Technology

Looking for a career change? Go digital

The User Researcher Career Changer role, part of the Digital Development Programme at the Home Office, helped Huzna change careers and step into a digital role. Here's how she did it.

Updated: Mon Aug 09 2021

How we identify and mitigate single-points-of-failure (SPOF)

Do you get cold sweats brought on by the thought of losing one particular person from your team? Well, read on. Confession: I don't like the title of this blog post. Single-points-of-failure (SPOFs) are the people who have worked relentlessly ...

Updated: Tue Aug 03 2021

The night sky in August

If you've been thinking about trying a night of star-gazing, August is the perfect month to try.

Updated: Tue Aug 03 2021

New fund to enhance community engagement in planning

The Digital Planning team at MHCLG are delighted to announce the new PropTech Engagement Fund, set up to support the PropTech sector and local authorities to accelerate adoption of technology that will enhance community engagement and deliver a modern planning ...

Updated: Mon Aug 02 2021

New regulations mean lift-off for UK spaceflight

Every sector, from planes to trains to automobiles, is governed by an evolving set of laws and regulations within which it can grow safely, create commercial opportunities for investors and deliver better public services while keeping the environment safe as ...

Updated: Fri Jul 30 2021

The roadmap towards our mission

A couple of months ago I wrote about the MoJ Digital & Technology mission for this year. We have now completed the first quarter of the year (already!), and I thought I'd share just some of the great progress we've ...

Updated: Thu Jul 29 2021

Building and improving the Child Arrangements Service

The User Centred Policy Design ( UCPD) Cross Justice Delivery team said goodbye to the Child Arrangements Service at the end of March, and handed the service over to its new home in Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). ...

Updated: Wed Jul 28 2021

Activating our human firewall during Covid and beyond

My name is Dawn Carrington, and I am Security Culture Change Lead in the Digital and Technology team. For as long as I can remember I've wanted to do work that makes a positive impact in people's lives. At the ...

Updated: Tue Jul 27 2021

Transforming the way MHCLG delivers funding

Delivering funding to where it is needed most is a core mission of MHCLG. And we do lots of it - distributing £8.5bn in general grants in 2019/20 - to local authorities, charities and businesses across the UK. This ...

Updated: Thu Jul 01 2021

How we reduced errors on GOV.UK

All websites run into errors. We've reduced our errors by over 90% and changed our culture around errors so they are identified, owned and resolved quickly.

Updated: Mon Jun 28 2021

International Women in Engineering Day 2021

Today is International Women in Engineering Day. It's a day where we celebrate the amazing work of women within the engineering sector. According to the Engineering UK 2018 report, only 12% of all engineers in the UK are women. We ...

Updated: Tue Jun 22 2021

Meeting policy intent and user needs at the same time

In this post, aimed at product managers, Isabelle Andrews explains how her team adapted impact mapping to help align user and business needs. This technique kept them focused on what matters most.

Updated: Thu Jun 17 2021

Update on the engineering and manufacturing route review

I'm delighted to be able to provide an update on how we are moving forward with our engineering and manufacturing route review. 58 occupational standards, which set out the key knowledge, skills and behaviours employers expect to be covered by ...

Updated: Fri Jun 11 2021

The Institute talks...about green apprenticeships

You can subscribe to The Institute talks podcast on Amazon Music, Apple podcast, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. You can read transcripts for this podcast episode on Podbean. In this episode of The Institute talks, we talk about green apprenticeships. We are joined ...

Updated: Fri Jun 04 2021

Introducing a Head of Digital role to DfE

The last year has showed us that we need to change how we lead digital in our organisation. We've rearranged what we do into 5 areas of work and we've created a new role - Head of Digital. James Reeve explains more in this post.

Updated: Fri May 28 2021

Engineer your career at the Home Office

The Home Office is recruiting significant numbers of software engineers. Check out Civil Service Jobs to find out more or register for our live recruitment question and answer event on 12 May where you can meet our engineering team and learn more about the recruitment process.

Updated: Tue May 18 2021

Podcast: the first in our 'Think digital, act human' series

Emma Stace - chief digital and technology officer - gives her personal view on mental health during covid, and the conversations she's had about race in the past year. She also explains what service ownership and user-centred deign lab are and how these ways of working make such a difference.

Updated: Tue May 18 2021