The Centre for Digital Public Services has convened a Digital and Data Standards Board for Wales 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.

Remit of the group

The group will:

  • support the public sector to adopt the Digital Service Standard 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.

Standards endorsed

See the standards we have endorsed.

Members include:

Rebecca Godfrey – Welsh Revenue Authority (Chair)

Harriet Green – Centre for Digital Public Services

Jemima Monteith-Thomas – Centre for Digital Public Services

Glyn Jones – Welsh Government

Richard Palmer – Data Cymru

Lindsey Phillips – Welsh Local Government Association

John Morris – Welsh Government

Rhiannon Caunt – Data Cymru

Amir Ramzan – Welsh Government

Janine Pepworth – Welsh Government

Emma Willis – Welsh Local Government Association

Aeddan Davies – Welsh Government

Ceri Davies – Welsh Government

Chris Carter – Welsh Local Government Association

Heledd Quaeck – Natural Resources Wales

Ray Sherry – Natural Resources Wales

Sam Hall - Digital Health and Care Wales