We have now completed the work to allow more flexible curation of documents into "document series". It's a big change, and should mean that you can make much better use of this format to group related content for your users. …
Here are some of the biggest things we're working on in the GOV.UK government team this sprint: Allow multiple HTML documents on one publication: before now, HTML documents behaved differently from other attachments on a publication page. You couldn't order …
We've made some big changes to the government publisher today, with the aim of making life easier for editors and improving the quality of publishing on gov.uk/government. Firstly, there are 3 new filters on the left hand side of the …
Many government departments use Citizen Space to host online consultations. We think this is great because we want to encourage running consultations online - and it’s worth mentioning that there are other online participation tools, e.g. SurveyMonkey, for which the …
Usually, users want to see the latest and most up to date information on a given policy, announcement, consultation etc. But they may also want to know how it has changed. We have this information, because our publishing tool requires …
We keep hearing from our editors that you'd like a more flexible document series. At the moment, you can add a title and a summary to a document series, but the documents themselves are automatically grouped by content type and …
Reviewing detailed guides Before we begin the agency transition, GDS has been reviewing the detailed guidance format. We’ve looked closely at the performance data, talked to departments about how they use it, and carried out user testing to see how …
Consultations was one of the themes of our sprint for the government team this fortnight. This included implementing designs that make it clearer what stage a consultation is at (e.g. open, closed and analysing responses, outcome). Feedback vs Outcome We've also tried …
This fortnight, the sprint themes for the government section are going to be…. 1. Preparing for all ALB consultations to be on GOV.UK GDS and departments have agreed, in consultation with the Consultation Principles Review team, that all central government …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.