Gary Tucker

Gary is service manager on the digital apprenticeship service.

Why in a time when change is constant is it so important to create stability for our users?

Gary Tucker, 19 July 2022 - Agile, Apprenticeship service, Apprenticeships, Data, Digital strategy

Making accurate payments to providers and employers is a key aim of the Apprenticeship Service and a key user need to address. Gary Tucker, Deputy Director at the Apprenticeship Service, talks about how the Service has created very accurate payments and built a capability to ensure apprentices are given the opportunities they deserve.

5 strategies to build digital capability

Gary Tucker, 22 March 2018 - Agile, Apprenticeship service, Apprenticeships, Change delivery, Citizen digital service, Content design, Delivery Management, Digital strategy, Jobs and careers, Technology, Testing, User research

Building digital capability in the public sector is not that easy. Gary Tucker, Head of digital for the apprenticeship service, shares 5 strategies for meeting this challenge

It's all about the apprentices

Gary Tucker, 7 July 2017 - Apprenticeship service

Rarely in your daily working life do you stand back and think about the impact of what you are doing on lives, the economy, employers. I remind my team every day that what they do is changing lives. Making it …

How public beta is working on the apprenticeship service

Gary Tucker, 3 March 2017 - Apprenticeship service

The apprenticeship service launch into public beta has so far been a success. We deliberately kept the launch small to start with, giving the teams time to test functionality, operational processes and policy impact.

From private to public: getting ready for GDS assessment

Gary Tucker, 15 December 2016 - Apprenticeship service

Today we take the end-to-end digital apprenticeship service to GDS for its private beta assessment. As service manager, it’s my job to make sure that everything is in place.

Ready for Live: Find an Apprenticeship

Gary Tucker, 25 March 2015 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service

The Find an apprenticeship digital service has been helping people search and apply for apprenticeships online since December 2014. We have now passed our live assessment, giving us the green light to go fully live with the Service.

Lessons from the sharp end: approaching live with Find an apprenticeship

Gary Tucker, 9 March 2015 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service

Our Find an apprenticeship service has been helping people search and apply for apprenticeships easily online since December 2014. I'm the Digitals Service Manager for Find an apprenticeship. As it's National Apprenticeship Week 2015, I've written a blog post for GDS looking at our team's achievements …

Testing with assisted digital users

Gary Tucker, 4 December 2014 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Assisted digital

Meeting the needs of Assisted Digital users is something that the ‘find an apprenticeship’ exemplar team have worked really hard to address. Although we have only seen Assisted Digital needs in 5% of our users, we have addressed these needs by …

Passing the public beta assessment

Gary Tucker, 20 November 2014 - Apprenticeships exemplar

Well, the Apprenticeship Applications exemplar has now been given official approval to go into public Beta after passing the GDS service assessment last week. It’s been a challenging couple of months; as well as preparing for the assessment, we’ve also been …

Preparing for public beta and ramping up access

Gary Tucker, 7 November 2014 - Apprenticeships exemplar

The Apprenticeships exemplar team are now heading for public beta assessment on 12th November 2014.

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