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Better Policy Making in the United Kingdom: Some Recent Developments

Better Policy Making in the United Kingdom: Some Recent Developments. MODERNISING GOVERNMENT. Ensuring that policy making is more joined up and strategic Making sure that public service users , not providers, are the focus, by matching services more closely to people’s lives

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Better Policy Making in the United Kingdom: Some Recent Developments

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  1. Better Policy Making in theUnited Kingdom:Some Recent Developments

  2. MODERNISING GOVERNMENT Ensuring that policy making is more joined up and strategic Making sure that public service users, not providers, are the focus, by matching services more closely to people’s lives Delivering public services that are high quality and efficient.

  3. WHAT IS POLICY MAKING? “The process by which governments translate their political vision into programmes and actions to deliver ‘outcomes’ - desired changes in the real world. … Government cannot succeed in delivering the outcomes people want if the policies and programmes they are implementing are flawed or inadequate.” (Modernising Government White Paper)

  4. KEY PRINCIPLES FOR A NEW APPROACH Designing policy around shared goals and carefully defined results, not around organisational structures or existing functions Making sure policies are inclusive Avoiding imposing unnecessary burdens Involving others in policy making Improving the way risk is managed Becoming more forward and outward looking Learning from experience (Modernising Government White Paper)

  5. PROFESSIONAL POLICY MAKING FOR THE 21st CENTURY Forward looking Outward looking Innovative and creative Evidence-based Inclusive Joined up Review Evaluation Learns lessons

  6. FOUR KEY AREAS Peer review Joint training of Ministers and policy makers Benchmarking The knowledge pool (Professional Policy Making for the 21st century)

  7. NEW SKILLS Understanding the context Managing complex relationships Presentational skills Understanding of information technology Grounding in economics, statistics and relevant scientific disciplines Project management disciplines Managing risks Willingness to learn (Professional Policy Making for the 21st century)

  8. BETTER POLICY MAKING Issues: • lack of time or money • need for investment in appropriate information technology • more training, secondments and exchanges • changes in organisational structure and culture • greater encouragement to innovate and take risks

  9. Modernising Government (White Paper, March 1999) Professional Policy Making in the 21st Century (Cabinet Office report, September 1999) Wiring It Up (Cabinet Office report, January 2000) Adding It Up (Cabinet Office report, January 2000) Better Policy Making (Cabinet Office report, November 2001) www.cabinet-office.gov.uk

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