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How we're saving money and supporting prisoners
At Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), we’re building straightforward, effective digital services to support reform, save money and increase safety in UK prisons.
Why we're creating IT policy in the open
At the Ministry of Justice we code in the open by default. Increasingly, we write IT Policy in the open too. We apply the tenth GDS design principle: improving our IT Policy in the open to make it better.
Using textual analysis to build better services
Earlier this year the Government Digital Service (GDS) ran a discovery on collecting information from users of services across government.They identified an opportunity to make it easier for service teams to improve and publish accessible forms. Following GDS’ findings, we …
Increasing trust in criminal evidence with blockchains
Over the last couple of years, there has been a huge amount of interest in blockchains - the technology underpinning electronic currencies such as Bitcoin. While most development has been in the private sector, we’re keen to explore their potential …
Try before you apply: prototyping policy
Digital teams often make prototypes when designing services. They offer a quick, cost-effective way to explore different designs and processes. Prototyping can also help policy teams understand the impact of their policies and how they can be translated into delivery …
Our diversity statistics
Our CDIO Tom Read recently spoke about why diversity matters to us, and what we're doing to encourage and develop this.
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 …