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Making leadership more visible: Senior Civil Service roles are now on the Digital and Data Capability Framework

For the first time, we are expanding the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework to include Senior Civil Service (SCS) roles. This expansion increases visibility of executive leadership and establishes clearer career pathways to a senior role in government.

Last month we updated the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework to include Senior Civil Service (SCS) roles.

TechTrack: Transforming lives through apprenticeships 

If you are interested in a career in tech or upskilling your existing digital experience, these apprenticeships are an exciting opportunity to get involved in important projects that have a real impact on real people in society; helping to improve our public services and ensuring that AI works to all our benefit and making a difference to people’s lives across the UK.

The TechTrack Apprenticeship programme was launched at the end of July. Find out more about this important initiative and how these apprenticeships can assist the ambition for a modern digital government.

How we’re continuously improving the Digital and Data Capability Framework

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One year ago, the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework returned to public beta with a new design, structure and functionality to better meet the needs of its users. Since then, we have taken a continuous improvement at pace approach to ensure the framework gives users a clear and accurate understanding of digital and data roles and skills in government. Read more in the latest CDDO blog.

Activating data for national benefit and transformed public services

In the latest CDDO blog, read more from Craig Suckling, Chief Data Officer for UK Government about a mission-led data strategy and our areas of strategic focus for CDDO.

Artificial Intelligence: introducing our series of online courses on generative AI

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Discover how to harness the power of generative Artificial Intelligence tools with CDDO's new online courses on Government Campus.

Get Cloud Certified this October

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary, and the recent refresh, of the Government Cloud First policy, the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is excited to announce UK Public Sector Cloud Certification October! This is the most exciting month for …

The Digital Excellence Programme

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In our latest blog, you can read about the Digital Excellence Programme, specifically designed for current and aspiring Senior Civil Servants. Find out about the programme, and be part of the change by signing up for the pilot courses starting in February 2023.

How do you solve the Software Developer shortage across Government? Emerging talent!

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The DDaT Profession Talent team at CDDO have been developing a variety of talent programmes to support departmental DDaT workforce pipelines across government, and we are now excited to announce the launch of our new Software Developer Graduate Scheme.

The scheme signals a step change in how we diversify our graduate offer and directly addresses the shortfall in software developer talent across government.