Making the case for rigorous, evidence-based policymaking
Proper evaluation of policy is crucial, but won't be enough on its own.
Editor's blog: will Whitehall turnover prove good or bad for reform?
With senior civil servants leaving in droves, can the government retain good people to drive through change?
Goodbye, minister: civil service hit by staff exodus
Turnover of top staff risks leaving civil service short of expertise
Government Needs To Make 'Fundamental Changes' To Meet Spending Challenge, Says NAO
Government departments need to make "fundamental changes" to successfully cut spending by 2015, spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.
Will LSE's growth commission make a difference?
Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers and current OBR (and ex-MPC) member Steve Nickell have given evidence
Carry on policy-making: the case for change in Whitehall
Successful policies will need greater change in Whitehall: David Walker urges the Institute for Government to keep stacking up the ammunition
Learning lessons from history proves to be the best policy
History is littered with the failures of cherished government policies...The failures make media headlines. Lessons are drawn from them by academics and by the National Audit Office...Far less attention is paid to the successes. But they do exist.
Who is taking the biggest hit from grim public sector job stats?
The latest employment figures from the Office of National Statistics make grim reading for all those working in and with the public sector...But which sections of the public sector are facing the worst of the cuts?
Whitehall 'being hit hardest in jobs cull'
Civil servants across Whitehall are taking the biggest hit in terms of public sector job cuts, the Institute for Government has said, with 8,770 jobs going in the last quarter.
Whitehall jobs bear brunt of public-sector spending cuts
The report by the respected Institute for Government found that Whitehall has been slashed by 10.9 per cent since the Spending Review last autumn, compared with 6.8 per cent for the non-Whitehall civil service and 4.3 per cent for the wider public sector including schools, hospitals and town halls.
