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.
...democracy, the application of robust methods of testing variations of approach in policy and practice - as pushed by the Behavioural Insights Team inside the centre of government itself -...
...wider series - see also our own Paul Maltby on 'why I tweet and who I follow'!) Jessica Bland for Nesta looks at how crowdfunding and peer support infrastructures could...
...of drinking straws. Stalls covered a wide range of policy challenges such as Digital Skills and Open Policy Making and colleagues from the Civil Service Policy Profession Support Unit were...
...online platform. The EPIC project is one contribution from the EU to the increasing need for evidence-based policy making, represented in the UK by the What Works network of...
...we wanted to do with the family test was bring a family perspective to policy making. We want to ensure that when policy makers are looking at how policy will...
...by Involve and Cabinet Office. Dillon Newton writes for FutureGov on design thinking for local authorities and the NHS. Scott Anthony gives us four lessons from the history of innovation....
...the Caxton House Rule. However, one comment was that the information wasn’t sensitive enough to justify using it. That might just be a difference of opinion between civil servants and...
...over again the next day. Just spending the days counting down to the weekend when we can recharge. Maybe I am wrong, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case....
...problem solvers' be applied to social action rather than economic growth? Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO has said “designers are optimistic. They believe there are solutions to tough problems...
...on the qualities of big organisations that makes it hard for them to innovate. Paul Braithwaite talks about the potential for open policy making in Northern Ireland (and says some...