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Adding sustainability to the Government Design Principles

We’re adding a new design principle for sustainability. This will help teams take responsibility and ownership for the sustainability of services.

Addressing the gaps in service delivery content

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Our mission: Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is redesigning the products and services we provide to other government departments to support the delivery of their services. This includes updating existing standards and guidance, so that more services are implemented …

Enabling delivery teams to understand and apply the Government Service Standard

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Kerry, a content designer from DFE, describes her work with service assessors and teams across the department to ensure that the government Service Standard and collective community standards can be found, understood and applied. 

How we’re improving the Service Manual’s guidance and navigation

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The Service Manual team shares how they worked with cross-government communities of practice on guidance and used a design sprint to improve navigation.

What we’re doing to make the Service Manual community-led

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In this blog post, the team behind the Service Manual gives an update on their work and how they collaborate with cross-government communities.

Taking a community-led approach to the Service Standard and Service Manual

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The Service Standard and Manual have been around since 2013 and continuously evolved since then. In summer 2020, a new team started taking things into a new direction. In this blog post, they share what they have learned in recent months and why the future is community-led.

Not meeting the Service Standard doesn’t mean you failed

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Service assessments ensure that a digital service is meeting the points of the Service Standard. But there have been times when services have not met the standard. That doesn’t mean failure. This blog post discusses the opportunities and support available for service teams.