Working to make government more effective
Working to make government more effective
This event explores how government can better serve children at risk of being ‘left behind’ in their earliest years.
There is more that ministers should be doing to manage the response well.
Ministers and officials are no strangers to working under pressure. How can they do it well?
Former Foreign Office permanent secretary Peter Ricketts joins the team to work out where a week of blame and counter-blame has left the government.
What works in crisis policy making, what doesn’t and why.
Reviewing the bureaucratic hurdles that slow down delivery is a sensible step
Missions require more than just a “lift and shift” of previous government approaches
Government departments must do more to prepare for the next crisis.
This report explores how civil servants can deliver rapid yet robust policies in compressed timeframes.
The pandemic showed the need for government to improve its use of modelling.
Government and regulators must create the right environment for investment.
The prime minister can learn from the past to make a success of “phase two” of his government.
What can the new commission learn from its 2000s predecessor?
The IfG team discuss what the local and mayoral elections mean for Keir Starmer and his government's devolution agenda.
This is the first in a new series exploring how Labour can learn from its experience of tackling complex problems when it was last in government.
The government’s approach to launching independent policy reviews is too ad hoc, inefficient and inconsistent, warns a new IfG report.
The podcast team discuss Keir Starmer's options to fight back against Donald Trump's tariffs. Plus, Andy Burnham is our special guest.
An expert panel explore the use of government reviews – and when they do, or don’t, succeed.
How, when and why are policy reviews used by politicians?
How policy-making processes engage with people whose needs have, to date, been least effectively addressed by government.
Which of the IfG's seven recommendations have been enacted by Keir Starmer's government?
Whitehall is moving away from an outdated concept of the ‘policy generalist’.
Technology is changing and so should the civil service.
Whether there are 67 reviews underway or not, the key is to learn from how past reviews worked.
The government has set up even more reviews than the 14 promised in the Labour manifesto.
Labour says it will operate as a ‘mission-driven government’.
The short life of Fair Pay Agreements in New Zealand shows where things can go wrong and how the new Labour government can do better.
Targeted investments could have big payoffs and ensure the UK is better prepared for the next major crisis.
What can Keir Starmer learn from Jacinda Ardern?
How government could effectively organise itself to deliver missions.