Event round-up: DWP Universal Credit Programme Digital Strategy Industry Briefing
On Thursday 26 May techUK was delighted to host the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for an industry briefing on the digital strategy for the Universal Credit Programme
Universal Credit is the working-age benefit delivered to over 5 million UK citizens through a modern Digital service, designed, built and operated in-house by DWP. At full scale, the service will pay £67bn per year in benefits.
While Universal Credit is already operating at a large scale, there are 2.5 million more people to move onto Universal Credit from the legacy benefits that the service is replacing, all while continuing to build new features and enhance existing features in the service. There are 17 Theme teams working as multi-disciplinary agile teams delivering business functionality, and a number of technical teams covering CI/CD, performance, and platform. The engineering landscape is complex, with over 3 million lines of Java code, 100k automated tests, 150 different types of microservice, fully hosted in AWS and MongoDB Atlas. There are also many Integrations with other DWP systems and 3rd parties, and security is at the forefront of all of the programme’s work.
During this event, DWP engaged with the open market, sharing information with suppliers about the Universal Credit short, medium and long-term digital strategy, including key service goals. Suppliers were given the opportunity to better understand the challenges the programme faces and DWP were able to gain insight from the market about potential ways forward.
After the event, suppliers were invited to complete a questionnaire, which must be returned directly to the Universal Credit Programme team by Friday 10 June 2022.
You can watch the recording of this event here:
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather is Head of Central Government Programme at techUK, working to represent the supplier community of tech products and services to Central Government.
Prior to joining techUK in April 2022, Heather worked in the Economic Policy and Small States Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She led the organisation’s FinTech programme and worked to create an enabling environment for developing countries to take advantage of the socio-economic benefits of FinTech.
Before moving to the UK, Heather worked at the Office of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
Heather holds a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from LSE, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Macalester College.
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Jill Broom
Jill Broom
Jill leads the techUK Cyber Resilience programme, having originally joined techUK in October 2020 as a Programme Manager for the Cyber and Central Government programmes. She is responsible for managing techUK's work across the cyber security ecosystem, bringing industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. Jill also provides the industry secretariat for the Cyber Growth Partnership, the industry and government conduit for supporting the growth of the sector. A key focus of her work is to strengthen the public–private partnership across cyber to support further development of UK cyber security and resilience policy.
Before joining techUK, Jill worked as a Senior Caseworker for an MP, advocating for local communities, businesses and individuals, so she is particularly committed to techUK’s vision of harnessing the power of technology to improve people’s lives. Jill is also an experienced editorial professional and has delivered copyediting and writing services for public-body and SME clients as well as publishers.
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Ellie Huckle
Ellie Huckle
Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.
The programme represents the supplier community of technology products and services in Central Government – in summary working to make Government a more informed buyer, increasing supplier visibility in order to improve their chances of supplying to Government Departments, and fostering better engagement between the public sector and industry. To find out more about what we do, how we do this and how you can get involved – make sure to get in touch!
Prior to joining techUK, Ellie completed Sixth Form in June 2015 and went on to work in Waitrose, moved on swiftly to walking dogs and finally, got an office job working for a small local business in North London, where she lives with her family and their two Bengal cats Kai and Nova.
When she isn’t working Ellie likes to spend time with her family and friends, her cats, and enjoys volunteering for diabetes charities. She has a keen interest in writing, escaping with a good book and expanding her knowledge watching far too many quiz shows!
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