Fighting poverty by working with those most affected
...for five years and will run ten challenges around poverty. The first is ‘how to make low-income urban areas safer and more empowering for women and girls’. The team work...
...for five years and will run ten challenges around poverty. The first is ‘how to make low-income urban areas safer and more empowering for women and girls’. The team work...
...can be tested with users and improved. And now the Home Secretary is talking about prototypes in her speech. This is great news for policymakers and for the public. Prototyping...
...the weeks progress, we’re looking forward to doing some practical things for ourselves. Coding allows you to build websites and apps, publish books, make games and much more. We can’t...
...then chose a shortlist of ideas to work on. This shortlist became the blueprint for Southwark’s transformation programme. Read more about Using design to transform local government. For more information...
I joined the Partnerships Team in late July from a small research consultancy that worked with start ups and social enterprise organisations. The ‘open’ movement in all its forms is...
...the coming years, for example projects on field trips for schoolkids and better shelter for homeless people. Official partnership In October 2011 we started an official partnership with the...
...on #northernfutures! Have you signed up for the open ideas days on October 16th? Pen and pencil infographic - Andrea Siodmok (Policy Lab) Dave Briggs is going. (Have a look...
...gathering ideas for the Deputy Prime Minister's Northern Futures project. https://storify.com/OpenPolicyUK/open-ideas-days And this is just a selection! For more about what happened, check out #northernfutures and #GN2030 on Twitter,...
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...
...in the Department for Work and Pensions and now the Department for Education, I have seen first-hand how these methods are appropriate for complex challenges involving citizens and users. Donna...