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.
Earlier this year, Civil Service Quarterly ran an article I wrote about the wellbeing policy programme, where I was working at the time.
A couple of weeks ago, friends of Policy Lab gathered together to celebrate progress on the Lab's first project - and made a surprise announcement of the second major project! Read on to find out what we'll be doing with …
What do you get when you put a graphic designer, chief constable, digital expert and a futurologist in a room and let their creative juices flow?
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
Last week I attended the final session of a public dialogue on community rights and wellbeing, supported by Sciencewise and organised by the New Economics Foundation, the Cabinet Office and Hopkins Van Mil.
Open Policy Making is about improving the way we work and the policy advice we provide to Ministers.
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
As followers of our Twitter will know, this week OPM have been at Civil Service Live in London.
Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.
Last week, I went to visit the Government Digital Service (GDS) at their offices in Holborn, invited by a colleague who recently left us on the OPM team to take up a post there.