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How GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Pay help local authorities transform services

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Map of UK showing regions in which there are local councils using GOV.UK Pay

We’ve been inspired by the innovative ways in which councils are using our products - below are some examples, and we'll hear from the people using our products who explain how they meet the needs of their users.

From theory to practice: Government as a Platform 3 years on and 200 services later

Infographic detailing facts and figures about Government as a Platform in March 2018: 35 million messages sent with GOV.UK Notify, 19 services hosted on Platform as a Service, 34 data registers, 900,000 payments made through GOV.UK Pay worth more than £40 million, and more than 200 services using Government as a a Platform's common components

One year on from the launch of the Government Transformation Strategy, Ash Stephens introduces a week of stories from teams across government showcasing the benefits and maturity of common components.

What we're working on in Government as a Platform

The government as a platform team stand up and discuss team matters in front of a sign that reads 'government as a platform'

As more and more services begin to adopt our Government as a Platform components, we’ve decided to post regular updates on our progress building them. This is a list of what we’ve done so far in 2017. We’ll iterate the format of these updates to make them as useful as we can.