The Civil Possessions project, part of the HDPIP, modernises HMCTS services through a business-first data architecture. By treating data models as living artefacts that evolve with service requirements, the team builds a scalable foundation that adapts to changing policies. This collaborative, iterative approach ensures data remains structured, consistent, and resilient, allowing the digital platform to effectively support evolving public services.

I have worked in the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence since 2022. The role is highly varied and involves working with stakeholders across the organisation on focus topics such as: software assurance risk management cyber security incident management These varied tasks mean that no two days are alike. Here is what a typical day looks like.

How do you measure something rooted in lived experience, like accessibility culture? Standard industry models often fall short.That’s why a specialist team of us here at Solirius Reply built a bespoke framework to capture organisational reality, not just policies and promises. Here are four lessons on measuring the “unmeasurable” and turning good intentions into real maturity.

At the Planning Inspectorate (PINS), we design services to meet a wide range of user needs. To help ensure services provide a consistent, user-centred experience and improve collaboration across teams, we've been developing a shared design system. In this post, Claire McShane, who is deployed as an Interaction Designer at PINS, shares how it started and what we’ve learned so far.

Our success is rooted in five core principles that guide every interaction and delivery phase: 1. Listen to the users We engage users at all stages of the development lifecycle. This ensures we understand their needs and motivations so we can develop services they want to use. 2. Design a coherent and holistic solution We focus on understanding strategic objectives. We then use design thinking to iterate towards a complete solution that solves a whole problem. 3. Build balan

It was a typical gloomy day in January when a group of our consultants visited Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre in East Ham. We ran a workshop for students eager to explore careers in tech.