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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.

Guest post: How GOV.UK Notify helps the Valuation Office Agency stay in touch with users

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Meera Nayyar is a Customer Strategy Lead for the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). In this guest post, she writes about how the VOA is using GOV.UK Notify to keep businesses informed about changes to their rates with email and SMS messages.

What we're working on in Government as a Platform

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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.

GOV.UK Notify is now open for use

Photo of 9 members of the Notify team sitting in a semi circle in front of a screen showing the Notify dashboard.

Back in May last year GOV.UK Notify sent its first messages as part of our invite-only beta release. Now - after 9 months, 3.5 million messages, 32 live services, 850 code deployments, and 500 hours of user research — we’re making Notify available to all of central government.