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.
Digital principles for a better GDS
We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.
GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
Equality and diversity matters a lot to me, and to everyone here at GDS. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago in my role as Cabinet Office LGB&TI...
Guest post: building a digital standard for local government
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Phil Rumens - Digital Services Manager, West Berkshire Council, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Service design
Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.
Let's talk about service patterns
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Lou Downe - former Director for Design and Service Standards, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Service design
...birth and death of cattle, movement of livestock, getting a fishing license - they all amounted to the same thing. They were all licenses, of a sort. They all involved...
Writing content for everyone
I work as a content designer on the Digital Marketplace and for over a year now, I’ve also been working as a volunteer in adult literacy classes. I’ve been using...
Hosting codebar at GDS
...up to go through tutorials or build projects over two hours in a variety of languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, and more. We received good feedback and we will now...
Transforming government together
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint
Every now and then we do well by taking stock of where we are and to map out the future. Sprint 16 was one of those moments.
11 February 2016: Sprint 16 live blog
Look back at #Sprint16 as it happened with the GDS live blog.
Notes from a Swedish explorer
...of doing things. When building the web development part of the new service we tried out agile methodologies and started to follow the GDS blog, - learning from GDS’s work...
A hack day to test Government as a Platform
Last week, GDS hosted a hack day for developers from across government.
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Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
Leading Government Digital and Data
