A Year of Covid-19
A Year of Covid-19
Hello everyone, my name is Gina Gill and I wanted to kick off my ‘Mini Blog Series’ by sharing my reflections on the last 12 months. My most enduring memory of the last year will be how it brought out …
Hello everyone, my name is Gina Gill and I wanted to kick off my ‘Mini Blog Series’ by sharing my reflections on the last 12 months. My most enduring memory of the last year will be how it brought out …
"Video calling for prisoners might well be the best thing to come out of COVID in prisons." Phil Copple Director General HMPPS The Coronavirus outbreak forced many people to get to grips with using video technology as a safe way …
Back in May 2019, we started to migrate “prison finder” pages from justice.gov.uk to the GOV.UK website. Our main goal was to make sure the content really worked for our users while also moving us closer towards turning off an …
I’m Sam, and I’ve just finished an 8-week internship, looking into social media security from my bedroom. I got this placement through the CyberFirst Bursary scheme (a government and industry backed initiative), which I applied to during my final year …
Starting a new job is quite a daunting experience at the best of times. Starting a job during a global pandemic is something else. That said, starting at Office of the Public Guardian Digital has been positive. Getting started One …
Form Builder is a platform built by MoJ Digital and Technology for creating and publishing accessible online forms using components from the GOV.UK Design System. As the platform is easy to use, our team was able to create, test and …
This year has been an unusual assortment of changes for everyone. Our work, social lives and pastimes have changed in ways that we never would have expected at the end of 2019. One of the unusual but pleasant experiences I …
On Monday 16th March 2020 everything changed! It was the day that we were officially told that due to Covid-19 we would be working from home for the foreseeable future. As a recruiter in a world where face-to-face interviews is …
June is Pride month, an important time of the year to promote the dignity, equality and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as a social group. It is also a time when LGBTQI allies, like me, need to …
Exploration ‘Pre-discovery’ has existed within digital teams for years. I first heard of ‘pre-discovery’ back in 2016 and didn’t understand what it meant. The following year I ran a review and retrospective of discovery across digital teams in government and …
This is the second part of this blog, which describes a systems mapping process undertaken by the User Centred Policy Design (UCPD) team in MoJ Digital in partnership with several policy teams working in the prison and probation space. While …
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