Professional standards

Government should lead by example on professional standards for IT and digital

Technologists working in the field of public services now have some profound responsibilities, which should be accompanied by greater safeguards provided by professional bodies, argues Nicole Symes Frazer of BCS

Last month, during the second ever Chartered Week, more than 40 professional bodies representing over 1.5 million professionals wrote to government with a simple message: if the UK wants to rebuild trust in public services and deliver reliable digital systems, it must take professional standards seriously.

A serious issue, but suppose we widen our ambitions and change the headline to something more radical -

Government should lead by example on professional standards 

 

We could go further -

Government should lead by example on political standards