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Next generation public policy design

Posted by: Andrew Knight and Lucy Kimbell, Posted on: 19 May 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Dr Lucy Kimbell and Andrew Knight write about a major new initiative to join up government and universities on championing design as key for making policy and services that drive outstanding public value.

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New strategy for policy design

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 12 May 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign
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Andrew Knight writes about the ambitious new plans of the UK Government’s Policy Design Community for building a thriving network for design experts and embedding design into government’s day-to-day way of working.

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Making a service map ...in a policy department

Posted by: Alice Goldman, Posted on: 24 February 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Alice Whitehead writes about how the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities produced created a service map.

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What do policymakers do all day?

Posted by: Jonathan Mills, Posted on: 6 January 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Jonathan Mills from the Department for Work and Pensions writes about how the focus of policymakers is becoming more multidisciplinary.

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What do you need to thrive in your job?

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 25 November 2021 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Andrew Knight from the UK's Policy Profession writes about how you can get involved with reforming government.

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Achieving policy excellence with Austin's Butterfly

Posted by: Kate Lloyd, Posted on: 14 October 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Kate Lloyd from the Home Office writes about how the UK’s government might have acted differently in the case of the Windrush scandal.

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Working together to de-mystify policy

Posted by: Gareth Davies, Posted on: 7 October 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Gareth Davies, Director General at Department for Transport, reveals what policymakers do in their jobs day-to-day and his ambition for the profession to better reflect the diversity of UK citizens.

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Making multidisciplinary teams work better

Posted by: Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell, Posted on: 16 September 2021 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell from DWP write about the challenges of making policy design teams work well.

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Making public policy more inclusive

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 2 September 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, reports what policymakers and the evidence base says about inclusive citizen centred design.

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Evidence can drive public value

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 12 August 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, writes about what policymakers and the evidence base says about how designing policy with evidence can increase public value.

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