Gavin Freeguard
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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
Hacking organograms: unlocking government data
Gavin Freeguard argues departmental organograms are a great example of how transparency data can be used to assess Government effectiveness and invite
Why reforming government accounts matters
A new report says government needs to do more to make financial data usable by Parliament and the wider public. Gavin Freeguard says it’s on the money
It’s time to bin ‘Take Out The Trash Day’
The day, or days, at the start of recess have become good days for government to get out anything it wants to bury. Gavin Freeguard tell us what is in
Whitehall Monitor 2017
The Government is trying to do too much as it prepares for Brexit, according to our analysis.