People across the civil service, public and private sectors are delivering and working using Open Policy Making tools, techniques and design thinking. Here can read about their learnings and findings in the field.
Successive Governments have sought to perfect policy on dog control and welfare. These are high profile issues – regularly topping MPs’ and Defra’s post bags. Government is pressed to take action, to have a policy and to change the law. …
Do you remember getting your National Insurance number? The red, blue and white card with the 9 characters across the front. How did you remember it? When did you use it? And how did it make you feel to receive …
For the last year I’ve been head of secretariat to the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England (AHWBE). New Year is a time to take stock and look back on achievements and opportunities, but most of all on what …
Last week the Home Secretary announced that Surrey and Sussex would trial a prototype online crime reporting service which could save around £3.7 million if it is offered nationally on police.uk. This was one of the ideas developed as part …
One of our top priorities for this year is to build an open policy making toolkit. When our programme started, people wanted to know ‘what is open policy making?’ Now, the question is more often ‘how do I do it?’
Government today is moving inexorably towards being open, innovative and digital. This is especially true over at Ministry of Justice Digital Services, where we’re putting ourselves at the forefront of organisational change.
At the beginning of January we welcomed back Hannah Rutter. This is her first blog and we asked her what differences she's found on her return.
Set up in April 2014, Policy Lab brings new tools and techniques, new insights and practical experimentation to policy-making. This second demonstrator project has over the past two months resulted in learning about how policy professionals can work in a …
Chartered surveyors have their chartership, lawyers and engineers have their skills widely recognised. What if there was equivalent professional recognition for policy officials? It’s an interesting question – read on to find out the results of a ‘Lab Light’ workshop …
When I was appointed as Cabinet Secretary back in January 2012, I spoke of my ambition to increase evidence based policy making and for independent arbiters, equivalent to NICE, to encourage third party investors to back public policy interventions that …