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Policy design community

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The policy design community is a place where you can:

• discover tools and methodologies that could support your work
• discuss specific challenges, for example in recruitment
• celebrate successes and learn from failures
• help shape what future policymaking might look like
• learn from and network with like-minded people

Who the community is for

You might be interested in this community if:

• your work involves designing policy in new and innovative ways
• you want to learn more about policy design
• you want to work together on policy issues with other members of the community

You do not have to be in a specific profession to join. However, you must be working in central or local government.

Getting involved

If you’re interested in discussing policy issues, you can:

• join the policy design mailing list using your government email address
• join the policy design channel on the UK government Slack - you can create a Slack account using your government email address
• write posts for the public policy design blog

Community resources

You may find these resources useful:

• the public policy design blog
• the Open Policy-Making Toolkit to help guide your work
• the Delivery Book for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
• the Policy Lab blog
• the Open Innovation blog

Some blog posts worth reading:

• Are you making a bid for design?
• Commissioning public policy and services differently
• What does it mean to transform policymaking?
• Introducing a ‘Government as a System’ toolkit
• Lab Long Read: Human-centred policy? Blending ‘big data’ and ‘thick data’ in national policy

Published 21 October 2021