Digital

  • The Social Security Programme – approach to integrated assurance

    5th February 2025 by

    Guest blog from Lois MacFadyen, Head of the Digital Assurance Office. The Social Security Programme was set up to build and implement the new Social Security System in Scotland, making arrangements for the delivery of 17 benefits.  The design and development work on the first end to end service started in October 2017 and the...

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  • Planning – insights from the Technology Assurance Framework

    29th January 2025 by

    Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Planning is one of the Scottish Government’s programme and project management principles and is described as ‘considering all aspects of our projects and continuously planning, managing dependencies, agreeing and refining evidence based assumptions, and reporting on progress against milestones throughout.’  Planning has been identified...

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  • Statistics.gov.scot Improvement Project – Discovery

    23rd January 2025 by

    Blog by Auren Clarke, Senior Product Manager in the Digital Directorate’s Open Data Team, Data Division. I work in the Scottish Government’s Open Data team, and we are responsible for maintaining Scotland’s Official Statistics platform statistics.gov.scot. Last year, we gave an update on the work of the open data team – we are focused on...

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  • Unlocking the Value of Scotland’s Data – Response to report published.

    16th January 2025 by

    Blog by Chris Bergin, Strategic Data Policy Adviser, Digital Citizen Unit. The Scottish Government has published its response to the report by the Independent Expert Group for the Unlocking the Value of Data programme. The programme is exploring how the public sector can responsibly unlock the value of the personal datasets they hold – securely,...

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  • ScotPayments – Building our own in-house technical capabilities

    9th January 2025 by

    Blog by Megan Abbott, Lead Business Relationship Manager in ScotPayments, sharing an update on progress and how the team have been working on their own internal transformation by building in-house technical capabilities. Here at ScotPayments we focus a lot on how we are supporting the digital transformation of public services in Scotland. By thinking about...

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  • ScotAccount – helping you access services

    14th November 2024 by

    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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  • Moveable Transactions Project – Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) reflections

    13th November 2024 by

    Guest blog from Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO) working with Registers of Scotland (RoS) have shared some of their experiences from the delivery of the Moveable Transactions project.  For this blog we caught up with the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the project, Anne Godfrey, to capture...

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  • Trove.scot – user engagement

    23rd October 2024 by

    Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. This case study explores how the trove.scot Service Team took a user centred approach. This is the last of three case studies that have been prepared with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to capture their activities and reflections. Check out the first two case studies...

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  • Trove.scot – working with your supplier

    16th October 2024 by

    Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Working with your supplier This case study explores how the trove.scot Service Team worked with the supplier they appointed to design and deliver trove.scot and their reflections. This is the second of three case studies prepared with Historic Environment Scotland (HES). The first, exploring...

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  • Trove.scot – embedding the Standard and working with the assessment process

    9th October 2024 by

    Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Historic Environment Scotland (HES) care for and curate millions of internationally renowned collections and archives. As the lead public body for Scotland’s historic environment, they also play a key role in identifying, celebrating and protecting Scotland’s most significant heritage. Their records on listed buildings,...

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