How to use the new taxonomy

You’ll find 2 new stages in the publishing workflow after you create or edit a document:

• topic taxonomy tagging

• legacy tagging (policies, policy areas, and specialist sectors)

Tagging topics (new taxonomy)

You are now presented with the full GOV.UK taxonomy and asked to tag your content to the topic(s) that best describe what the content is about.

Tagging is compulsory - you will not be able to publish a document without it being tagged to at least one topic.

Look under ‘health and social care’ and then 'Public health' for PHE topics. Try to choose the most low-level topics you can. Drill down by selecting the arrows to the left of the high-level topics to open the full menu of topics.

Untick any topics tagged to your content which you don’t feel are suitable – drill down to find the most appropriate topic. The system has auto-tagged PHE content so some of the topics won't be appropriate - for example ‘National Health Service’ is more suited to information about working for the NHS.

Tag your content to as many topics as are relevant - there’s no limit to the number of tags you can choose.

If there’s no topic that describes what your content is about, you can suggest a new topic or a change to a topic.

Taxonomy feedback

The taxonomy is not finished so your feedback is really valuable to make improvements. This is overseen by the GDS (Government Digital Service).

You can submit feedback about the topic taxonomy through 2 forms in the tagging workflow:

• Suggest a new topic
• Suggest a change to a topic (for example, its name or position in the taxonomy)

Legacy tagging

Policies, policy areas, and specialist sectors have moved out of the main edit page into a separate stage of the workflow. These ‘legacy tags’ will be replaced by the topic taxonomy and retired at some point in the future.