In February, LGBTQ+ History Month prompts us to reflect on the progress we’ve made and the work still left to do. The UK has made remarkable progress in LGBTQ+ equality within living memory. Just decades ago, people like Alan Turing were criminalised, persecuted and driven to the …
Recently, the Information Services team, who have been working to deliver Court-finder and Tribunals Decisions Database (both available in public Beta) have re-invigorated their Agile approach in order to improve delivery of their products. As a result of the changes we've made, …
Last week MOJ Digital Services took part in the Public Sector Hackathon in London, and came second for an API! A ‘hackathon’ is an event in which developers get together - often over a long day or two - to …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
