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Multidisciplinary course is a hit

Posted by: Susan Acland-Hood, Posted on: 18 May 2023 - Categories: Case study, Events, PublicPolicyDesign
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Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood writes about Department for Education's succesful new multidisciplinary course.

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Back to school: pupil designer wins award

Posted by: Lily Macaskill and Laura Gray, Posted on: 8 September 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Lily Macaskill, Year 12 pupil at Alexandra Park School, in conversation with her teacher Laura Gray, on winning a national prize for design

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Innovating public services at scale

Posted by: Rachel Hope and Andrew Knight, Posted on: 21 October 2021 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Rachel Hope and Andrew Knight from the UK's Department for Education write about how public services for teachers have been transformed and how governments can scale innovative ways of working.

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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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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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11 things policymakers need to improve outcomes for citizens

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 1 July 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, writes about what policymakers say they need to deliver more meaningful outcomes for citizens.

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What does it mean to transform policy making?

Posted by: Simon Parker, Posted on: 27 May 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Policymakers are keen to modernise their practice. Simon Parker, the UK government's leader for transformation and policy capability, writes about how policymaking may change in the future.

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