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Simpler, clearer, faster. Still. GOV.UK turns 5 today. #GOVUKis5 #smartergov

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We’ll welcome @thommeread as Chief Executive Officer in February. Tom will oversee the operation of GDS's standards, controls and assurance functions, and enhance our focus on developing and delivering new digital products and services. Press release ⬇️

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Just a little reminder that it's okay to...not know everything, to make mistakes and have a messy desk #WorldKindnessDay

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How many times a day do you refer to groups of people as 'guys'? Inclusive language matters: words have the power to include, or exclude. Why not #ChooseToChallenge gendered language by using these great inclusive alternatives (courtesy the GDS Women's Network)? #IWD2021

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Our way of life at GDS:

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Now in private beta, @GOVUK Forms will enable any government team to create simple, accessible digital forms in a few minutes. For insight, read more on how we've worked with @involvencygovuk on the new forms platform:

Making it easy to create and publish digital forms on GOV.UK

The Insolvency Service has published the first form made with GOV.UK Forms, our new digital form-building platform.

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The Design System is turning 3 years old! Here’s a thread about how it has helped services across government and beyond in the last 12 months ⬇️ [1/4] #DesignSystems #GovDesign #MakeThingsOpen

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It wouldn't be Christmas without a festive post-it note. Wishing everyone happy holidays from @gdsteam .

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GDS is 9 years old today 🎉 To celebrate, we asked team members - some long-standing and some recent joiners - about their time in digital government at GDS so far, telling us what they’re proud of now and what they’re excited about in the future. #GDSTurns9 THREAD ⬇️ [1/3]

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Announcing #GovTech - a funding programme for startups interested in using tech to fix public sector challenges: #TechNation

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Government as a Platform is now being used by over 200 services across government 🎉 . Ashley Stephens looks back on 3 years of transformation, and what’s next: #GovPlatforms

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We're not huge fans of PDFs on . We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.

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Our job is to uncover user needs and build services that meet them. Our design principles:

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Calling all content designers! We’re launching an intro to content design course on @FutureLearn and you can sign up now. Read our blog post to find out more.

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We’re holding the first International Design in Government conference in London this July. Find out more about what we’re planning and how to attend if you work in design, content, user research or accessibility in government around the world: #govdesign

We’re planning an International Design in Government conference

We've built an International Design in Government Community with more than 400 members from 37 countries. Now we're planning a conference to bring the community together and showcase the work of its...

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Today turns 7 🎂. is the single website for the UK’s government. You’ve probably visited it to use a government service, like Learning to drive 🚗, Register to vote 🗳️or even to report treasure 🏆. #GOVUKis7

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Some of the many principles that we work to. Digital by default. Learning from the journey.

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We’ve collaborated with departments to launch the API data and technical standards. These standards will help us to build, authenticate, iterate and document APIs in a consistent way across government:

Developing cross-government API data and technical standards

We are pleased to launch the API data and technical standards, which is the culmination of fantastic cross-government collaboration, facilitated by GDS. These API standards will help us as central...

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Coming soon - new requirements and duties for the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile apps. Are you ready? Do you know when the deadline is? Read more about what you need to know:

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You can download and print GDS posters at #govdesign

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This week is #GovPlatforms week. We’ll be looking at how 'Government as a Platform' (our toolkit of components) is being used across government to transform services. Find out more #smartergov

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Accessibility acceptance criteria are one of the tools we use to make sure our user interfaces are accessible. See examples of what these are and how we write them: #a11y #accessiblity

Improving accessibility with accessibility acceptance criteria

At Government Digital Service, everything we build must be accessible. It’s one of our design principles, 'This is for everyone': Accessible design is good design. Everything we build should be as...

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On GDS turning 1,884 websites into a single site for government and saving £60m, @DamianGreen @TheTimes : #GOVUKis5

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Our 'It's OK to' poster written by @gilest is currently exhibited at the Vienna Biennale. Download your own copy:

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Making it easier to build digital services that are accessible for everyone - we've published new guides: #a11y

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Long sentences are harder to read and not accessible, so...(read why here) ) #contentdesign

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We’re currently updating the Digital Service Standard. See what we found out from working with colleagues across government to identify challenges that the new Service Standard should address:

What we need to do to support end-to-end services across government

We need to make sure that the new Service Standard supports everyone in government who is involved in designing and delivering services. So we’ve been working with colleagues across government to...

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Happy 8th birthday to ! From the start, @GOVUK has shaken up digital government by doing the hard work to make government services simple to use. Let’s celebrate some of that work! #GOVUKis8

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Government email is changing (for the better). We’re dropping ‘.gsi’ from email addresses and moving away from old infrastructure:

Why government email is changing (for the better)

Mark Smith, Head of the Public Services Network at Government Digital Service, explains why email addresses across government are going to change, and what it means for civil servants.

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Trust. Users. Delivery. Where it all began, 4 years ago today. Happy birthday @GOVUK .

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A step-by-step journey that shows users all the things they need to do - and in what order - to achieve the thing they want to do. We’re building end-to-end services into GOV.UK:

Building end-to-end services into GOV.UK

Doing complex tasks like ‘starting a business’ or ‘learning to drive’ means users have to find lots of different pieces of content and interact with government lots of times. We’ve been working to...

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The @GOVUK homepage helps people access essential UK government information and services, with over 1 million page visits each week. Today, we're revealing the most significant homepage design changes since 2014. Learn more: #Design #Digital

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In honour of GOV.UK turning 5 this week, here are 5 things you can do on GOV.UK in no more time than it takes to make a cup of tea #GOVUKis5

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After 3.5 million messages and 500 hours of user research - we’re making Notify available to central government:

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#UserResearch isn’t about finding what users like, but what works best for them. Poster here: http://t.co/Lpt80E9T66

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📷 Here’s just a few of the people who made sure the public had access to vital information and services during the pandemic. The team met in our London office this week after working remotely for the last 2 years!

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Early access to @GOVUK Forms is here! Find out how we’re making digital forms simple to set up and quick to process. Government users can create a trial account to start building new forms today.👇

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As of today, @GOVUK has a new crown in its logo. The crown is being gradually updated across government to reflect King Charles III's chosen crown, featured in His Majesty’s Royal Cypher. Read the press notice to see how the crown has changed 👑:

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Users need words to navigate your service. Involve content designers from the start. #govcontent

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Follow #ConCon6 : 240 colleagues from 56 departments and agencies from 24 locations are collaborating on content design today. #GovContent

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"The best digital leaders are humble and collaborative, yet ambitious and creative." - @simoneverest . Find out what colleagues across government believe makes a good digital leader:

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As new accessibility regulations come into force, here's some guidance on what public sector websites will have to do by certain deadlines and how GDS can help support them.

How we’re helping public sector websites meet accessibility requirements

As new accessibility regulations come into force, here's some guidance on what public sector websites will have to do by certain deadlines and how GDS can help support them.

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See how we made the next/previous navigation on GOV.UK pages accessible to screen readers users, and what it taught us about #accessibility : #a11y

What working on GOV.UK navigation taught us about accessibility

We look at the work the GOV.UK Publishing Frontend team have done to make their navigation accessible and what they learnt from doing this.

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You can download and print GDS #Pride posters designed by @sonia_turcotte at

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If you don’t know what the user needs are, you won’t build the right thing. Our design principles begin with user needs.

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Mapping service journeys helps us build step by step navigation to show users all the content and transactions they need to complete a service. See how we approached service mapping:

How we approached service mapping

The Modelling Services team recently blogged about the launch of step by step navigation. This is a new navigation pattern that shows users all the content and transactions they need to complete a...

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We're thrilled to announce that not only has our very own @kevincunnington been recognised by @apoliticalco as one of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government but also @louisedowne . You can read more about this great achievement here:

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This week marks 5 years of GDS. 5 years of delivery. There’s a lot that’s happened so we'll be sharing the GDS story... 1/2 #GDSbirthday

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1/11 It’s our 10th anniversary. To mark 10 years of doing the hard work to make it simple for people to navigate and interact with government, we challenged some of our people to tell us - in 10 seconds or less - what excites them most about our next chapter 👇 #GDSis10

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7 years

A complete guide to help you with planning and managing #govcontent to meet user needs: #ConCon6

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A ‘hello’ from the new head of GDS, @kevincunnington :

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What do we mean when we talk about #accessibility ? It's about ensuring no one is excluded from using your service, says @dugboticus . #a11y

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Having hosted 6,000 hours of user research at GDS, here's what we've found does and doesn’t work: #userresearch

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At least 1 in 5 people have a long-term illness, disability or impairment that affects how they access or understand information. We wrote an accessible social media campaigns guide with @UKgovcomms to help communicators make campaigns better for everyone:

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Today is #WorldUsabilityDay . We believe making things accessible makes them better. It's also the law. Learn more about what's happening to make public services accessible ⬇️[arrow down emoji] #AccessibilityRegulations #WUD2020 (1/6)

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It’s time for #servicedesign to be placed at the front of what we mean by 'design'. So we're partnering with @L_D_F :

GDS at the London Design Festival

GDS is running a series of events for the London Design Festival in September, including a Cross-Government Design Meetup at the Design Museum, which will be open to the public and free to attend.

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From today, GOV.‌UK will look a bit different for some users... We’re testing a new design of GOV.‌UK’s menu bar to make it easier for people to find what they need on GOV.‌UK. Read about the research behind the changes here: #MakeThingsOpen #GovDesign

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On building good digital services that meet all the points in the Digital Service Standard, 4 tips from @HODigital :

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We've created a series of accessibility persona logins so that teams, such as user researchers and developers, can create services that are accessible. Here's how they work.

Using persona profiles to test accessibility

At the Government Digital Service we've created a series of accessibility persona logins, so that people can experience different conditions and test their services. Here's how they work.

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Diversity should be normal, not special. So we’re normalising, rather than diversifying. Find out more: #womenintech

Normalising gender diversity

As a woman in a tech career, I've often found myself the one woman in a room of many men - I'm not complaining, just calling it out. It's what I’m used to and, to be honest, it …

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10 practical things @DWPdigital are doing to build a digital culture: #DigitalTransformation

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"Transformation is all about the people. Building capability is transformation". @HollyAEllis opening our first Digital, Data and Technology capability conference today. #allaboutpeople

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What is good content design? "It's the nuts and bolts," says @tjrdoyle . It's about giving users what they need, easily. #ConCon6 #govcontent

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Accessibility is important, in fact, next week it will become law for public sector websites. Make sure you're aware of the requirements and that your organisation is compliant:

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Words of wisdom from @gdsteam ’s Lindsey Keighley ‘It’s not about doing #agile , it’s about being agile…’

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. @ben4ipswich has announced today that the @DWP digital academy will move to GDS, giving us a national presence in the UK

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How can you support a more introvert-friendly workplace? "We need to improve awareness and understanding of introversion". #NIW2017

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On being open, inclusive and bringing your full self to work: #Pride2017

Working in the open: why being inclusive matters

Building an open and inclusive culture is something we work on continually. All this work is important, because it helps create an environment where people can feel confident to be themselves at...

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🇬🇧🇯🇵 It was a pleasure to have @konotaromp , Japan's Minister of Digital Transformation, visit us at our London hub today to discuss the Memorandum of Cooperation between GDS and @digital_jpn that was signed last year.

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Important words from @LouiseDowne on their talk earlier about the future of government services at #Sprint18 .

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3 years

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) GAAD raises awareness to improve #accessibility and enhance #UserExperience for people living with disabilities. We're sharing resources on #a11y best practice that organisations can use in their work ⬇️ #GAAD2021 [1/6]

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How do you run a successful workshop? The GOV.UK content improvements team share their 10 top tips:

Ten tips for getting the best from workshops

Workshops with our department colleagues give us a joint view of our challenges and a shared sense of ownership – but planning and running them is a real skill. To help with your next workshop, we’ve...

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The Government Transformation Strategy: putting more power in the hands of citizens #GTS17

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Join us to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day on 21 May. Register for our sessions to learn more about the digital #AccessibilityRegulations and use our downloadable resources pack to run your own internal events on the day: #GAAD

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Accessibility should be a part of everything we make and design across government. So to help ensure there are no barriers preventing someone from using something, we created an accessibility empathy lab:

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A new @GDSacademy course for people who work in government to learn how and why we research and design services:

GDS Academy launches new course: Research and design in government

When the Academy moved to Government Digital Service (GDS), it put us in an ideal position to collaborate with digital, data and technology communities from across government to understand their...

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Anyone working across government can come and use our new user research lab. Find out more about how the lab was designed and how you can book it: #userresearch

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23 September is finally here, it’s now a legal requirement for public sector websites to be accessible. Here are some helpful resources to make sure you’re complying with the regulations. #AccessibilityRegulations (1/4)

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With half of all search queries predicted to be spoken by 2020, here's more detail on the work we've been doing to meet the emerging needs of #voiceassistant users and make government more accessible: #Digital

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We’ve published six new guides on the most common user research methods:

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"Digital leadership is not about understanding specific technologies, it’s about understanding people." - Emily Ackroyd and Hazel Hobbs. To mark #DLWeek , government colleagues reflect on what makes a good digital leader:

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250 people from 37 countries have joined the international #govdesign community. Find out more about the community and how you can get involved if you work in design, content, user research or accessibility in any government across the world:

Growing the International Design in Government community

A the start of the year we set up an international design in government community. The community now has more than 250 members from 37 countries. Here's what we've been talking about and how you can...

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You might have heard that we're tackling the long tail of PDF forms on . If you're interested in getting involved, read our latest blog post for details: #MakeThingsOpen

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Three ways to get more value from your roadmaps (projects plans for #servicedesign ) via @Justice_Digital :

Make the most of your roadmap

Roadmaps are great tools for making strategic decisions in spaces with low certainty. Here are 3 tips for getting the most out of roadmaps for your service.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Today is #TransgenderDayOfVisibility which celebrates the positive impact transgender and gender non-conforming people have on our society. It is also a chance for everyone to reflect and learn more about how to become a better ally to the community. [1/4]

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We're here to support, enable and assure. @kevincunnington outlines the GDS mission:

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Perceivable. Operable. Understandable. Robust. @dugboticus explains the four principles of accessibility. #a11y

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What does it mean to design with #accessibility in mind? Read the new guidance in the Service Manual: #a11y

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What is good content design? As we get closer to #ConCon7 , here’s @tjrdoyle on the importance of giving users what they need, easily:

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By default we try to use the most accessible colours, however there are still times where some users may need to change them. Read our latest blog post about how we're improving website #accessibility :

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What does it actually mean to understand user needs? How do we do it right? #userresearch http://t.co/bHwLhR68y1

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From today public sector mobile apps should be #accessible and have an accessibility statement published. As a reminder of what makes a great accessible mobile app read this blog post: You can also check out more resources in this thread! [1/4]

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Thanks to all of our colleagues and speakers who came and celebrated #Pride2017 with us last night 🌈

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We’re getting ready for #Pride2016 .

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Be strategic. Learn to prototype. Tips for content designers on working effectively as part of a product or service team: #contentdesign #govcontent

Getting started as a content designer in a product or service team

A GDS content designer shares some tips on how content designers can work effectively as part of a product or service team.

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. @kevincunnington outlines the 2017 Government Transformation Strategy released today: #GTS17

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Very honoured to have @Marthalanefox today sharing her personal journey and discussing diversity in digital.

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Soon #AccessibilityRegulations will come into force. This means public sector websites published on, or after, 23 September 2018 need to meet accessibility criteria and have an updated accessibility statement published by 23 September 2019.

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Introducing the new @GOVUK Design System. One place to find all patterns and components to help teams across government create user-centred digital services. Find out more:

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"A system shouldn’t break if a single part of it fails or isn’t supported.” Why we use progressive enhancement:

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