GDS Local is a new unit within the Government Digital Service (GDS) that brings central and local government together to improve how digital public services are designed and delivered. Working alongside councils, we’re helping create services shaped around real lives—easier to use, better connected and built on proven digital foundations.
Phil Buckley, Product Manager of the Performance Platform, writes: I’m very proud to announce the latest release of the Performance Platform. Building on the performance statistics we have for GOV.UK, this release powers the dashboards for all the different Licences, …
David Thorpe writes in response to yesterday's report by Lord Young on support for smaller businesses. Yesterday Lord Young released Growing Your Business, the second instalment of his report on...
...helping SLC [Student Loans Company] select a technical transformation partner. So viewing supplier presentations, catching up with the good folks like Gordon Simpson and Tom Mead, and Martin Campbell up...
I’ve recently been embedded with the Inside Government team to work on understanding user behaviour through data analysis. One of my first tasks was to investigate the way that policies are being used and to identify any interesting or notable …
Highlights: A very big week, as we marked the 24th and last of the ministerial departments moving to Inside Gov. The numbers that describe the volume of activity over the last six months are incredible - and thanks go to …
We’re learning a lot about users as we work with more teams outside GDS. Jamie Trollope from the Customer Insight and Diversity Team at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) writes about what they’ve discovered during some recent user …
Earlier this week the the final ministerial department joined GOV.UK. This isn't the end of the GOV.UK story; in fact it's barely the end of the beginning. But today is still a big moment, the result of commitment and collaboration …
Launched on 17 October 2012, GOV.UK has just celebrated 6 months of being live. In that time it's received 188 million visits and 546 million pageviews; and over 9 million searches have been made on the site. But what was …
The Deputy Prime Minister's top priority is to get the country’s economy growing strongly and to make sure work pays. People should keep more of the money they earn, and our tax system should reward hard work.
Martha said we needed a revolution. As of this moment, 10 Downing Street, the Deputy PM’s office, all 24 of the UK's central government departments and its embassies around the world are now sharing a single, joined-up presence on the web at …
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