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Guest blog: Evidence check – are the Department for Education’s policies evidence-based?
Who is checking the Department for Education's homework?
Morale compass points in the right direction: Civil Service engagement in 2014
Positive overall results, but concern about pay.
Taking transparency to taskforce
Yesterday’s launch of the Open Contracting Data Standard marked a significant step in enabling governments to be more transparent about their contract
Special advice: how to make a prime ministerial unit work
How to be a Tsar.
Lord Browne - Successes but ragged at the edges
Does Whitehall welcome businesspeople?
Charting the challenges for the next Government
How is Whitehall faring?
How my experience can help make better policy
Engaging with lived experiences is vital for making good policy.
That the question be not now put
What did Yvette Cooper just not now do?
Resolving confusion: the unaddressed issue of public bodies reform
How is public body reform faring?
The National Security Council - its history and its future
The National Security Council was one of the coalition government’s first creations in May 2010. The Institute for Government and Whitehall History pr