We're pleased to announce the launch of a private beta of two new council-led digital planning products, funded by MHCLG's Local Digital Fund. This is an exciting step towards 21st Century digital planning systems that use data and human-centred design ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Earlier this year, we launched a library of online training courses to support our local government colleagues to learn and develop their digital skills while working remotely. A core part of this training offer is a selection of funded courses: ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Simon Bourne, the Home Office's new Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer, shares his vision for delivering better, simpler and more streamlined digital services to end users.
Chief digital and technology officer, Emma Stace, sets out our digital and technology ambitions and priorities - being responsive to learners' needs, running the business, reducing burdens and always raising standards.
We're currently working to add a new point on sustainability to the Technology Code of Practice. We're adopting a user-led and iterative approach to policy to ensure the new point is as useful and effective as possible.
Adding a 'show password' option to GOV.UK accounts looked like a straightforward task, but it was more interesting and complicated than we expected.
The launch of the first six apprenticeships arising from the work on the digital route review has been eagerly awaited and I am happy to say we can now publish details. The apprenticeships in question and arrangements are as follow ...
This past year has been incredibly challenging for all of us. As we emerge from our third lockdown and reflect on how life has changed, I am so proud of all that has been achieved across the agriculture, environmental and ...
Jen Staves explains how the DfE content design community of practice used evidence to build their roadmap, and shares a useful 10-point guide for how you can do the same with your community.
Charlotte Sides launched her career as a software engineer on the Home Office Digital Career Development Programme. Read about her journey here. Applications for the Programme are now open.
When a pull request failed because of an incorrect creation date, the GOV.UK Pay team investigated the cause. Here's how they found and fixed the bug.
If you're in the public sector and are working on APIs, find out more about our API Community of Practice and attend our upcoming event.
During the cyber security discovery last year, we identified five areas of opportunity for MHCLG to support councils in improving their cyber health. One of these areas was technical remediation: providing support to councils identified through the survey on mitigating ...
Rehearsing for incidents with replica environments to perform hands on investigations takes a lot of setting up. The GOV.UK Platform as a Service team wanted to see if they could get a lot of the value with a reduced amount of setup time and cost.
In June 2020 the Local Digital Cyber team completed a discovery into cyber security at local authorities. We found that: There are many cyber standards, but no clear baseline. An effective cyber baseline must encompass culture, leadership and 'cyber first' ...
Since 2018, the Local Digital Collaboration Unit (LDCU) has funded 35 projects through multiple phases of work and across five rounds of funding - including our relatively recent C-19 Challenge. Through the Local Digital Fund, we've given out nearly £5 ...
