Communities
Standards and assurance community
The standards and assurance community exists to:
- bring together people with an interest in government digital standards
- discuss and challenge government digital standards
- examine how people understand and apply digital standards to build high quality services that meet the needs of users
Who the community is for
You might be interested in this community if your work involves:
- designing, implementing or assessing government digital or technology standards
- assessing commercial and infrastructure decisions related to digital or technology projects
- writing advice for ministers about spend controls for digital or technology projects
- assuring or submitting digital and business cases within the spending controls process
You do not have to be in a standards-related role to join.
Get involved
Join the standards and assurance community mailing list to discuss issues related to government digital standards (request access using your government email address).
If you cannot access this discussion space, please email [email protected] for help.
Community resources
Use these resources to learn more about government standards and assurance:
- Service Standard
- All service assessments and self-certifications - a list of all service assessments and self-assessments carried out to date
- GDS blog - stories and case studies about how the Service Standard has been understood and applied across government
- Services in government blog - stories from people who are transforming services all across the public sector
- Government technology blog - stories about spend controls, reform and the Technology Code of Practice
Standards and assurance in the Service Manual
These guides show what we currently believe to be best practice in standards and assurance for government services:
- How service assessments work
- Check if you need to get your service assessed
- Spend controls: check if you need approval to spend money on a service
- Spend controls: apply for approval to spend money on a service
- Working with standalone mobile apps
- Get a domain name
- Managing domain names
Help us keep the Service Manual up to date by:
- contributing to community discussions
- telling us if something is wrong or out of date using the feedback link in each guide
- Last update:
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Guidance first published