The HTML curriculum
...2014 national curriculum, published yesterday by the Department for Education (DFE), are all in our HTML publications format. Our new, national curriculum-approved, style for displaying fractions It's a natively digital...
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Consultations: style and content format guidance (updated 9 April 2014)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. All government consultations must be accessible to the public and are in one place: on GOV.UK. The consultation principles review team …
GOV.UK for Citizen Space users
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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 …
How to request the removal of content
I am a member of the GOV.UK User Support team, responsible for improving the [government-only] support form (found at https://www.gov.uk/support/internal). Back in April, we described the process for removing content from the frontend. To make this process easier, we have now added …
The future of detailed guides
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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 …
Policy pages: a quick guide to responsibilities
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve had a few questions recently about levels of responsibility for policy pages on GOV.UK. So we thought we’d address them …
Top tasks: what you should feature on your organisation homepage
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’d like to bring a bit more consistency and user focus to the links in the top right-hand corner of organisation …
Caches, scheduled publishing and consultations (updated 7 May 2014)
...infrastructure from malicious attacks and to cope with peak demand. The default cache expiry on all existing pages in the government section is currently set to 15 mins. That means...
What file formats do we support?
...png ppt pptx rdf rtf txt xls xlsx xml zip It's likely we'll add more as needed, which means this blog post will date. But you can check the very...
Report a problem on Inside Government
...feedback form. It's positioned at the foot of the page, says 'Is there anything wrong with this page?' and looks like this: The mainstream section of GOV.UK has been running...
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Read about the GOV.UK app
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.