Guidance

Behaviour change: guides for national and local government and partners

These guides are for national and local government and partners, such as the NHS, emergency services and third sector, to support people to have healthier behaviours.

Documents

Achieving behaviour change: a guide for national government

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Achieving behaviour change: a guide for local government and partners

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Based on the Behaviour Change Wheel framework, these guides can be used to help:

  • develop behaviour change interventions from scratch
  • build on or modify existing interventions
  • choose from existing or planned interventions

These guides provide a framework for understanding behaviour in its context and developing interventions and policies to change behaviour.

They can be used flexibly according to need and circumstance, rather than necessarily following a fixed sequence of steps. They introduce tools and provide case examples for each of these processes which can be used all together or as required during the development process.

Published 13 February 2020
Last updated 6 November 2020 + show all updates
  1. Added document: 'Achieving behaviour change: a guide for national government'.

  2. First published.