CDPS Vision and Mission

Our vision is that: 

Digital services in Wales are designed around user needs and are simple, secure and convenient.

Our mission is: 

To accelerate lasting change in the Welsh public sector by developing people, processes and technology.

Remit, focus and budget for financial year 2025-26

The remit and focus for CDPS for 2025-26 has been determined by the findings of a Critical Friend Review undertaken at the end of 2024. 

Following on from the Review and its findings, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning has agreed that CDPS focus for the financial year 2025-26 should be the following:

Theme 1 Supporting the delivery of First Minister priorities – such as, but not limited to, work on the Planning service and Streamlining Welsh benefits. 

Theme 2: Supporting the delivery of Welsh Government services by providing training for senior civil servants, promoting and developing common digital standards, patterns and components, undertaking service assessments, managing the gov.wales domain and taking advantage of the opportunities resulting from the UK government plan: A blueprint for modern digital government.

Theme 3: Working across the public sector in Wales, sharing digital standards, patterns and components, case studies, service manual guidance, service assessments and training. 

This scope continues to support much of CDPS’s Term of Government remit letter (2022 – 2026) which was issued in June 2022 which asked CDPS to focus on the following:

  1. Supporting the leadership and culture amongst public service leaders to drive good digital policy making and support digital transformation 
  2. Support others to ensure that people can access digital public services by helping them create services that are designed around user needs 
  3. Work with others to develop a digital workforce strategy for public services in Wales and support practical measures to create a pipeline of skilled professionals
  4. Using the output of the landscape review to shape CDPS priorities now and in future, with a particular focus on collaboratively solving shared sectoral, or geographical, issues and concerns
  5. Continuing to promote shared use of the technologies and create and embed common and shared standards in digital, data and technology 
  6. Actions to help business in Wales better meet the digital transformation needs of public services
  7. The Centre should support Welsh Government to influence at the UK Government level to help shape policy priorities and help others to secure public and private investment into Wales. 

The Welsh Government has recognised that the agreed Workplan for 25-26 does not respond to all 7 objectives with equal weight. Objectives 3 and 6 have a small number of explicit deliverables to meet them, but they remain part of the CDPS Term of Government remit, and we anticipate progress against them during this year.