Handling prison visit requests: the inside story
We asked Peter Hickey, Head of Operations at HMP/YOI Rochester to give us the low-down on what it was like to be one of the first prisons in England and Wales to use the new online prison visits …
Getting together to talk digital
A couple of weeks ago the team here at MOJ DS hosted 'Sprint Justice', an interactive event about the future of digital in the justice sector. We had a fantastic turnout with over 200 delegates from MOJ, Whitehall and small and medium enterprises joining us to ‘talk digital’.
Portfolio management at MOJ Digital Services
Portfolio management is about allocating our resources to where they make the most difference to achieving our objectives, but of course this simple explanation hides a lot of complexity! One of the main things we do in the portfolio team …
Transitioning specialist content through an Agile methodology
A significant amount our work in DS is focused on specialist legal content. As part of the move to make justice services easy for citizens and business users to use, the content team here in DS is working alongside their …
Content design on the employment tribunals service
My first challenge as a new starter with MOJ Digital Services: improve content design for the employment tribunals (ET) exemplar. The exemplar is currently published as Beta , but as you’d expect from a Beta version, it needs some tweaking. Our primary …
Agile at MOJ Digital Services
I’m an Agile Coach and I wanted to share some of my recent experiences after taking up a new post at MOJ Digital Services following a stint working at GDS on the transition programme for GOV.UK. My agile approach Agile is the …
Managing the consistency challenge across MOJ services
As the number of projects that we’re working on began increasing, we realised that we needed a better way of managing dependencies and style consistency. Introducing the MOJ template The result has been that our frontend development team has created …
Corporate Services leading the way…
On Tuesday, individuals from across the MOJ's Corporate Services, including Estates, HR, Technology, Shared Services and Digital Services came together. All in attendance were leaders in some capacity, be it of teams, of areas, individual champions, line managers, middle managers or …
Finding a family court
...for a divorce, you can carry out a simple search like this: This will give you the court that deals with divorce applications for your postcode: We also created a...
Faster testing with VCR
Recently we have used VCR as part of our testing procedure for the court finder project. This has brought numerous benefits such as: increasing the adoption of sensible defaults and development of a common style of testing web services allowing …
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