Piloting GOV.UK Verify for local government services


GOV.UK Verify went live in May 2016, and is now beginning to investigate how GOV.UK Verify might usefully be extended to local authorities. Over the summer the new ‘local authority reuse’ team at Government Digital Service (GDS) sent out a call for proposed uses of GOV.UK Verify from local authorities through the Local Digital Coalition and ran 2 service-specific discovery events with DVLA in mid-July.

In October GDS and participating local authorities kicked off two collaborative pilot projects for:

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