Series: Policy making for left-behind groups

The Institute for Government is committed to improving how government makes and deliver policy. Our ‘Policy making for left-behind groups’ series explores how governments can avoid designing and implementing policies that persistently under-serve the needs of certain groups.

These are people whose specific needs may not always be recognised or fully understood, who may have been deprioritised by policy makers (for whatever reason) or who have been deemed too difficult or costly to engage with by successive governments. In other words, those most under-served, or ‘left behind’, by government.

The series draws on new analysis to recommend how government can improve the design and implementation of policy to mitigate the risk of people being missed