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Barking up the wrong tree? Refining dog control policy

Posted by: Andy Howarth, Posted on: 11 February 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings
A barking dog pulls on his lead.

Successive Governments have sought to perfect policy on dog control and welfare. These are high profile issues – regularly topping MPs’ and Defra’s post bags. Government is pressed to take action, to have a policy and to change the law. …

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Being the Secretariat of an Open Policy Pilot – the AHWBE

Posted by: Helen Jeffries, Posted on: 4 February 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques

...as in the companion animal and horses sectors) and increased the engagement of existing stakeholder groups to develop and implement the Bovine Tuberculosis Strategy; Tested and iterated the approach to...

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Reporting Defra's first ever Policy Profession Week

Posted by: Melanie Southan, Posted on: 24 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
A group of about 40 people is standing in a circle, listening to a speaker.

...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...

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