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 ...
