Medical matters
To use our public roads safely, you must make sure your medical condition won't affect your ability to drive. Dr Nick Jenkins, DVLA’s Senior Doctor, explains how the work we do contributes to the safety of all road users.
Features
Recognising our apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week 2021
...support from my colleagues and apprenticeship ambassadors, I have managed to secure a permanent full-time job in my current role as an EUC engineer. Without this apprenticeship, I wouldn’t have...
Bats, bees and trees: DVLA’s latest biodiversity action plan
The fourth DVLA Biodiversity Action Plan sets out the framework for how we protect and improve the biodiversity that exists on our estate. Andrew Lees from the Sustainability Team tells us more…
DVLA’s bilingual online services: behind the scenes
...to provide translations of forms, letters and online services. My first step was to include these requirements from the very start for our vehicle change of address (or VCOA for...
Business Analysis Programme at DVLA - twelve months on
Our Business Analyst Development Programme started twelve months ago, and the programme is thriving. Geraint Crocker, DVLA Business Analysis Lead, tells us more.
From PA to Analyst
Jodie Lewis, an IT Business Analyst (BA), tells us about her career development at DVLA, from PA to Business Analyst.
Creating great online services: how we test services in our research lab
Our User Experience (UX) team help us to improve online services for our users when they transact with DVLA. Dan Williamson, User Research Lead, explains more about user testing at DVLA.
How DVLA’s corporate induction process helps new starters
...mandatory training be inducted into my new team attend several induction workshops I fully expected my induction to cover security, data protection, health and safety, and how to conduct yourself...
DVLA: encouraging the IT experts of tomorrow
DVLA has come up with a series of initiatives to encourage more IT experts of the future, with a particular focus on girls. Capability and Talent Development Lead, Karen Clark, tells us more.
Our waste, our responsibility
DVLA’s new Information Technology Services (ITS) waste contract allows all our old IT equipment, from laptops to toner cartridges and everything in between, to be resold, reused or recycled. Lynwen Tipler, ITS, explains more.