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Using Generative AI to help users resolve Trade Barriers

How DBT used a Large Language Model to increase knowledge sharing and improve its Market Access Service

Updated: 2025-03-27

Using integrated pest management to grow healthy crops and support nature

The UK's National Action Plan for Pesticides guides farmers towards sustainable pest, weed and disease management through integrated pest management (IPM). By combining techniques like crop rotation, biodiversity, and selective pesticide use, IPM strengthens farm resilience, boosts food production, and helps nature thrive. In this post we share resources and case studies.

Updated: 2025-03-26

From Inspiration to Action: Driving Gender Diversity in Engineering

Before joining the Civil Service, I did science outreach, demonstrating different robots to school children and explaining how we program them. We showed that they too could grow up to do programming and themselves as a career. There were so ...

Updated: 2025-03-26

Why clear and accurate pricing matters - and how businesses can get it right

Learn how we've been working to help consumers get clearer and more accurate price information, and what businesses can do to get it right.

Updated: 2025-03-25

Funding Service: How we transformed Delta based on user needs 

Delta is the main platform MHCLG uses to collect data and make payments. It helps the department make policy decisions, release national statistics and process payments to local authorities.  Read how the Funding Service transformed Delta based on user needs.

Updated: 2025-03-25

Focus Five - a high impact, low-cost response to disadvantage

Phil Stock, who is also Director of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Research School based at Greenshaw, tells us about his schools' approach to supporting its most disadvantaged pupils through pupil premium.

Updated: 2025-03-25

A whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing: Part 2

Two mental health leads at the Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) talk about the central role of leadership and management in supporting and championing efforts to promote mental health and wellbeing, as part of a whole school approach.

Updated: 2025-03-25

A whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing: Part 1

Two mental health leads talk about how they work alongside the senior leadership team to develop a whole school approach, to supporting mental health and wellbeing at school.

Updated: 2025-03-25

Start your school day right - the benefits of breakfast clubs

Headteacher Mrs Ash McGann shares Burton Green Primary School's experience of being part of the Healthy Breakfast club pilot scheme and the benefits it's brought to the whole school.

Updated: 2025-03-24

Achieving success for all through the Pupil Premium

Elizabeth Bramley, headteacher and disadvantage strategy lead tells us how she uses the pupil premium grant to raise attainment.

Updated: 2025-03-24