The prison visits team has been working on the Welsh language version of a new public service. Find out how we tested Welsh content as a team without a Welsh speaker. Getting Welsh language support Visit someone in prison is …
To coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, I'm delighted to share the experience of my team's apprenticeship journey. Rewind to my school days, when the notion of apprenticeships was confined to specific trades and the belief that university was the ultimate …
I was recently fortunate enough to visit HMP Highpoint to see a fully operational ‘Prison Industry’ digital workshop, where old or end-of-life printers are taken to be dismantled and recycled. HMP Highpoint is a category C training and resettlement prison, …
For the past year, the Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney (MLPA) team has considered its approach to the Welsh language. Here they share what they’ve learnt from testing Welsh content, and challenges they need to solve in the run-up to …
I was excited (and slightly daunted) to be asked to speak in the ‘Walk in our Users Shoes’ series as part of the recent 'Transforming with Digital' campaign. As a user researcher, the opportunity to walk in users shoes is …
Data is at the heart of the Ministry of Justice’s work. It helps us to measure the impact of policy interventions, gives us operational insight into prisons and probation, and gives us insights which help us to deliver better services …
On 22 March 2023, the Future of Life Institute published a letter calling on AI labs to immediately pause training AI systems that were more powerful than GPT-4. To date, there have been 33,709 signatories. Why? Because of the widespread …
Any service can face a number of threats. A way to surface these is to run through a threat modelling assessment. Running through the process can help to prioritise and make decisions based on data the output gives us. There …
From Justice Digital, Policy, and beyond, we have been uniting forces in an exciting ‘Transforming with Digital’ collaboration campaign co-sponsored by Gina Gill (CDIO) and Jerome Glass (DG Policy). The world is changing - fast. Earlier this month the UK …
Introducing Tripods This blog explores the transformative impact of 'Tripods', a novel approach that connects Delivery Managers from other government departments. They meet regularly to share experiences and support each other. It’s a small idea that’s had a big impact …
This blog post highlights how, at the MoJ Digital, we took a collaborative, open, and evidence-based approach to help keep people safe online. Let us rewind Back in March 2020, I identified a high-risk gap in the service where users …
