Apply the Service Standard in DfE

Guidance and information for how to apply the Government Service Standard to design and build accessible, usable and understandable services.

Getting started

• Service Standard

  How to apply the 14 point Service Standard in the context of DfE services and users.

• Accessibility

  Understand and apply accessibility at all stages of the service delivery lifecycle.

• Service assessments

  Assurance that you’re meeting standards and you’re delivering using good practice.

Other manuals and guidance

Other manuals which enable you to deliver good services for users.

• Design manual

  Guidance, patterns and standards for content, service and interaction designers delivering DfE services.

• Technical guidance manual

  Technical standards and guidance that we expect teams working within DfE to follow when building digital services.

• Architecture manual

  Architectural guidance, principles and standards.