Use of artificial intelligence in government
Published on:AI presents the government with opportunities to transform public services potentially delivering billions of pounds in productivity savings.
AI presents the government with opportunities to transform public services potentially delivering billions of pounds in productivity savings.
This good practice guide for policy and delivery professionals helps you work with uncertainty in government programmes
These good practice guides share practical tips on improving the quality and efficiency of day-to-day services provided by government.
This report examines the Department for Education’s evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
This report examines the government’s approach to investment in research and innovation to deliver net zero.
This toolkit is designed to guide those overseeing public service markets or assessing the effectiveness of these markets in terms of value for money and user outcomes. It helps government address a set of new challenges around its use of markets to deliver public services, including oversight, consumer protection, regulation and helping to achieve effective competition and innovative delivery.
This report examines the Department for Education’s evaluation of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
Our new study looks at whether the government is set up to deliver value for money from its approach to investment in pursuit of net zero.
This impacts case study shows how our work and identification of the cost of inadequate consumer protection was a catalyst for improvements to consumer law and delivery and accountability arrangements.
It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.
Optimism bias in public sector projects is not a new phenomenon. But it is one that persists, frequently undermining projects’ value for money as time and cost are under estimated and benefits over estimated. This report uses our back catalogue to illustrate the consequences of over optimism. In doing so, we have identified some contributory factors – such as project complexity and an organisation’s culture of challenge.
This page is part of our decommissioning toolkit. Commissioners need to understand what the drivers for change are and the motivations that lead to decommissioning. This will have an impact on the process of decommissioning and other factors such as timescales and levels of engagement with stakeholders. Our research found a wide set of drivers […]
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today on the progress that departments and their agencies have made to their construction delivery performance since his 2001 report “Modernising Construction”. He concluded that there had been a considerable improvement in completing projects to time and cost and that real savings were being delivered, […]