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A visitor monitoring system can help officers improve the overall visitor experience for family members. This is also the aim of the Invisible Wall scheme, which is aimed at trying to maintain links between inmates at Winchester prison and their families. Along with courses to improve parenting skills, the service also runs days where families […]

Fully automated time and attendance systems can help alert managers when staffing levels are expected to go under a pre-set level – for example, when workers decide to go on strike. That’s exactly the case with NHS staff from nine unions that staged a 4-hour strike over pay yesterday. The workers, including midwives, paramedics and […]

Biometric access control systems are starting to become the solutions of choices for organizations looking to implement a fast, reliable and secure means of restricting and securing building access and authenticating identity. Despite being faster and cheaper to deploy, traditional access control methods, such as security guards, RFID cards, PINs, key badges, and electronic locks, […]

British Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners are extremely confident about their five-year growth prospects, with a fifth saying that their businesses had never been in better shape, a recent survey was able to reveal. The annual business growth survey by Santander Corporate & Commercial bank suggested that businesses with an annual turnover of up […]

Smart personnel management systems can help boost employee productivity by providing unprecedented insight into employee’s performance and enabling managers to take the right decisions based on factual data. In fact, offering employees the option of gaining performance-related pay is one way to increase workplace productivity in the UK, according to a paper by the Centre […]

The number of new homes registered in the UK increased by 14% for the rolling quarter December to February compared to the same period last year, figures from a new report released by the NHBC have revealed.

There were 1.55 job seekers competing for each advertised vacancy in the UK in February 2014, 35% lower than in February 2013, a recent market research report has revealed.

Business investment continued to increase in Q4 2013 against a backdrop of falling insolvency rates and improved business confidence amongst UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which also led to a boost in average salaries in the sector.

Firefighters called in to tackle a potentially dangerous fire at a factory workshop in Totton were forced to take serious protective measures in order to deal with toxic fumes generated by epoxy resin.

The large majority of employers across the UK (76%) have implemented no practical measures in order to prepare for the introduction of shared parental leave in six months time, figures from a new market survey by Norton Fulbright have revealed.

British small and medium enterprises are the most confident in Europe and plan to invest and push for growth, results published in the latest European SME Capex Barometer have revealed.

A Cambridgeshire football club has set up a webcam allowing fans to keep up to date with the progress on the development of one of the stadium’s stands.