A National Care Service, with equal status to the NHS, free at the point of delivery?
The importance of more effective collaboration with the third sector The Feeley report “Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland”, published in February 2021, proposes radical changes in the way adult social care is delivered. It recommends the continuation...
How SICCAR and Food Train support older people to live well at home
SICCAR, collaborating with Food Train, are developing solutions to reduce food insecurity among older people. Half a million people over sixty-five in the UK are diagnosed with malnutrition, with a further million being at risk. It is a hidden problem, with 93% of...
SICCAR “connects” with Par Equity to secure a £1.3m investment round
Scotland-based SICCAR, previously Wallet Services, connect organisations with reliable, protected data. The investment will strengthen its product development and customer teams as the company builds on its success in two industry sectors. SICCAR aim to empower...
Special Announcement from SICCAR’s CEO
2020 has been an uncertain period for us all. As we get used to the new normal, we wanted to take the opportunity to share with you all our new normal.Why?SICCAR is old scot’s for sure and trusted. With our mission to connect and protect business and society, we think...
SICCAR for cross-organisation collaboration
SICCAR aims is to connect and protect business and society.SICCAR enables organisations to share sensitive data through one trustworthy digital platform. Our platform addresses data sharing problems during interactions between organisations and supply chains as well...
Distributed citizen identity and the path to COVID recovery
For more than 400 years, since the setting up of bodies such as Registers of Scotland, governments have been trusted to manage our data – benefitting both citizens and businesses. These public registers record people’s key life events, from the birth of their children...
Why is cyber security so hard?
During lockdown, like most of us, I watched a lot of television. I re-watched some of the old Sci-Fi TV shows and films - Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape and Star Wars. One of the repeating themes is how bad security is. Anyone with a sonic screwdriver and access to a...
Wallet.Services Gains Second Microsoft Competency
Silver Cloud Platform (Ag)coladeWe are committed to our customers. That’s why we invest in making sure our people have the best skills and knowledge in the platforms we use to deliver SICCAR. Our team has been accredited in Azure Cloud Platform, which means we have...
What will future public services look like?
What will future public services look like?People won’t duplicate applications to public sector bodies to claim entitlements. They’ll have ‘smart entitlements’ - recognised and used by all service providers.The current state Different parts of the public sector find...