Gavin Freeguard
Associate
Gavin's recent work
Ministerial directions
Ministerial directions are formal instructions telling departments to proceed with a spending proposal, despite objection from permanent secretaries.
Six lessons government should learn from the Post Office scandal
The handling of the Post Office scandal has wider lessons for government.
Doing data justice
The justice sector needs a system-wide data strategy to address current deficiencies.
All work
Legislation to support data sharing
What lessons does government need to learn about data sharing from the Covid pandemic?
Setting a new direction for the Information Commissioner's Office
This readout summarises a private roundtable organised at the request of DCMS, to support its consultation Data: A new direction.
Government needs to beware the easy promise of Covid certification
Covid certification is not a straightforward solution to returning the country to some form of pre-pandemic normality
Digital government during the coronavirus crisis
The coronavirus crisis has accelerated the digital transformation of public service delivery and government use of data.
The government's coronavirus data presentation is on the downslide
The government needs to urgently improve how it communicates data
Four things government must learn from the A-level algorithm fiasco
The government to learn from the shambolic handling of A-level results
Missing Numbers in Children’s Services
What data is available on children’s centres and youth services, and how government might overcome the barriers they face improving this data.
Boris Johnson should implement previous race review recommendations before starting a new one
The prime minister has failed to explain why a new commission on racial inequality will succeed
Personal data and coronavirus
How the UK government is planning to use our data to tackle the coronavirus
Poor chart rating for the government’s coronavirus communications strategy
Gavin Freeguard is unimpressed with the government's data visualisation attempts