Public service design and delivery

Innovative cross-cutting ideas underpin public service reform including productivity, devolution, service design and commissioning for better outcomes. . Reform researches these alongside its work on the individual part of the public sector.

The world is changing, and so can public services.

Publications

8th September 2021

A State of preparedness: how government can build resilience to civil emergencies

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious civil emergency this country has faced in peacetime; unprecedented in its scale, complexity, and duration. Despite the fact that extensive central government machinery exists to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to civil emergencies, the pandemic has exposed critical shortcomings in preparedness and resilience.

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17th May 2021

Algorithmic transparency in the public sector

This event-write up brings together the ideas generated at Reform and Imperial College London’s The Forum, policy hackathon ‘Algorithmic transparency in the public sector’.

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29th April 2021

Radical transparency: the future of public procurement

This Reform perspectives argues that government should embrace new technologies to enable procurement data to flow more freely around government, in order to inform smarter spending decisions.

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Events

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State of the State 2021

Thursday 4th November 2021

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Blogs

17 September 2021
By William Mills

The Week, 17 September 2021

With all eyes on the reshuffle, the week's policy news may have gone under your radar. Here's what you need to know.

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20 May 2021
By William Mills

Meg Hillier MP, Katie Perrior and Robert Nisbet join Reform’s Advisory Board.

Reform is today announcing three new members of its cross-party Advisory Board, chaired by Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan of Cotes, and including former Ministers Rt Hon Caroline Flint and G

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18 March 2021
By Deborah Cadman

Why We Need ‘Smart Devolution’

In Reform’s Resilient State essay collection, I reflected on my experiences as a local government leader

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Press

Newsnight, Tuesday 22 September 2021

Reform Director, Charlotte Pickles, spoke to Newsnight Political Editor, Nicholas Watt, about the cost of living crisis and whether more State is a sensible path forward for the Government.

Watch it back here.