This Parliament ends on 30 March. Between then and the general election on 7 May is the pre-election period and the Civil Service communicates less, in line with the General Election Guidance.
As Electoral registration today follows Lasting Power of attorney (LPA) in becoming a live exemplar, Chris Mitchell blogs about how LPA has led the pack in meeting the high standards required to reach this milestone... First of many Recently the …
Registered Traveller is a new service for frequent travellers coming to the UK who are citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Japan. By registering through this system beforehand, eligible travellers do not need to be processed through …
This is a post about an encounter with a service user that I wanted to share. For me, the meeting was a timely reminder of what working with departments on the transformation programme is all about. I’m lucky enough to …
Every month the transformation programme moves forward and more exemplars speed towards their live dates. To help demonstrate progress, new ways of working and approaches to service delivery, we’re encouraging departments to talk about their work, show the thing they’re …
Last week marked the end of a 6-week proof of concept at the Land Registry, supported by GDS. The aim was build a concept for a digital service focussed on user needs. The result was to be shown to staff …
I’m a bit slow off the mark with my regular update this time around but that’s not because of a dearth of things to write about - quite the opposite in fact! Starting with a quick round-up of progress across …
Hi, I’m Geoff Court and I’m the Service manager for Patent renewals at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). The service is one of the 25 exemplar digital services being transformed for the benefit of users. The IPO already has a …
I’m Jonny Cavell, Technical Lead for the Registered Traveller exemplar at the Home Office. This is a post about how we shared code between two exemplar projects – Visas and Registered traveller – the successes, the difficulties, and everything in between. …
Following the success of the Waste carrier registration exemplar service, the Environment Agency applied their new skills and ways of working to develop a digital service that helps anglers report their catch to government. The data gathered through the Rod …
The Ministry of Justice is home to four exemplar projects and MOJ Digital Services is working with GDS on the department’s digital transformation, building new user-focused digital public services. As we mentioned in our monthly highlights, the team recently hosted …