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  • Great Wall of Reuse board with sticky notes at the SD in Gov conference in Edinburgh

    GOV Reuse Library turns one at SD in Gov

    1 October 2026

    A year after launching the GOV Reuse Library, we took it to SD in Gov in Edinburgh to share what we’ve learned so far about reuse across government.

    Our goal was to bring together useful things that already exist across government and make them easier to find. A year on, thousands of people have come through the library, found something useful, and followed it back to the team or resource it came from.

    Over that year, we’ve learned that finding the resource is often only one part of the job. People also need to understand what something is for, whether it will work in their context, how current it is, and sometimes who they can speak to about it.

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    At SD in Gov, we talked through some of the things we’ve been trying in response to that, including better discovery, connecting design systems, different ways into the library, and how we might support more informal sharing between teams.

    We also set up a Great Wall of Reuse at the conference. We asked people two questions: what are you looking to reuse, and what have you made that someone else could reuse?

    Some of the things people shared included a request for “personas and research about accessibility and inclusion”. Others offered resources they already had, including DWP internal style guides for health and disability and Universal Credit, and work on safeguarding and trauma-informed design.

    It gave us a useful glimpse of what could happen if more of this work was visible across government. People are looking for things that already exist, and other teams are often happy to share them.

    As we head into the library’s second year, we want to work with more people across government to find that work, understand what would be useful to share, and keep improving the library based on what people actually need.

    If your team has something that others could reuse, or you’d like to get involved in the work, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • GOV.UK Design System community resources and tools added

    1 October 2026

    We’ve added the GOV.UK Design System community resources and tools to the GOV Reuse Library, making community-contributed resources easier to find. Explore GOV.UK Design System community resources and tools .

  • AI Knowledge Hub added

    1 October 2026

    We’ve added the AI Knowledge Hub to the GOV Reuse Library, making guidance and resources about artificial intelligence easier to find. Explore the AI Knowledge Hub .

  • Artificial intelligence resources for the public sector added

    1 October 2026

    We’ve added the GOV.UK collection of artificial intelligence resources for the public sector to the GOV Reuse Library, making government AI guidance and resources easier to find. Explore artificial intelligence resources for the public sector .

  • Panel discussion at the Local Public Services Innovation Summit

    GOV Reuse Library joins the #ReuseAndShare conversation

    18 September 2026

    The GOV Reuse Library joined local government and technology leaders at techUK’s Local Public Services Innovation Summit to discuss how sharing and reusing existing work can help public sector teams avoid duplication. The #ReuseAndShare session brought together central government, local government and industry to explore how teams can collaborate, build on what already works and make technology easier to reuse across public services. View the Local Public Services Innovation Summit .

  • Department for Education Design System added

    7 September 2026

    We’ve added the Department for Education Design System to the GOV Reuse Library, making it easier to find and learn from components, patterns and guidance used by Department for Education teams. Explore the Department for Education Design System .

  • AI context file link fixed

    7 September 2026

    We’ve fixed the broken link to the AI context file for the GOV.UK Prototype Kit. View the AI context file .

  • Getting started with reuse

    7 September 2026

    Our new guide brings together useful resources for people designing, researching, developing or managing government services. It helps you start with work that already exists, find research and evidence, use artificial intelligence responsibly, make services accessible and inclusive, understand how service teams work, and find relevant government standards and guidance.

    This is our first guide of this kind, and we’re researching and testing how useful this approach is. What we learn will help us understand how the GOV Reuse Library can better support people to discover relevant resources and know where to start. Explore the Getting started with reuse guide .