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Welcome to the section of the CIO site for all IT Professionals in the public sector.

Latest news

Last chance to book for Annual Conference!
We have now added a new workshop session to the IT Profession Conference “Transforming Professionalism” which will take place on 30-31 October in the Queens Hotel, Leeds:

• Business Analysis – a bridge between “the Business” and IT – James Archer, Business Analyst, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Places are booking up fast. Don’t miss your chance - the deadline for booking is Tuesday 30 September.

• Details and Booking Form

New Director for Government IT Profession

26/08/08
Lesley Hume has been appointed the new Director of the Government IT Profession and will take up her post in October.

• More details

Transformational Government Annual Report 2007
Updated charts to support the publication of the Transformational Government Annual Report 2007 are available on this website

• Percentage of public sector organisations working with IT Profession Pie Chart
• Registrations of interest per sector Pie Chart
• Members of the IT Profession per sector Pie Chart

Register with the IT Profession now!
Register your interest in the Government IT Profession to ensure you are kept up to date with news and information.

The Government IT Profession
The Government IT Profession brings together all IT professionals working across the UK public sector: UK government departments and agencies, local government, the emergency services and specialist deliverers such as the health sector. It includes everyone from new entrants through to the members of the Chief Information Officer Council.

The Head of Profession is John Suffolk, Kate Silver leads the IT Profession Team, based in the Cabinet Office. The Government IT Profession forms the foundation upon which the government’s IT Centre of Excellence is built and is a leading contributor to the Professional Skills for Government agenda.

More information on the IT Profession is at About the Government IT Profession.

Services for Government IT Profession users

• The Competency framework: assess your skills with these tools
• Training and Development: find out about courses delivered through the IT Academy and by other providers
• Forthcoming programme: come and meet us at events we organiser or take part in
• People Charter: outlines our commitments to you and what we expect you to do.
• Job vacancies page: find out about exciting opportunities to work in government IT.