What is a spending review? It’s no secret that in 2024 there will be a General Election, and after that a spending review. A spending review is how HM Treasury decides how to distribute the total amount of money the …
“For the MoJ to thrive as an organisation, it must reflect the society it serves at every level” - MoJ Social Mobility Strategic Plan 2019-2022 At the heart of the MoJ is the belief that diverse backgrounds can bring fresh …
The Content Hub is basically a restricted and secure intranet created, designed, developed and written solely for the prison estate. It's the only 100% prisoner-facing service in MOJ Digital and Technology. In developing it, we've been constantly awake to the …
Today is Monday 17th January 2022. Today marks almost one year to where I was in the worst state of depression I had been in some time. Today is not Blue Monday. Blue Monday is a marketing ploy. In 2005, …
In the Content Hub team's first blog, we talked about research we did into Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) that informed the very specific content created to launch the Hub into HMYOI Cookham Wood. In this second blog, we're talking about …
When I first started my career in ‘IT’ as a manual system tester, Business Analysis seemed like an unwieldy beast. Waterfall was the name of the game and if you didn't know it upfront, it was too late. Business Analysis …
I started working for MoJ in 1993 as an AA/Band F and am now a G6, I have had a variety of operational and corporate HQ roles. I stayed because I loved what I was doing and I can honestly …
“It’s horrible, being called an ex-offender. It’s a label that you can’t peel off.” The quote above came from a person speaking at a support group. It’s a reminder that it matters how we talk about people. The words we …
In July 2021 the Content Hub team in Sheffield were thrilled to go LIVE into HMYOI Cookham Wood, a Young Offenders' Institution (YOI) in Rochester, Kent for boys aged 15 to 18. This will be followed by rollout to the …
Content design is a collaborative discipline, so when you’re the only content designer in your digital team, it can be lonely. You don’t have that content buddy to bounce ideas off, get a second pair of eyes on your work …
I started out as a linguist. I remember when I was at school, whenever people would ask me what I wanted to do and my answer was “languages”, they always asked, “Oh, do you want to be a bilingual secretary?”. …
