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Non-transactional services: measuring the unmeasurable
The service I’ve been working on for the past few months is a bit different to most government services: it doesn’t involve any transactions.
Building diverse, inclusive, brilliant teams
I’d like to take the opportunity to explain why diversity matters so much for us at Justice Digital & Technology, and what we are doing to create a more inclusive team that better represents our users.
Game of Standards - making the Digital Service Standard fun
We’ve recently rolled out a new model for helping our teams meet the Digital by Default service standard.
Celebrating our LGBTQ* community at Bletchley Park
To celebrate the first anniversary of our LGBTQ* community at the Ministry of Justice we took a trip to Bletchley Park; home of the WWII codebreakers and where Alan Turing famously broke German ciphers. Turing was a gay man who was …
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.