Right from the beginning of GOV.UK, we knew we wanted to provide a single place where users could get help using the site. We called it 'support', as the sections within it were broad. The content was originally gathered from product …
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. …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. When updating a published page in the government ("departments and policy") section of GOV.UK, publishers have a choice of marking their …
Government services start and end on GOV.UK. Except, at the moment, that's not usually true. We have consistent 'start' pages acting as the natural entry point for services, but the way users are handled once a transaction is complete is currently rather inconsistent. …
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 recently introduced a new iteration of the Child Benefit tax calculator on GOV.UK and I wanted to share how we got there. The core team I was part of a small multi-disciplinary team brought together to work on this …
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 …
I think one of the most frustrating things that a non-agile team would have to deal with when working with an agile team is the “backlog”. What does it mean when the mainstream team say to someone “we’ve added it …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.