Join us for Services Week 2026
Join us for Services Week 2026
Services Week 2026 will run from 29 June to 3 July. Learn about this year's theme and how to get involved.
How we write guidance for the Service Manual
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Joe Harrison and Louise Miller - Senior Content Designer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, Ways of working
...a range of different things from our guidance depending on their level of experience. People newer to government services or agile ways of working need: ways to get up to...
What we’re doing to make it easier to blog at GDS
...only include a selection of blog posts. However, we encourage authors to get in touch with the blog editors they worked on their posts with to find out how their...
10 May 2018: Sprint 18 live blog
If you didn’t get a chance to attend Sprint 18, make sure you read our live blog from the day. It includes a summary of what happened, photos, videos and tweets.
What’s coming up at Sprint 18
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Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
Sprint 18 is coming up in 1 week – on 10 May. Kevin Cunnington talks about the themes Sprint will focus on, and how they drive our work and our purpose – to help government work better for everyone.
We’re improving the digital and IT spend controls process
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Nic Harrison and Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
We are introducing a new approach to the spend assurance process for technology and digital services across government. Find out how and why we’re doing this.
Consultation launch: accessibility of public sector websites and apps
...it to: consultation-responses@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk Alternatively, you can send your response by post to: Accessibility team 7th Floor, The White Chapel Building 10 Whitechapel High Street London E1 8QS Please indicate in...
How we’ve made things simpler for suppliers on G-Cloud 10
...these National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) schemes: Cyber Security Consultancy Penetration Testing (CHECK) Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Suppliers can store info centrally To make things easier for suppliers, we’ve created...
GOV.UK: a journey in scaling agile
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Nick Tait - Head of Advisory, Government Digital Service, Alan Wright - former Lead Delivery Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Jen Allum - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Ways of working
Being agile doesn’t mean simply installing a methodology and then religiously sticking to that methodology. A little while ago we learned that we had a few challenges with GOV.UK delivery. So we had to adapt our approach. Here’s what we did and what we learned.
How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding
...colleagues who were interested in learning to code. As you would expect from the lead government department for digital policy, there was strong interest in learning to code at DCMS,...
Refreshing the Open Standards Principles
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Terence Eden - former Open Standards Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Transformation
...Strategy and the UK Digital Strategy. The updated version of the principles uses clearer language and clarifies several important points. The Cabinet Office mandates the use of the Open Standards...
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