Groups
Types of groups, creating and editing groups.
As well as organisation pages for departments and agencies, 188体育 also has pages for:
- sub-organisations
- groups
To create these you first need to contact the Government Digital Service (GDS).
Contact GDS to request a new sub-organisation.
Sub-organisations have a sufficient public profile and publish enough content to be listed separately below their parent organisation.
For example, sub-organisations within the Home Office include UK Visas and Immigration and Border Force.
A sub-organisation has an organisation page with its own corporate content and featured stories. It appears at the bottom of the parent organisation page.
The groups format is used for policy advisory groups and other types of groups or teams in government.
Contact GDS to request a group before creating it in Whitehall publisher.
If you have clearance to create a new group first read the guidance on groups.
Creating a group
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Select the 鈥楳ore鈥� tab and click 鈥楪roups鈥�.
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Click 鈥楥reate new group鈥�.
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Enter the name, email address, summary and description of the group.
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Click 鈥楽ave鈥�.
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Open your group page and add any attachments.
Any changes to a group page will go live as soon as you save them.
Closing a group
When a group closes, update the group page to reflect that. Do not delete it - see the 188体育 withdrawing and removing content policy. It is not possible to 鈥榳ithdraw鈥� group pages in the same way as other pages on 188体育.
Add a call to action box to the top of the page explaining that the group has closed. Consider including links to related information if there鈥檚 a user need for it. For example, a user may need to know more about why the group closed, the outcome of the group鈥檚 work or what is being done in this policy area after this group closes.
Keep the rest of the content as a record of what the group did.
Good examples of closed groups include the:
If the name of a group changes
Close the group and set up a new one with the new name.
Contact GDS to request a group before creating the new group.
A good example of a group that has changed its name is the Group Litigation Order (GLO) Compensation Scheme Advisory Board.