Catherine Hutchinson, Head of the Evaluation Task Force (ETF), talks about what the ETF has been doing to make sure that robust evidence is the driving force behind government spending decisions on policies and programmes.
In this blog one of our Head Statistics Regulators discusses what it means to be an accredited official statistic and how official statistics accreditation can help users and producers of statistics…
In this blog, our Head of Data and Methods discusses the benefits and risks of AI in official statistics, and outlines OSR’s strategy for AI in the year to come.
Our Head of Private Office discusses comparability of data across the UK, which was topical at a recent Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.
In this blog, Johnny Runge and Beti Baraki from the Policy Institute at King’s College London discuss how individuals may use statistics in their personal lives, and they ask you to get in touch with suggestions.
Director General for Regulation, Ed Humpherson, discusses the divergence between internal positivity and external scepticism about analysis in Government, and how transparency is key to benefitting the public good.
Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation discusses the 5 Safes model as a key feature to support data sharing and linkage.
In this guest blog Helen Barugh, Head of Statistics Policy and User Engagement, discusses transforming the statistics produced by the UK Health Security Agency.
Mark Pont, OSR’s Assessment Programme Lead and Philip Wales, NISRA’s Chief Executive discuss engaging with statistics users and how user input can help decision making.
In our latest guest blog Gary Childs, Head of Analytical Delivery at NHS England, discusses steps NHS England has been taking in recent years to improve the quality of mental health data… Context Within NHS England we have been striving to improve the quality of mental health data for a number of years. In this […]