Policy Lab provides an experimental environment for testing and evaluating new ways to make policy. In our ten-year history we have created space for designers, technologists, ethnographers and other novel practitioners, all with the aim to make policy more effective, …
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 …
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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 …
November 25th saw the publication of a collection of early conclusions from the What Works Network - the family of institutions created to put evidence in the hands of commissioners and professionals.
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
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 policy-makers from all levels, with multiple seminars, events and skill …
Nov. 20th marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This Convention is the most rapidly and widely ratified international human rights treaty in history. This unprecedented acceptance of the UNCRC clearly …
In August the Prime Minister announced that all new policy would be subject to a test on how it impacted families, and the Family Policy team in DWP were asked to develop what has become the Family Test. Families often …
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
How do you talk about the problems you are facing in making policy without running the risk that what you say will be used against you?