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Which is a much nicer site:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w...
Of course, they could break every link out there to their old site if they wanted, but instead they're implementing redirects for all the high-traffic pages.
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To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
You can download a PDF to mail in from the nice new site, but if you want to do it online the new site will direct you back here.
(Not wanting to seem harsh, some things are being done well, but let's not get carried away and forget all the many, many things that are still truly dreadful and need fixed.)
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
This is the DWP homepage if you come via http://gov.uk : https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w... As a Brit, the new Gov.uk site makes me feel very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it. :o)
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
I can't speak for their digital strategy but their universal jobmatch site is abysmal. A truly awful piece of work. https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
I can't speak for their digital strategy but their universal jobmatch site is abysmal. A truly awful piece of work. https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch
I mean it was designed to be used on a touch-screen interface by people of all ages, they're going to have to lose some functionality for that alone.
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…
It doesn't redirect because this is the only way to apply online for "Attendance Allowance (AA), Disability Living Allowance (DLA adult and child), Overseas State Pension – if you are a non-UK resident (including Channel Islands)". You can download a PDF to mail in from the nice new site, but if you want to do it online the new site will direct you back here. (Not wanting to seem harsh, some things are being done wel…
Definitely not what you might expect!