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  1. EU (Withdrawal) Act and Common Frameworks, as well as in a publication in June 2019, providing an update on progress in common frameworks, which included an illustration of the delivery process...

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    • Theory Informed by Practice and Practice Informed by Theory
    • Where Did The Idea For 'Government as A System' Come from?
    • Why Systems Thinking Matters
    • What Is Government as A System?
    • Good Process For Good Governance
    • Developing The Toolkit
    • What Do You think?

    Having delivered over 50 projects in Policy Lab over the last six years, it is clear to me that the way we work, the processes we deploy and the tools we apply can be codified. Our theories and insights are always grounded in practical projects, through our work on the ground with policymakers and communities. Every year we reflect across our proje...

    Over the last few years we have been testing a model to describe different kinds of government influence – we initially called this framework ‘Styles of Government Action’. It has helped us to reveal the different government levers or styles of action that policymakers use when developing new ideas for policy. In our original framework (shown below...

    As someone who has worked in local government, central government and NGOs, I have become increasingly convinced of the value of more joined up policymaking across the system. It was therefore important to me to ensure that the new version of the framework responded to both the adaptations already made by others, as well as making a step change imp...

    The new toolkit crosses local, central and international government action. It has many of the elements of the previous framework but also covers new ground. The most obvious is that we have changed the horizontal axis to better reflect the way government works in practice. This has meant including a number of new areas namely, influencing, engagin...

    Building the Government as a System toolkit was in itself revealing. It shows a potentially helpful sequential process behind government action at local, national and international levels. This now forms the horizontal axis of the new framework, as shown below. In my session with Matthew Taylor, he noted the importance of process in creating succes...

    From this new framework we have gone further. The screenshot below shows a simpler version of the framework, stripped back to the just the actions, from which we can see the patterns of action more clearly. We have used this to build an interactive tool (this link is to an animation demonstration)and we’ll soon be publishing a Trello version so tha...

    We are running a number of sessions on climate change later in the month, as well as different ‘Policy School’ workshops where we will test and adapt the draft framework and tools. We hope our toolkit can be useful to help foster greater collaboration on the issues that cross local, central and international government contexts. We also really welc...

  2. The system resembles a balance of powers more than a formal separation of the three branches, or what Walter Bagehot called a “fusion of powers” in The English Constitution. In the last decade the concept of a separation of powers has evident in a number of policy initiatives.

  3. the Coronavirus Act 2020. This report considers the following matters: • The Government’s approach to COVID-19 legislation and the framework for parliamentary scrutiny. • The Government’s use of guidance during the pandemic and the implications this has had for the rule of law.

  4. INTRODUCTION. This first guide provides an introduction to the policymaking process, focusing on the UK Government and Parliament, how policies are developed and the diference between policy and legislation.

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  5. www.legislation.gov.uk › understanding-legislationUnderstanding Legislation

    Dec 31, 2020 · An Act is a Bill that has been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and been given Royal Assent by the Monarch. Taken together, Acts of Parliament make up what is known...

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  7. This briefing outlines the Public Sector Equality Duty contained in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, which requires public authorities to have due regard to several equality considerations when exercising their functions.

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