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- 15th Apr 2014
Clinical Judgement and Decision-Making in Children’s Social Work: An analysis of the ‘front door’ system
In May 2013, the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) to undertake a project to look at social workers’ decision-making. Given the potential breadth of this project, and the limited resources available, BIT and the Department for Education (DfE) decided to…
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Dr Alex Gyani
Alex is the Managing Director of the Behavioural Insights Team's APAC offices. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. He has advised governments around the world on how to use behavioural science to improve policy outcomes and increase the use of evidence-based policy more generally. Previously Alex oversaw the…
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Elspeth Kirkman
Elspeth joined BIT while it was still part of the Cabinet Office. During her time with BIT she held various roles, including overseeing health and education work and setting up and leading the North American office. She is the author of two books relating to behavioural science: Behavioral Insights (2020,…
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Dr Michael Hallsworth
Dr Michael Hallsworth is BIT's Chief Behavioural Scientist. Before his current role, Michael was Managing Director of BIT Americas and previously led BIT's global work on health and tax. Earlier in his career, Michael was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Cabinet Office of the UK government and has in-depth…
- Blog
- 8th Jan 2013
Randomised controlled trials in public policy
Dr Ben Goldacre’s Radio 4 programme about the use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in public policy is well worth a listen.The programme includes guest appearances from members of the Behavioural Insights Team, with whom Ben wrote a paper on how policymakers can use RCTs to test new interventions.