Thanks Steve, that's interesting.
How many councils did you speak to?
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Thanks Steve, that's interesting.
How many councils did you speak to?
It's a great start, and it would be good to see something more adaptive as the next iteration.
Many services such as booking a tip slot or to register a birth include additional steps.
Something that generates an initial pattern based on the type of service would be good to see.
That's a shame. How did you work out the rates of pay including on-costs, and hours contributed, of everyone in every department or organisation working on a design system please?
Are you able to publish your economic analysis please?
Putting the need to present a joined-up view of government services using common styles and elements aside for a minute, on your question of time, one could ask, what's more of a waste:
1️⃣ Trying to funnel every single thing into one design system
2️⃣ The creation of tens of similar design systems
Yes, some will be department specific, but In some cases these are common components:
design-system.service.gov.uk/components/n...
design.homeoffice.gov.uk/design-syste...
design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/components/a...
Even the terminology "notification banner" vs "alert" is different.
Many departments seem to have their own design system. I found a list here: github.com/ctdesign/gov...
I recently saw a sign on the Elizabeth Line requesting passengers turn off their WiFi if they didn't want their data collected.
Not sure how that implied consent sits with GDPR?
There's actually a page on TfL's website about data collection: tfl.gov.uk/corporate/pr...
Interesting to read in this @local.gov.uk report that #localgov IT/Digital departments are most likely to lead on digital inclusion.
Is this the right place in your view?
www.local.gov.uk/publications...
It's easy to imagine a conspiracy, when the real answer is sometimes just greed.
It's a good reminder to me that if you specify why a service should be delivered but not how, you'll potentially end up with a multitude of ways, which can be confusing to the service user.
Despite there being a National Proof of Age Standards Scheme, each of these providers seem to have a different application process, ranging from printing off a PDF, to being able verify existing ID digitally.
www.pass-scheme.org.uk/card-supplie...
Come join @rumens.uk and me at GDS Local as our Senior Delivery Manager.
Closing date: 9 Feb
Location: Bristol, London, Manchester.
Help us bridge central and local gov digital to create seamless experiences for users.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
I hear it suggests frequently used words
Interested, but not on a Saturday.
The Roadmap for Modern Digital Government has a commitment that GDS works with #localgov to co-create a vision including shared products and components of a technology stack.
If this is of interest to you what are your thoughts?
roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/join-up-serv...
Wish I could be at #ukgc26 today. If you are, do post and blog about it, to share the innovation and collaboration across the internet.
That makes sense, because Greggs are bakers.
There are many Christmas songs but very few Easter songs.
Why is that?
You'd like £200k to make an advert featuring a talking dog?
An interesting development, because Denmark is often held up as an example doing digital government well, which as I understand it started with Digital Post, and I guess might have been a contributing factor in the demise of letters.
en.digst.dk/systems/digi...
Whilst this serves as a good example, it's unlikely a small team in the digital centre of government could transform 1,000 local public services.
Perhaps what's needed is a fundamental change in the relationship between central and local, to rethink how public services are delivered digitally?
Do take a look at MHCLG's Open Digital Planning opendigitalplanning.org or DfE's plans for a Digital Centre of Excellence for how this could be done differently by central and local government.
You're right, the big picture should be services not systems, but one part of this is ensuring we have the technology required to enable the delivery modern local public services, hence the focus of that blog post.
For the past 11 years I've been keeping an index of posts about #localGDS / #GDSLocal. I've just added the first for 2025, which is probably most significant.
"People across UK to benefit from easier access to local services as councils get digital boost"
github.com/LocalGovDigi...
#localgov
Great piece. You reference reasonable adjustment, and it would be good to expand on that with some positives alongside the risks.
For example AI notetakers can make roles including in social care more accessible to those with dyslexia.
A sign reading Welcome to Leeds Station.
Hello Leeds, it's been a while.
That's true, although I think both are in it?
There's an episode of Map Map on London's unfinished motorways.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEH...
I wrote something about a sourcing a #localgov tech stack.
technology.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/07/s...