Policy paper: Open standards for government
Updated: Added open standards for sharing calendar events and contacts information.The UK government is selecting a set of open standards for use in government technology. The aim is to apply these...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Open formats implementation plan
Open formats allow government departments, their suppliers, and citizens to be able to work together without having to pay for specific software. This will mean that departments will be able to choose...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: behavioural insights
About behavioural insightsBehavioural insights applies findings from the behavioural sciences – for example behavioural economics and experimental psychology – to public policy. Behavioural sciences...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: ethnography
Ethnography is one of the many qualitative research approaches in the social sciences. It involves tools that can be applied to policy and public services to generate insights that can give you...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit
The toolkit brings together the latest techniques to improve making and delivering policy. Many civil servants are already successfully using these methods across government. The toolkit can help you...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Social investment tax relief: Budget 2015 announcements
The social investment tax relief (SITR) introduced in the Finance Act 2014 was the first in the world to incentivise social investment through the personal tax system. The government has made further...
View ArticleCollection: Social investment tax relief
Updated: Added information on Budget 2015 announcements.If you make a qualifying investment in a social enterprise, including a charity, Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) can:give you a reduction of...
View ArticleNews story: New social impact bonds to support public services
Seven new Social Impact Bond investment schemes aim to support social entrepreneurs and help to reform public services. The UK now has more Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) than the rest of the world put...
View ArticlePress release: Government creates new business to save up to £105 million in...
A new joint venture business has been created to host government computer servers.Crown Hosting Data Centres is a new joint venture between the government and the SMEArk Data Centres Limited, and will...
View ArticleGuidance: Business Statements: Office of the Leader of the House of Commons,...
Updated: Added 19 March business statement.This page sets out the Business Statements by the Leader of the House of Commons for March 2015.The Business Statement takes place every Thursday morning when...
View ArticleSpeech: Social investment for better public services
It is a pleasure to be here. Represented in this room are all of Whitehall’s largest departments, alongside local government, businesses, charities and many others.Indeed today’s conference is all...
View ArticleDetailed guide: The Commissioning Academy
Updated: Added link to case studies.OverviewTo increase government efficiency, we need to improve public service commissioning. This means improving the skills of public sector leaders so their teams...
View ArticleTransparency data: Payroll costs and non-consolidated pay data, Cabinet...
Updated: Added non-consolidated pay data.Monthly management information on staff numbers and paybill costs, and non-consolidated performance related pay data for Cabinet Office.Notes to accompany the...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office absence data
Updated: December data added.Reports providing brief commentary on the Cabinet Office sick absence results.
View ArticlePolicy paper: Centre for Social Action funding
Social action is about people coming together to help improve their lives and solve the problems that are important in their communities. It can include volunteering, giving money, community action or...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: randomised control trials
Randomised control trials (RCTs) are a type of trial and evaluation. They began in medical and pharmacological testing and are now increasingly used in international development, business, and policy...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: idea generation
Civil servants generate ideas all the time, but may not have considered using the wide range of techniques available to support them, many of which are at no or low cost.These techniques are useful all...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: prototyping
Prototyping is trying an idea out to see how it might work, before the pilot stage. Prototypes can take many forms, from simple physical models to role play and more elaborate digital or physical...
View ArticleDetailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: deliberative dialogue
This guide is about how to run a deliberative dialogue process to add to your knowledge about your policy. A deliberative dialogue is not simply a meeting with the public and a discussion: it is a...
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Detailed guide: Open policy making toolkit: data science
Data science uses powerful computers and advanced techniques to analyse and visualise big and complex data to provide useful insight.We already benefit from data science in our everyday lives, for...
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