6-minute read This week we’ve launched a refreshed version of the e-petitions website. What is the e-petitions website and why does it matter? It feels incredible to say but the e-petitions website has been around in some form for 20 …
Parliament is a busy workplace, and our intranet has information about everything we need to know, from important news stories and events happening on the parliamentary estate, to health and wellbeing resources, or the practical information every workplace needs to …
Recruiting people into technical digital roles and helping them develop their skills in-post has been a long-standing challenge for Parliament. We’ve been working to improve our offer for technical roles, helping people to build a career that brings long-term rewards and challenges.
In my current role as Head of Customer Experience Management, I help to ensure that PDS understands our customers. It’s the sixth role I’ve had in PDS. My background was not in the world of IT and digital, but I've come a long way since then.
Parliament recently partnered with Code First Girls to recruit and train seven women in data and product roles. This is part of our efforts to widen our talent pool and improve inclusion and diversity in digital and tech roles. The gender …
The name of the Information Systems 24/7 team gives you a clue about our working hours. We work almost every day and night of the year, meaning there is always someone from our team available to support the work of Parliament and its community.
We've achieved a lot over the last two years, and we're building on that in the future with five objective areas: the product directorate, upskilling our editors, content management, content governance, and improved content for platforms.
We wrote recently about the Transforming Digital programme, the benefits it aims to bring to Parliament, and how in the first 18 months of the programme we successfully laid the foundations for transformation. The programme now has a year left …
Earlier this month, to mark International Women's Day, we held a conversation between two colleagues about their careers in digital so far, and the way they see their impact on promoting access to digital and technical roles in PDS.
Parliament is full of history and tradition. It’s also a modern workplace. For the last 18 months, we have been laying the foundations for big improvements to the way Parliament manages, funds, prioritises and delivers its digital work, under the title of the Transforming Digital Programme.
A group of people in customer-facing roles set up a network of accessibility champions as a simple way to learn more about accessibility and share knowledge between colleagues in PDS.