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Yes / No Minister: how tax tribunals kept momentum when the goalposts moved
Our job was to deliver a new online service helping people appeal to the tax tribunal once fees were introduced.
Guest post: Prison register goes into alpha
Since November, Richard Carling from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has been working with the Government Digital Service’s registers team to create a prison register.
Working here is quite addictive ...
Like most digital and technology teams in government we find recruitment a challenge.
Why we code in the open
At the Ministry of Justice, we code in the open, by default. This means whenever we write software, we make our source code available to anyone and everyone.
Family separation: what’s GOV got to do with it?
The start of the year is sometimes known as Divorce January due to the rise in enquiries about separation that happens after the holidays.
A principled approach to development
As organisations which deliver software grow, there’s a very common need to define what they see as best practice for software development.
10 things you don't normally see at a tech conference
We recently attended the Lesbians Who Tech summit, an event that brings together the community of queer* women working in technology.
Technical series: guidance for evaluating a new technology
In my first blogpost I explained why technological diversity is a good thing. However, it is important to evaluate new technologies to make experiments less risky.
Justice and the Geek Girls
As part of our commitment to making our digital and technology teams more representative of the general population and the people we build services for (we call this normalising) we pitched to host the annual Geek Girl conference; a network run …
Technical series: Why technological diversity is a good thing
This is the first in a series of technical blogposts we would like your feedback on. Let us know what you think and what you’d like to hear more about.