Labour plans a paperless society

[Reginald]

Face-to-face public service centres like jobcentres and passport offices could be scrapped in favour of websites within four years, the Prime Minister has said.

New plans to be unveiled next week aim to move all public services online within four years.

The plans could make face-to-face transactions a thing of the past – and could mean the end of hundreds of call centres and benefit offices.

Tens of thousands of public sector jobs could be scrapped in Jobcentres, passport centres and town halls as a result of the plans, which the government says will save £4 billion over four years.

Daily Mail

[Barry]

Which genius thought this one up 

Have they taken into account the people who don't have internet access?

What about the safety and security of the people and their details?

The government have a very poor history with computer systems, I think this
is just pre-election headline grabbing, they bunch of attention seekers 

[fred]

I see a flock of pigs

I remember a program called NOF, a government funded initiative to bring all teachers up to a notional standard of computer literacy.  I was and still am self taught. I learn what I need to.  Getting NOFFED involved a certain company getting paid a reported £400 per teacher where the teacher (rather than spending their time teaching) having half a day's training (I'd have been crucified if I did a lesson to the standard of the training) .  then filling in a 80 or 90 page tick  list of 'can do'.  then suplying two very basic (word file worksheet type) as evidence for doing it.   The staff rightly saw it as a joke when we got NOFFED.  I left out a couple of ticks just for the hell of it.  I'd been teaching how to word process, database and spreadsheet for years and had got to the stage that an unnotified change of platform and program was dealt with after a 20 min play before the first lesson

and the worst of it

they diverted lottery money to pay for it

[Barry]

fred, you have confirmed what I was thinking. This plan will go nowhere, it will just quietly fade away.