Donna Ward, Director of Strategic Policy in the Department for Education, launches Policy Lab's new prospectus. From catalytic interventions to ambitious system change, read on to find out about Policy Lab's methods, offer and impact.
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Next Tuesday (3 Feb) the Government Digital Service is hosting Sprint 15. Over 450 people will be gathering at the British Film Institute. It’s a packed programme as you’ll see from Mike Bracken’s blog post. The Performance Platform is a …
Yesterday we asked about how to use agile for policy making. Last week, Policy Lab experimented with doing it. It kind of makes sense that we should kick-start a piece of work about healthy outcomes with a sprint. But …
On Saturday, I went to UK Govcamp 2015, an all-day event where 200 people interested in innovation, data and digital in the public sector (among other things) get together to talk about - well, whatever they want to talk about …
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
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.
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
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.
When the Head of the Policy Profession, on this blog, states that ‘open policy making is about bringing expert thought, challenge, and innovation into our policy processes’ it seems churlish to say ‘yes, but what does that mean?’. Expertise, and …