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Introducing Apply the Service Standard in the Department for Education
Building new guidance to enable service delivery teams to understand and apply the Service Standard in DfE.
Apply the Service Standard in DfE
17 August 2022
Dashboards & visualising progress
The features and functionality of a single point service dashboard
STS Plan technology for your school
22 November 2022
Assigning a project
We created a feature that allows team leads to assign conversions projects to delivery officers.
Prepare conversions and transfers
10 October 2022
Access the service
We want to guide internal users who don't have access to Prepare conversions and transfers.
Prepare conversions and transfers
9 January 2023
Changing the conversion date
We created a way for users to enter the confirmed conversion date. We know this date can change and must be updated, so next we thought about how this could be done in the thing.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
10 March 2023
Helping funding teams check project progress
Users share information about the progress of conversions with colleagues who arrange and release the funding for new academies. This is done through spreadsheets. We want to make it easier by sharing this information in our product.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
14 March 2023
Referring to types of conversion
We originally built the application with the understanding that there were 2 types of conversion: voluntary and involuntary. As we learnt more about the process we found that wasn't quite right, so we had to make a change.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
15 March 2023
Confirming all conditions have been met
One of the critical checkpoints in a conversion's progress is the all conditions met task. This is the point at which the user confirms that everything that must be done in order for the school to convert on time is done.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
24 March 2023
Form for admin users to list VCS organisation services
The first version of the form for admin users to list their voluntary and community sector organisation support service in a directory for professionals working with families to search.
Connect families to support
5 July 2022
Adding new user journeys to the ‘Manage’ prototype
We added ways for local authority users to add and manage family support services, and to create new user accounts.
Connect families to support
17 February 2023
Accessing completed projects
Converting to an academy is a legal process. Once the academy has opened and all the necessary tasks have been completed, the project needs to be preserved as a record of what happened and should not be changed.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
4 April 2023
Aligning the prototypes for ‘Connect’ and ‘Find’
When the design and research teams for the Information Sharing and Family Experience services joined together, we aligned the prototypes for 'Find support for your family' and 'Connect families to support'.
Connect families to support
6 January 2023
Developing the professional 'search and refer' a family
Testing and iterating the language we use to describe the service professionals will use to search for support services for families.
Connect families to support
19 July 2022
Collecting voluntary and community sector organisation information
Iterating the data we collect from voluntary and community sector organisations to display in a directory of services for professionals working with families.
Connect families to support
31 July 2022
Redesigning how professionals search for support for families
We redesigned the journey for professionals to search for, and connect families to, support.
Connect families to support
17 December 2022
Find support for your family alpha version 1
This is the first version of the prototype we tested with families to help them find support from family hubs and services in their local area.
Connect families to support
12 August 2022
Find support for your family alpha version 2
This is the second version of the prototype we tested with families to help them find support from family hubs and services in their local area.
Connect families to support
12 August 2022
Find support for your family alpha version 3
This is the third version of the prototype we tested with families to help them find support from family hubs and services in their local area.
Connect families to support
12 August 2022
Find support for your family alpha version 4
This is the fourth version of the prototype we tested with families to help them find support from family hubs and services in their local area.
Connect families to support
12 August 2022
Find support for your family alpha version 5
This is the fifth version of the prototype we tested with families to help them find support from family hubs and services in their local area.
Connect families to support
12 August 2022
Naming Find, Connect and Manage
We decided, in groups and in consultation with product managers, on service names and domains for Find, Connect and Manage.
Connect families to support
16 December 2022
Evolving categories for 'Connect' and 'Find'
We iterated the categories that services in 'Find' and 'Connect' can use to identify what they offer.
Connect families to support
10 November 2022
Iterating how users search in 'Find'
We added a secondary start page to 'Find support for your family', and redesigned the search filters, categories and results pages.
Connect families to support
28 October 2022
Filtering by age in ‘Find’ and ‘Connect’
We redesigned and moved the age filter, used by the ‘Find’ and ‘Connect’ services, to make it more obvious and useful.
Connect families to support
6 April 2023
Building a new user journey for 'Find'
How we designed our second user journey for testing.
Connect families to support
12 October 2022