Defra is counting contractors like sheep
The UK agriculture department is"working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.from the Public Accounts Committee , which also disclosed that two-thirds of Defra's interactions with its 21 million customers still required paper-based forms.
The PAC said that in adapting to recover from its legacy backlog, Defra is"over-reliant on contractors because it struggles to recruit and retain the people with the digital skills it needs." The PAC also found Defra did not have a strategy or vision needed for its long-term digital transformation and recommended it create one.
It did not detail how many legacy applications the department continued to run or when it would migrate or retire them.
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