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Getting the apprenticeship service through private beta

Posted by: Vanessa Clynes, Posted on: 26 January 2017 - Categories: Service design
Some of the Skills Funding Agency team

...GDS to get the apprenticeship service to this stage and how we’ll incorporate feedback in public beta. The apprenticeship service Apprenticeships raise skill levels and deliver strong returns for the...

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Designing the Scottish government’s service standard assessments

Posted by: Katy Hindmarsh, Posted on: 9 August 2016 - Categories: Service design

I’m Katy. I’m currently working in the Digital Public Services and Business Transformation Division as part of the Scottish government’s Graduate Development Programme.

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Digital Marketplace: building a digital by default service

Posted by: Ivanka Majic, Posted on: 19 November 2014 - Categories: Digital Marketplace, Service design
Digital Marketplace

...its design and build. All new or redesigned digital services being built in government need to meet the digital by default service standard. Services processing or likely to process over...

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Learning from assessments

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 8 August 2013 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

We've learnt a lot about assessing services over the last few months. James Kemp, acting Service Manager for passport appointment booking at HM Passport Office, attended one of the early assessments and we asked him to write about the experience. …

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