A team of Policy Fellows are bringing new insights and challenge to policy making in the Department for Education (DfE). Nicole Berry and Bridie Tooher from the DfE’s Strategy Unit, explain how embedding seven ‘outsiders’ is raising capability across the department.
Government interest is growing in the potential for design to improve policy. Miles Ayling, Director of Innovation at NHS England and Catherine Makin, Project Manager for Health at the Design Council, explain how a partnership between NHS England and the Design Council has reduced aggression, improved staff morale and led to better patient experience across A&E departments.
Data science is an emerging discipline which combines analysis, programming and business knowledge and uses new and advanced techniques and technologies to work with complex data. Jonathan Athow, John Lord and Claire Potter, from Knowledge Analysis and Intelligence at HMRC, explain how HMRC are making better use of data to tackle non-compliance.
Government departments create reams of data. Linked with other data sources it can provide powerful insights for individuals and communities. Steve Peters from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) discusses how they are developing smarter ways to link information together online.
Women everywhere should have the right to decide when and whether they have children. No child should be malnourished – undermining their health and future potential. Together we can wipe killer diseases like malaria and TB off the face of the …
Governments aren’t often praised for introducing new costs on an everyday item. But the introduction of the single-use carrier bag charge in Wales has won the support of retailers and consumers alike, says Matthew Quinn from the Welsh Government. With …
English secondary schools are held accountable in two ways. The government publishes data about exam results, and Ofsted inspects schools, taking the data into account. But a major shift in how success is measured for GCSEs is coming, writes Tim …
Pete Thompson is Deputy Chief Executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, a government agency that applies science and technology to the defence and security of the UK. How did he get there? I’ve had a varied and interesting …
On 18-19 January the Foreign Office invited coders to explore what they could do with the FCO's 50+ datasets released as part of the Transparency Agenda.
Getting out of the office can really challenge your assumptions. Nicola Hughes, from the Institute for Government, spoke to two civil servants who have been learning how important it is to do that. Cat Drew and Pat Russell are two …
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