A playbook to help public servants and those interested in developing impactful policy outcomes. It offers a framework for public servants to develop and deliver better policies and policy outcomes, outlining how to bring policies to life and make them measurable, impactful and adaptive. It is organised into three key sections: frameworks, fitness and foundations.

Drawing on United Kingdom (UK) engagement and international case studies, this paper identifies core design principles and eight key characteristics of successful long-term strategy-making. It develops them into practical lessons and proposed design features for system reforms that could help transform democracies like the UK to be more long-termist and capable at navigating challenges ahead.

The playbook is a practical and open-source account of what national strategy should look like in the United Kingdom (UK) – to make the UK more long-term, bolder in solutions, and able to mobilise all national capacities, not just central government. The playbook sets out the steps, stakeholders and tools involved, offering choices to suit...

This report focuses on the innovative ways in which local government can support housing delivery. Specifically, it addresses how local governments can intervene to improve housing production and supply, while also improving the sustainability and quality of housing within their jurisdictions. It provides policy insights for local government interventions to improve housing outcomes.

This report summarises how to assess and compare dynamic capabilities across city governments, provides an assessment of dynamic capabilities in a selected sample of cities, and sets out future work that will explore how to create an index that can be scaled and used to effectively build capabilities, positively transforming cities and creating better lives...