The Centre for Digital Public Services has convened a Digital Standards Working Group comprising representatives from Welsh Government, local government, health and social care and other Welsh public sector bodies.
Tried and tested standards and guidance help you design and deliver better public services. The group is not intended as a decision-making group for adopting standards and guidance, but to ensure we aren't reinventing existing standards, and any we do adopt are fit for purpose for Wales.
Remit of the group
The group is chaired by Dyfed Alsop, CEO of the Welsh Revenue Authority.
The group will:
- support the public sector to adopt the Digital Service Standards for Wales
- provide a feedback loop to iterate and improve these standards
- seek out, collate and facilitate the adoption of other existing good practice, guidance and standards from across other sectors, countries and government departments, making them relevant to Wales by providing additional context or advice
- advocate for Welsh priorities in relevant UK legislation and consultations
Approval process for adopting other’s standards and guidance
There’s lots of guidance already available. We want to avoid duplication where possible, learn from others and tweak and adapt them to meet the needs of our organisations.
Group members will identify relevant standards and guidance and discuss:
- the problem the standard or guidance solves
- to what extent it needs to be altered or contextualised to meet our needs in Wales, and how we’ll do this
We will seek your feedback before recommending that the standard or guidance is adopted.
Adopted guidance and standards will be adopted into beta first, so organisations can continue to test them in practice.
For more information, email standards@digitalpublicservices.gov.wales.
