Today we’re releasing another stage in the alpha of the style guide. We’ve added 2 new sections, writing for the web and the style guide for services, to help content designers throughout government and new editors at arm’s length bodies. …
There has been a noticeable slowdown in the pace of new features on the departments and policy publishing platform. Not that we've been resting on our laurels, far from it. Instead we’ve taken a conscious decision to spend some time …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I'm John from DCLG and I work on curating the content which gets included in GOV.UK's daily email alerts for local …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Last week we introduced a new feature that allows users to preview any CSV file on GOV.UK. This means users can …
Back in October, Ben and Henry posted about planned changes to the Business and self-employed browse page. Testing revealed that on some things we achieved our goals - but in others we didn't, and we'll need to iterate further. So …
On Thursday 5 December, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be making his Autumn Statement to Parliament. It’s a significant event, around which several of us may be publishing content. So here’s a quick guide to help us all join …
We've added social media sharing buttons to 4 formats in the departments and policy section. If you look at the end of any consultation, news story, press release or world...
We publish over 100 changes to content every week to the ‘services and information’ section of GOV.UK alone. This means we get 100 chances to improve the content. But it also means there are over 100 opportunities for GOV.UK to …
We looked at the analytics for topic pages recently, and noticed some issues that we wanted to address, including a relatively high bounce rate. Topics give an overview of government activity in a particular area, and provide a browse route …
This is the first one of a series of blog posts to help you with your agency's transition by explaining some of the content principles of GOV.UK in practical terms. The first one is about how to avoid blurb in …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.