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Open policy making isn't just about the experts

Posted by: Roland Jackson, Posted on: 12 January 2015 - Categories: Uncategorized

When the Head of the Policy Profession, on this blog, states that ‘open policy making is about bringing expert thought, challenge, and innovation into our policy processes’ it seems churlish to say ‘yes, but what does that mean?’. Expertise, and …

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What Works? The UK’s new What Works centres show results at first public presentation

Posted by: David Halpern, Posted on: 1 December 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings

...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 -...

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The time is ripe for evidence-based child policy in the UK

Posted by: Barbara Janta, Posted on: 20 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces

...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...

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Year Here: The power of the unknown

Posted by: Sarah Johnson, Posted on: 10 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces

...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....

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Year Here: Design Methodology and Social Action

Posted by: Xenia Moseley, Posted on: 10 November 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces

...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...

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What comes first

Posted by: Rachel Pascual, Posted on: 13 October 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces
Policing Now recruitment poster shows a smiling woman and an introduction to the programme.

...force. Workshops aren’t uncommon – so what was different about this one? Well, they didn’t just form a team that squirreled away in isolation on the proposition to launch Police...

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