Providing evidence on survivors’ pension benefits
...rigorous findings with the need to deliver at pace, and align with the statutory timescales for the publication of the review. For instance, the research on the pension schemes had...
...rigorous findings with the need to deliver at pace, and align with the statutory timescales for the publication of the review. For instance, the research on the pension schemes had...
...to outcomes. This is open publication of the actual data and documentation used for decision making. The Development Tracker has therefore become a rich tool for DFID staff to use...
...interface Alan Kay said, ‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it’. Best wishes for 2015 from Policy Lab to all its friends! For more...
...means greater productivity for departments and better outcomes for the citizen. The output from the Digital Capability Project will be a cohesive training programme that complements the work being done...
Defra has held its first ever Policy Profession Week which kicked off on 10 November. The week, which was held in partnership with Department for Work and Pensions, brought together...
...it is a relative newcomer in policymaking. Google returns 14.6 million results for ‘agile’ when combined with ‘software’ and a measly (!) 164,000 when teamed with ‘policymaking’. But this is...
...workshops we ran for Foresight’s Future of an Ageing Population project - where the world we were thinking about was actually 2040. By 2040, 30% of the population are going...
...cousin in the Privy Council Office in Canada for example! So we come to the end of our road. But it’s of course not the end for open policy....
...how individuals could be encouraged to invest in social organisations for a return on their investment. I was interested to find out how we could increase funding and support for...
...Basic visualisation has been used for ages to uncover patterns and to create better policy responses. For example, in 1854 John Snow’s mapping of cases of cholera around Soho showed...