Digital
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ScotAccount – helping you access services
14th November 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
David Duncan-Fraser, ScotAccount Service Owner, provides direction on how to use ScotAccount and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the service. This includes guidance on where ScotAccount is used within public services, and how users can be supported to sign in to their accounts and verify their information if required. ScotAccount is a new...
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ScotAccount – helping more people to access public services online
23rd September 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Trudy Nicolson, Programme Director for the Scottish Government’s digital identity programme, updates us on progress and the opportunities ahead. ScotAccount launched in February 2023 as a secure and simple way to access public services online. Working initially with Disclosure Scotland, ScotAccount has enabled people to access their disclosure results online. More recently, ScotAccount has assisted...
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ScotAccount – Usability by design and default
2nd August 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Laurie Brown, Digital Information Security Officer, provides strategic information security direction, assurance, and governance across a number of Scottish Government digital public services including the work to introduce ScotAccount. ScotAccount is the secure and simple way to access public services online. It makes accessing services easier because you can use one account to sign in...
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Security by design and default – ScotAccount
16th May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Laurie Brown, Digital Information Security Officer, provides strategic information security direction, assurance, and governance across a number of Scottish Government digital public services including the work to introduce ScotAccount. ScotAccount is the secure and simple way to access public services online. It makes accessing services easier because you can use one account to sign in...
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Privacy by design and default – ScotAccount
29th February 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Laurie Brown, Digital Information Security Officer, provides strategic information security direction, assurance, and governance across a number of Scottish Government digital public services including the work to introduce ScotAccount. ScotAccount is an online service that allows people to sign in to public services in a user-centred and secure way. It makes accessing services easier and...
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Security Principles – ScotAccount
27th October 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
Laurie Brown, Digital Information Security Officer within Scottish Government, provides strategic information security direction, assurance and governance across a number of Scottish Government digital public services including the work of the digital identity programme.
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ScotAccount – pilot with Disclosure Scotland
23rd June 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
The digital identity service, ScotAccount, went live in partnership with Disclosure Scotland, as a pilot, which we call ‘private beta’ at the end of February 2023. ScotAccount has been integrated into Disclosure Scotland’s new online service, providing users with digital access to their disclosure results. This supports delivery of the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020.
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A digital identity service for Scotland – the road ahead
15th November 2022 by Stewart Hamilton
You can hear more about our progress and future plans by joining our online event on 16 November (14:00-16:00). Registration for ‘A digital identity service for Scotland’ is now open – and everyone is welcome.
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Public engagement and the digital identity service
1st November 2022 by Stewart Hamilton
During the development of the digital identity service, we have embraced the Scottish Approach to Service Design with people actively taking part in the definition, design and delivery of the digital identity service.
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Discover what’s next for Scotland’s digital identity service
14th October 2022 by Stewart Hamilton
The aim of the digital identity service is to improve people’s access to public services by providing them a safe, reusable and easy way to prove who they are or that they are eligible for a public service.