I have recently joined the Capability Team as the Learning and Development Lead. My career in the Civil Service began in HMCTS back in 1994 where I worked in Recruitment. As one of the only few women to wear a …
What is your role at MOJ? I’m a Content Designer and I’m responsible for creating content across end-to-end user journeys. It’s not just about writing words, it involves working with others to really understand the needs of users and build …
Digital strategies could learn a lot from Winston Churchill’s famous 1940 plea for brevity. In this spirit, I have decided to try to distill our MoJ digital strategy down into one short blog post. Firstly, a note on what our …
My name is Karen Minta. I joined the Civil Service about three months ago as a Business Manager in the Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology team. Carving the discourse surrounding Black British identity has always been a contested feature …
We recently contributed to the ‘Ask users for bank details’ pattern to the GOV.UK Design System, as a team of three: content designer (Amanda Kerry), interaction designer (Adam Silver) and user researcher (Gemma Hutley). Earlier this year, we worked on …
I work in MoJ’s User Centred Policy Design team. In spring 2018, the team and I started to look at the experience of people with legal issues and explore what support they needed to prevent their problems from escalating. This …
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Day, I wanted to share my personal story. If I were to tell you that I had an illness that affected only 2% of the population, which killed 1 in 10 of those who …
I’m Scott Colfer, Head of Product at MoJ and I’d like to tell you what product management means here. Our specialism is optimising the value of products. We take insights from a multidisciplinary team and look for value in the …
In March 2019 the former Prime Minister announced a new scheme to help with funeral costs for grieving parents who have lost their child. Under the scheme, parents will no longer have to meet the costs of burials or cremations. …
You’ve probably heard quite a lot about social mobility in the last few years. Is social mobility really that much of an issue for MoJ and all of us who work here? For me, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. …
When I’m asked ‘Why be a Diversity & Inclusion champion? One of my responses is Why not? My name is Faye Johnson-James and I am the Head of Strategic Risk Management within Technology Services which is part of MoJ …
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