This briefing paper is part of Demos’ work on reforming public services and moving towards a more preventative state. The first paper in the series focused on the vision of a preventative state and suggested the idea of Treasury reform to support it. This briefing document is designed to flesh out more about how that...

The period from 2010 to 2016 has been rightly hailed as transformational for the UK offshore wind sector. This report looks at how the government initiated, designed and implemented offshore wind policy in the years 2010–2016.

While the United States and European Union look to scale up investment into a green transition, the United Kingdom is pulling in the opposite direction. The different policy and political contexts between each government’s approach mean that UK cannot simply copy its counterparts. However, there are key lessons and policies that the authors of this...

The purpose of this report is to provide policy-makers and practitioners in government with an overview of controversial deployments of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the public sector, and to highlight some of the approaches being taken to govern the responsible use of these technologies in government.

This report reviews the landscape of evidence institutes, and explore if a new evidence institute in Australia, focused specifically on disadvantage, would help break cycles of disadvantage.