This report looks at how the last Labour government in the United Kingdom of the late 1990s and 2000s addressed the issue of school absence. It makes 12 recommendations on how the government should tackle school absence now, and draws out wider lessons for the approach to mission-led government. It finds the single biggest cause...

This report brings together the results of an investigation into how best to measure social and cultural infrastructure. It develops a framework for measuring the assets, facilities and spaces that make up shared social and cultural infrastructure, and considers its practical applications for a range of organisations.

Every UK Government minister has a private office – a small team of public servants dedicated to supporting ministerial duties and decisions. This resource for private office teams is a guide for a conversation with ministers about how they want things to work in the office. It sets out key questions to ask the minister...

This report describes an exercise to investigate the robustness and reliability of using generative AI to help produce rapid evidence reviews. The AI-assisted output was completed in 23% less time than the human-only output but was judged to be less fluent and required more revisions.

The playbook aims to support government teams embarking on test-and-learn projects. It explains how to build and run public policies and services using a test-and-learn approach, setting out a wide range of methodologies for each stage of the innovation cycle. It’s intended as a practical resource for teams to design and test solutions in an...