild and Chief Data Scientist of Capita Consulting, was joined by Lisa Talia Moretti, a digital sociologist at the Ministry of Justice; Reid Darby, innovation lead at Golden Valley Development in Cheltenham; Carly Kind, Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute and Tavi Kotka, an engineer/entrepreneur and former Chief Information Officer for the Estonian government to discuss data, identity and the digital citizen.

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented enormous challenges across society and contributed to the widening of inequalities across many measures.

Chantal Free, Executive Officer of Capita’s People Solutions, explains how our Re-imagining HR survey shows that, while organisations are motivated to transform their models of working post-Covid, not all may fully plan for the challenges that lie ahead.

Capita and the Local Government Chronicle hosted a webinar to bring together local government experts and discuss how to secure funding to help revitalise our high streets.

For many people, being released from prison can be a daunting prospect. According to UK charity Prison Reform Trust, a significant number of those entering the prison system suffer from mental health issues and learning disabilities, with up to 62% of offenders having a reading age of 11 or lower.

Back in the Thatcher years of the 1980s, the explosion of out-of-town shopping centres arguably presented the biggest threat to our traditional town centres.

Town centres and high streets have traditionally been the focus of urban life, whether this is somewhere like London - often described as ‘a collection of villages’ - or a market or regional town.

Local government exists to serve local people, businesses and those who visit, either to work or for recreation.