GOV.UK blogs

Updating GOV.UK’s crown

We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.

Cyber security for schools – the benefits of the risk protection arrangement (RPA)

All school leaders, trustees, headteachers and governors are responsibility for making sure measures are in place that will help reduce the risk of a cybercrime.

Cross sector action to improve support for children in complex situations

As joint authors of this blog, Justin, John and Professor Chitsabeasan share an update on action being taken from across the sector to improve support for children and young people in complex situations with multiple needs. 

Spotlight on talent development: Meet Fast Streamer Ophir Edelstein

In the latest from our series focusing on stories from colleagues who are employed on our talent programmes, we hear from Ophir Edelstein reflects on her first placement as a Technology Innovation Consultant on the Civil Service Fast Stream. 

Making ‘Great’ services: what is the Top75?

Government committed to getting 50 of the Top 75 services to a ‘great’ standard by 2025 in the roadmap for digital and data. Read more about why 75 and what transforming government services actually means.

How our Domains Data Sharing beta aims to reduce domain vulnerabilities

Every organisation has vulnerabilities in its digital infrastructure, including in its Domain Name System (DNS). In the Protecting Public Sector Domains team in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) we work to identify and fix those vulnerabilities before our …

Low Earth Orbit: The Future to Keeping Sailors Connected

Within the rapidly evolving landscape of maritime technology, the introduction of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems is projected to be a game-changer for the Royal Navy, particularly for our sailors, as it enables them to stay connected. Most notably, …

Meet the Modern Civil Service: Jenny Brooker

  Hello! Welcome to the fourth interview in the Meet the Modern Civil Service series. The aim of this series is to showcase the people in the civil service who are innovating change, whether that be through being a learning champion, …

How has the NLW affected pay differentials within firms?

Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University Sam Ray-Chaudhuri, Institute for Fiscal Studies Xiaowei Xu, Institute for Fiscal Studies February 16, 2024 The introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) in April 2016 marked the start of a series of increases in the …

We Are Strategic Command with Lieutenant Commander Susan Jeffreys

Lieutenant Commander Susan Jeffreys, Innovation Scout in jHub Med, talks about what led her from a career as an Intensive Care Nurse to a life of innovation in Defence.   Interviewer: Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your …

Commander British Forces Gibraltar meet and greet

Commander British Forces Gibraltar, Commodore Tom Guy, recently hosted three members of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment following their success in the Army Judo Championships. Major Dayan Pozo, Warrant Officer Class 2 Ethaniel Jeffries-Mor and Corporal Bradley Morris-McKenzie participated in the …

2023 summer interns - supporting visit by international delegations

Ramaya writes about working in the GDS Comms team and how it led to supporting visits by delegations from Ukraine and the Czech Republic

Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 7

With innovative ideas comes bold pitches and fiery questioning. This week’s episode of Dragons' Den was no exception, with electric car chargers, sweet snacks and even pet-edible cards brought into the Den. Read on to find out more.

Super-Sized Space Debris

Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission is set to launch soon. Learn why tackling large items of space debris is so important.

Working to Improve Lincolnshire’s Chalk Streams

As a Catchment Coordinator for the Environment Agency, my role is quite varied. I develop projects to improve our rivers with partner organisations, I support local catchment partnerships - groups of organisations that come together to improve the water environment …

Local strategies, national ambitions: how Local Nature Recovery Strategies are helping us achieve our national environmental targets

In this blog, Julian Harlow, head of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies policy team in Defra, tells us how these local strategies are helping us to achieve our national environment targets.

Response to Times article on housing

While we are pleased that today’s leading article in the Times leading article welcomes Tuesday’s announcement to shake-up planning rules to boost housebuilding on brownfield sites, we disagree with its assessment that it does not go far enough to deliver …

Porlock Vale Streams Riverlands Project offers nature-based solutions to climate change

The National Trust, in partnership with the Environment Agency, are continuing work on the Porlock Vale Streams Riverlands (PVSR) Project on Holnicote Estate, West Somerset, and recently completed the River Aller Floodplain Reconnection scheme. The project started in 2018 under …

Joining-up Whitehall with local places

Senior Civil Servant Ben Greener from Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities writes about how working with citizens in local places has strengthened his policymaking practice.

Delinked payments guidance: information about transferring reference data

RPA is replacing the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in England with delinked payments in 2024. The 2023 scheme year was the last year of BPS. Delinked payments will be paid each year from 2024 to 2027. We plan to make advance …

RAF Gibraltar's Valentine's Day FOD PLOD

Yesterday, 14 February 2024, several members of RAF Gibraltar and the No.2 Overseas Gibraltar Squadron attended a special Valentine’s Day FOD PLOD to help clean up the Eastern Beach side of the Gibraltar runway. In aviation and aerospace, the term …

Gibraltar Defence Police Chief of Police Commendation

Police Constable (PC) Christopher Gomez was recently presented with a Chief of Police's Commendation at Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) Headquarters .   On the 5 September 2023, PC Gomez was on duty at the Airfield when he heard a radio …

The evolution of the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund

Author: Sarah Staniland This week the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) has reached a major milestone of funding over 100 innovative projects from across the public sector. Launched in 2021, the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund has supported exciting projects …

Space medicine for the future of space exploration

How a team at the University of Nottingham is working to ensure the health of astronauts on long space missions.

Making sense of the standards landscape

Having taken over as the Chair of CSPL, I have looked back at how and why the standards landscape in the UK has evolved as it has. That reading quickly highlights the major role that the Committee has played in establishing much of the standards scene that we now take for granted.

Improving the accuracy of the Companies House register

We'll soon start to use our new and enhanced powers to query information and request supporting evidence. Over time this will lead to more accurate and trusted information on the register.

OPSS 2024 - 2025 Year in Industry Programme

Are you studying Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, English, History, Politics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Science or Law with a one-year industrial placement to start in September 2024?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Connecting to communities through policy making

Sheffield is home to the first government Policy Campus outside of Whitehall. As part of the Places for Growth programme, the Civil Service is delivering a range of Government Hub sites across the UK as well as relocating 22,000 roles …

A test and trials spotlight: Weald to Waves

Farmers and land managers participating in Weald to Waves share their experiences of taking part in tests and trials. The test is part of a wider project, led by Knepp Estate, which aims to build a wildlife corridor stretching from Ashdown Forest to the Sussex coast. Along the way, they share with us how they brought together farmers on the route to develop group agreements, management plans and funding mechanisms for the corridor.

Join the GSE Connect scheme

Following on from our successful 'Women in Leadership' event to celebrate the UN's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the GSE Women’s Working Group are pleased to launch the next round of GSE Connect. GSE Connect is a …

Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Head of capability, Aesha Zafar reflects on National Apprenticeship Week and the vital role apprentices play at DWP Digital.

Extramural Studies Placement at the VMD 2024

This post was originally published by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate. We are delighted to launch the 2024 VMD extramural studies placement. We would like to invite veterinary students who are in their final two years of study to attend a …

Med Tech Regulatory Reform: The first steps towards a new framework for medical devices in the UK

On 9 January 2024, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published its Roadmap for the delivery of the future regulatory framework for medical devices. In the first of a new blog series, Laura Squire, Med Tech Regulatory Reform …

How we’re using the power of the courts to clamp down on illegal felling

Jonathan Tizzard, an Enforcement Investigator for the Forestry Commission, talks about the first ever Restocking Order after conviction as a Magistrates Court orders a landowner to replant a site of illegal felling.

Mind Your Head 2024

This week, 12-16 February 2024, is the Farm Safety Foundation’s (Yellow Wellies) seventh annual Mind Your Head campaign. Yellow Wellies is an independent registered charity covering the whole of the UK, set up in 2014 to raise awareness of farm …

Working with us: Join the TRA legal team

Applications for a Grade 6 senior trade remedies lawyer are now open and we asked one of our Junior lawyers to tell us more about the legal team and what working at the TRA is like. Being a lawyer at …

Six months is not a long time in space

Six months into the role of Deputy CEO, as jobshare with Annelies Look, Chris White-Horne looks back on their time at the UK Space Agency so far.

Celebrating support workers

Support workers are the backbone of health and social care organisations, providing year-round care for service users, patients and residents. Leanne Flint joined Cygnet Healthcare as a support worker in 2008. Here, she writes about the training and personal development which has helped her progress.

Gibraltar Defence Police Recruits Successfully Complete Training in the UK

Three Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) recruits recently returned to Gibraltar after completing their initial 12-week police training at Southwick Park, UK, with the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP). This milestone marks the end of an intensive training programme, aimed at …

Spotlight on updates and additions to livestock and grassland offer

Over the past few weeks, we've summarised the updates to our environmental land management offer by farm type. These posts follow last month's Agricultural Transition Plan update. In this post, we’ll focus on the updated offer for livestock and grassland farmers.