Cassia Rowland
Associate Director
All work
How to deliver digital transformation in public services
A practical guide to improve the design and delivery of digital transformation programmes in public services.
Scrapping the Public Sector Equality Duty won’t create the change Badenoch wants
Kemi Badenoch’s speech at the IfG saw her pledge to abolish the Public Sector Equality Duty.
A ‘radical overhaul’ is the wrong move for the youth justice system
The government’s white paper risks undermining one of the few public services currently working well
Ten things we learned from the King’s Speech 2026
What did the King’s Speech tell us about the government’s priorities for the new session?
Beyond reasonable doubt?: Reviewing proposed reforms to jury trials
There is a lot of uncertainty attached to the potential benefits of the government’s proposed reforms.
A new national police force is the right move, but the case for merging local forces is much weaker
There is much to welcome in the home secretary’s proposals on police reform.
The government needs to set out how it will achieve its vision of a modern digital state
Digital transformation has not needed a new vision. It has needed a better plan.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
David Lammy’s proposals for judge-only trials would make England and Wales an outlier
Most countries don’t use jury trials, but few rely on a single judge to pass both verdict and sentence
Abolishing police and crime commissioners now is putting the cart before the horse
The benefits of new ‘policing boards’ over police and crime commissioners are far from clear.