This report provides governments with a practical manual for how to achieve better outcomes for the people they serve. It identifies six principles for an effective approach to transformational government change and makes 13 recommendations for practical actions that governments can take to ensure systems are set up to put wellbeing at the heart of...

This handbook provides guidance to develop policy in a coherent and consistent manner across the Irish civil service. It sets out a framework and structured approach to support policy development built around two key features: the Three Pillar Framework and the five phase model that a typical policy would follow. Case studies illustrate phases in...

The benchmarks provide a set of research-informed policy recommendations that put respect, work, care and gender equality at the centre of public life as the foundation of a productive and growing economy. The benchmarks recognise and support the interconnections of work and care in six key domains.

How 'bad' public policy happens and what makes for bad public policy are the subject of this report. It identifies five inherent vices of policy – unpreparedness, non-learning, uncertainty, maliciousness, and non-compliance – and outlines a set of management practices that can help inform policy design and curb the worst excesses of bad policy.

This report outlines five key lessons of the value and usefulness of the Statement of Public Interest (SPI), introduced in the NSW Parliament in 2022 as a mechanism to support high quality and evidence-based legislative policymaking processes. It also makes six associated recommendations to overcome identified challenges to the SPI delivering on its objectives.