Case studies: Real-life examples of government activity

Sexual Health Teesside is a collaboratively commissioned sexual health service with a prime provider that works to one contract signed by all 7 commissioners.

A review of Coventry City Council's statement of licensing policy (SLP) benefits from considering public health and health equality issues.

Government-backed working capital helps technology company secure landmark deal in the US.

GAD produces a quinquennial which is an examination of the National Insurance Fund’s future to assist with government policy.

Protecting pensions of NHS supply chain workers

GAD provided advice and assistance for an Environment Agency transfer of staff to Defra.

GAD provided expertise in a case regarding potential costs to the taxpayer of survivors' benefits.

This case study looks at how setting up a regional group has helped forces to meet their responsibilities arising from section 33 of PoFA and the SC Code.

Contract with Chernobyl New Safe Confinement was won with support from UK Export Finance (UKEF), Welsh Government and Lloyds Banking Group.

PHE and local partners encouraged the rough sleeping and homeless community to attend a TB screening session by offering a wider range of services at the event.

Essex Girl Beauty sells innovative products to beauty salons and retail customers around the world.

Saira provides an insight into her training contract and post-qualification experience within the Government Legal Department

Charles provides an insight into his training contract within HM Revenue & Customs

Learn how the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) used natural language processing to identify patterns across prison reports.

GAD provides actuarial expertise to economic regulators such as those covering air traffic control services.

GAD advised government on a risk protection alternative to commercial insurance for academy trusts.

GAD is helping the World Bank and developing countries plan better for financial losses relating to natural disasters.

GAD used a streamlined approach to complete actuarial valuations of 20 public service pension schemes for the 2016 valuation cycle.

GAD was commissioned to provide analysis of pensions for same sex and opposite sex couples in public and private sector schemes.

GAD carried out analysis which helped increase the transparency and oversight of over 90 pension funds.

GAD assisted the government with modelling the impact of a cap on exit payments for public sector employees.

GAD estimated and issued advice on the costs of airline insolvencies to support a government review.

The International Charter: Space and Major Disasters (“the Charter”) is a global agreement which aims to provide a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters.

How Manchester city council identified gaps and offered training to prepare social workers for the NAAS assessment.

Learn how the Swedish Land Registry used natural language processing to handle land registry requests more efficiently.

Learn how the Government Digital Service used classification and natural language processing to make GOV.UK more accessible.

Learn how a research institution used clustering to optimise heating and energy consumption.

Learn how a market research start-up used classification and clustering to gain insights to their free-text survey responses.

Learn how the Department for International Development (DFID) used computer vision to estimate populations.

Learn how the Department for Transport (DfT) used clustering to ensure MOT standards remained high.

Learn how a signalling company used regression to reduce train delays.

Lessons from the CMA's investigation into office design companies who broke competition law by cover bidding.

Find out how Cafcass migrated its email services to the cloud and the challenges they had to overcome.

Learn about how Network Rail moved to the hybrid cloud, the challenges it faced and the technologies it used.

A city-wide, multi-agency strategy in Stoke on Trent to tackle the high incidence of speech and language delay identified in children in the early years.

A whole-system reform of Children’s Services in Hertfordshire improved the quality of work with families as well as outcomes for children and their parents.

Find out how Welsh public sector organisations migrated its email away from the PSN to the internet.

Find out how GDS uses a VPN to allow users to get access to services on the Public Services Network (PSN).

Find out how DFID migrated its email away from the Public Services Network to the internet.

PLATO is an ESA medium class science mission to detect rocky Earth-like planets orbiting bright nearby Sun-like stars in the ‘habitable zone’, where liquid water could exist on the planet surface.

Working together, land remediation specialists are embracing a consistent approach for cleaning up the UK's earliest nuclear sites.

A cross-industry initiative aims to develop technical solutions for future supplies of the cements typically used to stabilise many kinds of radioactive wastes.

Emerging technologies such as graphene are being investigated for their potential to improve decommissioning of nuclear sites.

Trials are under way to examine whether vitrification technologies could be adapted for larger quantities of mixed low/intermediate level radioactive wastes.

Academic research is vital for addressing uniquely complex challenges.

New approach offers potential to convert plutonium into safe, stable forms.

Witton Park Academy have reduced the number of information systems they use to maximise efficiency and encourage collaboration.

Photographer and film maker, Rick Bronks heads up Satureyes Media and shares how he protects his copyright.

The aim of this initiative is to explore the capabilities of 5G connectivity, through a primary focus in specific vertical industry sectors. These projects will develop challenge based use cases, demonstrating the opportunit…

We interviewed the husband and wife team behind Edinburgh’s first zero waste shop. A community interest company putting planet and purpose before profits.