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Integrating wellbeing into public policy
In December we had the pleasure of hosting a team from the Hertford Business and Economics Society, and their Principal at Hertford College, Oxford, Will Hutton. The team of students had just completed a study on the implications of wellbeing …
Children’s Wellbeing Workshop
How are children in the UK doing? There is a growing body of high quality evidence on this subject and some deep expertise within UK universities, think tanks and charities. Recent research has indicated that UK children are lagging behind …
Bristol Festival of Economics 2015
The Bristol Festival of Economics took place as part of the Festival of Ideas on 12th-14th November. The Bristol Festival of Ideas has been running since 2005 and the Festival of Economics started in 2011. Two of us from Analysis …
New tools and data sets for impactful policy analysis
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Analysis, Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society, Wellbeing
In September and October many of us attended Civil Service Live at different venues around the country. The events were excellent and packed with seminars, interactive workshops and networking opportunities to share and inspire good practice across a host of …
Promoting Employee Engagement and Wellbeing at Civil Service Live
Civil Service Live is an annual series of interactive, practical and fun events that bring together Civil Servants to learn, network and collaborate. This year’s events took place across the country, from Bristol to Edinburgh, and Manchester to Newcastle, ending …
Innovation in survey methodology - an online approach to survey data collection
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Analysis and Insight, Community Life, Office for Civil Society
The Community Life survey is a Cabinet Office Official Statistic, tracking the latest trends on key policy areas such as volunteering, charitable giving, civic engagement and views on your neighbourhood. It supports the Minister for Civil Society's vision for a …
Code Club at Cabinet Office
Computer coding underpins our everyday lives: from traffic lights to smartphone applications to the webpage you’re reading this on. One of the priorities of the Chief Executive of the Civil Service - John Manzoni - is to improve the digital skills …
A 2015 summer internship in the Analysis and Insight Team
For the last ten weeks I have worked as an Economist within the central analytical hub of the Cabinet Office as part of the Government Economic Service (GES) summer internship programme. As a Government and Economics student at LSE, the …
Government reviews the potential benefits offered by emerging technologies
The Government's Horizon Scanning Team is gearing up to produce a third review of technologies with the potential to boost UK productivity and improve public services. The previous reviews in 2009 and 2012 threw up the likes of 3D printing, smart …
Our work on social impact bonds
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are transforming how the public sector pays service providers to deliver services which help deal with complex social problems. The Analysis and Insight team have recently been providing analysis on SIBs for the Office for Civil …
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