Comments on: What is Inside Government?

By: Liz @ PHE

Liz @ PHE — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:02:22 +0000

Many thanks for pointing out this mistake, which we’ve now corrected. You can always use the ‘feedback’ link at the bottom of any page on gov.uk, to contact the page owner direct.

By: Denyse

Denyse — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:15:19 +0000

Hello
Not sure who I should contact about this, or how to contact them but the caption on the photo on this PHE page: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/key-roles-of-nurses-and-midwives-phe-june-conference is wrong because it is a midwife who cares for pregnant women. Someone who is not a nurse can train to become a midwife but a nurse cannot provide midwifery specific care without trainign as a midwife. Therefore the caption should read “Midwife consultation with expectant parents”. Please woud you contact the appropriate person to ammend accordingly? Thanks.

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:05:18 +0000

Thanks for the feedback John, we’re looking into this. To help us understand exactly the problem you’re experiencing, can you send the URL for the calculator at the point you hit the problem. Use the link below to do this and we can keep you updated. https://www.gov.uk/feedback/contact

By: John Howarth

John Howarth — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:26:11 +0000

The maternity/paternity pay calculator for employers at step 10 does not allow you to put in the year 2011 when the question asks you when you last worked before 01/12/11. The only years available are 2012-2016. At that point you are told in red that you must put in a year that the calculator does not allow you to enter….

By: Dominic Curran

Dominic Curran — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:05:58 +0000

James is exactly right about the search function. For example, the housing statistics live tables used to be on one page of the old site. They are now spread across ‘affordable housing’, ‘housebuilding’, and ‘housing’ pages. I’ve given up using the CLG/Gov site to fund anything, and instead now just use Google. CLG should frankly ask for their money back from the website developers.

By: James

James — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:47:09 +0000

I think the comments regarding CLG show one of the flaws here. Namely that whilst it is right to try and create sites that are easily accessible for anyone, you should also take into account those that use the current (previous) sites on a regular basis in a professional capacity.
They/we would not have responded much on any consultation because of time constraints to be honest (that works both ways I should highlight). Accessing information such as statistics, previous publications (especially planning in my case) and the like is now incredibly annoying and time consuming. The search function – which seems to be the only way to navigate this site – brings so much useless stuff back it is ridiculous.
I accept that change is always difficult but it seems to me that this site is making the interaction between local and central government even more difficult.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:32:11 +0000

Hi Charles

All publications relating to fire can be found on the publication list, here (this link will take you to the list with filters set for ‘DCLG’ and the topic of ‘public safety and emergencies’ which is where the fire content now lives):

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?utf8=%E2%9C%93&topics%5B%5D=public-safety-and-emergencies&departments%5B%5D=department-for-communities-and-local-government&publication_type=all

If you want to narrow the options down further, you can type into the ‘keyword’ field.

Furthermore, you’ll find all the policies relating to fire grouped here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topics/public-safety-and-emergencies

This topic page includes an Atom feed of all the publications and announcements that are related to these policies, which you can keep tabs on by using a feed reader. Soon we will be adding an email alert service so you can get notified when things change by email, too.

Finally, if you look at any of the individual topics about fire, you will see an ‘activity’ tab which lists all the publications and announcements specific to that policy. So if you are only interested in a particular aspect of fire policy you can just look there rather than the whole topic.

Hope this helps – we’d welcome feedback on whether this is a clear and helpful way of presenting the information for regular users like yourself.