All those civil service bigwigs are cashing in their chips now, I wonder what they see on the horizon that has prompted them to do that.
DWP CIO and chief digi officer Mayank Prakash quits
Mayank Prakash, chief digital officer and CIO of the UK Department for Work and Pensions has quit today, The Register can exclusively reveal. Prakash, who has worked at DWP for four years and been the sole head of digital reforms within the department since 2016, told colleagues of his decision this morning. A spokeswoman at …
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Wednesday 26th September 2018 12:16 GMT Danny 2
Sickie Selfie
I had to sign off sick for a couple of weeks at the start of the year. I had to before but this time I was allowed to just email a photo of my doctor's sicknote rather than post it, which was a godsend since I couldn't walk to a postbox.
I have a comprehensive paper trail that proves the head of the DWP ten years ago and many of his staff were blatant liars, and their department seemed designed to abuse and deceive, but I guess some things change slowly behind the scenes.
That being said Universal Credit is such a dogmatic disaster that I would beg on the streets rather than claim it. But that's a political disaster, not an IT disaster.
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Tuesday 9th October 2018 12:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
He wasn't responsible for UC delivery!
Universal Credit was owned by the DG for Universal Credit - Neil Couling. He had a multi disciplinary team which made all of the decisions regarding UC Technology, despite Mayank constantly trying to interfere.
The core problem is that the politicians only care about Policy delivery rather than investing in technology, thus it's a rats nest of old systems and infrastructure.
Good luck to any poor sap that picks this up!