DfE Developer Hub Alpha Reassessment Report The Department for Education is adopting an API led approach to application integration. From: From: Service description The Department for Education is adopting an API led approach to application integration. As such, there is a widespread need to establish an enterprise-wide approach to managing and governing APIs in order to: promote innovation and support a more integrated approach for suppliers and third parties provide managed access to the department APIs for third-party suppliers increase re-use in APIs simplify integration and enable data to be used more effectively across the department The theme that runs throughout this assessment is a clear view from the assessment panel that the team are close to or at the minimum standard for meeting the service standard. The panel’s concerns and questions are around the broader context of the end-to-end service which they feel is weakly defined and owned by the team.