ALL THINGS LICENSING Digital driving licence coming this year
The UK government is launching a
GOV.UK Wallet and app to simplify access to services and documents such digital driver’s licences, alongside reforms to public sector technology to save £45 billion and drive efficiency and growth.
In her update, she also said: “And I can announce new action today to help victims get more investigations and prosecutions underway.
“I am extending the remit of the independent Child Sexual Abuse Review Panel so it covers not just historic cases before 2013, but all cases since so that any victim of abuse will have the right to seek an independent review without having to go back to the local institutions who decided not to proceed with their case.
“I am writing today to the National Police Chiefs Council to ask all chief constables to look again at historic gang exploitation cases where ‘No Further Action’ was taken, and work with the police Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce to pursue new lines of inquiry and re-open investigations where approp- riate and these new measures will be backed by £2 million of additional funding for the taskforce and the panel.
“And all police forces will be expected to implement the 2023 recommendations from His Majesty’s Inspectorate, including producing ‘problem profiles’ on the nature of grooming gangs in their area. And I have asked the Inspectorate to review progress this year.”
The licensed trade will be aware of terrible events in some areas including Rotherham, Oxford and Telford where young people were exploited, with the licensed trade implicated or at least complicit in many cases. This led to many local authorities adopting a requirement for all drivers to complete safeguarding awareness training in order to be able to confidently spot potential concerns and be able to report them.
The launch of yet another enquiry is however worrying considering most local authorities have training policies in place and we will wait to see what further recommendations may emerge to ensure that young and vulnerable persons are adequately protected.
PHTM MARCH 2025
A mobile driver’s licence will be one of the first digital documents in a
GOV.UK Wallet launched later this year and will ultimately allow people to prove their age from their phone in shops or online, the Science Secretary Peter Kyle announced in late January.
It comes alongside other new and improved ways for people to interact with government digitally, with an expansive blueprint for how the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), which will now be home to a revamped Government Digital Service (GDS), will use digital tools and data to transform public services and help the taxpayer benefit from £45 billion in efficiency savings – essential to delivering Labour’s Plan for Change.
The
GOV.UK Wallet will allow users to securely store government-issued documents on their phone and use them easily when needed. The technology will make use of security features that are built into modern smart phones, including facial recognition checks similar to those used when people pay using a digital bank card. It means that digital documents will be more secure, even if a device is lost.
Science Secretary Peter Kyle said: “Along with CDs, the Walkman and flip phones, the overflowing drawer rammed with letters from the government and hours spent on hold to get a basic appointment will soon be consigned to history.
GOV.UK Wallet will mean that every letter or identity document you receive from the government could be issued to you virtually.
“For people who choose to use
GOV.UK Wallet, they will find it easier to prove they’re entitled to benefits or check their age when buying alcohol or DIY equipment, with more security and trust than ever before. Crucially, it also opens huge opportunities to make interacting with public services much easier by putting people in control of their own data.
“We will be overhauling how the public sector uses technology which is essential to delivering our Plan for Change, and in combination with this new tech for people to use themselves, we are going to slash the time people waste dealing with annoying processes so they can focus on what matters to them.”
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