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- 7th Jul 2017
A first for children's social care: findings from our new trial
For children growing up in turbulent households the outcomes are stark. Young people in receipt of social care attain drastically lower than average GCSE grades, have an increased chance of suffering poor physical and mental health and, worryingly, are more likely to have offspring who endure a similarly detrimental childhood.…
- Blog
- 11th Jul 2017
Be the Business: boosting productivity in the UK
This morning saw the launch of ‘Be the Business’, the new movement from the UK’s Productivity Leadership Group (PLG). The breakfast event was glitzy and polished, hosted in the cool London base of Channel 4, rather than a standard conference venue. An interesting element is that it is led by…
- Report
- 19th Oct 2017
The Behavioural Insights Team Update Report 2016-17
This report sets out the latest findings from the Behavioural Insights Team and its global partners between September 2016 and August 2017.
- Blog
- 27th Nov 2017
The UK's new Industrial Strategy: a modern foundation for economic growth
Traditionally, Industrial Strategy conjures images of furnaces and molten metal. In turn, the language of economic policy - productivity, innovation, competitive advantage, regulation - hardly sparks the imagination. Today’s launch of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper should help shift these perceptions. The Strategy is formed around five foundations…
- Blog
- 27th Mar 2018
Encouraging milk banking – please get in touch
Two weeks ago, Michael Sanders (BIT’s Chief Scientist) and his wife had a baby boy, Teddy. In this post, he talks about what happened next. They tell you that everything changes, and they’re wrong. I liked numbers before, and I like them now. Here are some: 750ml – how much…
- Blog
- 10th Apr 2018
Supporting innovation in public services: Empathy Training in Bangladesh
In partnership with the Access to Information programme (a2i) from the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) have been working to develop behavioural insights capacity within the Government of Bangladesh. In the first of several posts about our work together, we highlight one of the ways…
- Blog
- 21st May 2018
BX2018: Diverse approaches to improving gender diversity
This is the first in a series of blog posts in the lead up to the Behavioural Exchange 2018 conference in Sydney. It continues the ongoing conversation that we, as a global organisation, have been having about diversity, and the role Behavioural Insights can play in improving gender equality. To…
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- Blog
- 29th Oct 2018
Helping our public service leaders - the new Centre for Public Services Leadership
In 1997, leaders from Cardiff’s local authority, police, city licensing regulators, an emergency department and a local university met to discuss a problem. Violent crime was increasing in the city at a disturbing rate. Something had to be done. Seven years later, violence-related hospital admissions were down by 35% and…
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Predictiv
What is Predictiv? Predictiv is the world's first and most used behavioural online experiments platform enabling policy-makers to access timely empirical evidence to inform their decision-making. It can probe understanding, sentiments, and estimate real world behaviours. It enables us to collect data from an online population of participants across a…