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Purpose of this document The Development Pathways Tool identifies the actions a policy practitioner can take to develop their skills at three different levels – developing, practising, and expert/leading. These actions are organised into three ways of...

The Development Pathways Tool identifies the actions a policy practitioner can take to develop their skills at three different levels - developing, practising, and expert/leading. These actions are organised into three ways of learning - on the job...

The Head of the Policy Profession hosted a roundtable for senior policy leaders with Professor Mark Moore from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The session was designed to learn about the concept of ‘public value’ and how policy...

This document contains guidance on different types of communication with Ministers and Cabinet. Whether you're writing a Cabinet paper, a policy paper, an aide memoire, or an A3, you'll find high-level descriptions of what's involved, links to resources...

The Head of the Policy Profession wants chief executives and their departments to understand and meet their policy stewardship responsibilities. Policy leaders (Tier 2s and strategic advisors) came together to discuss what success in policy stewardship...

The Policy analyst forum was designed by analysts, for analysts. It provided an opportunity for 64 early career analysts from across the Public Service to share their ideas for improving policy capability, quality and performance. At the end...

This set of checklists can help policy advisers and law makers with the development and review of legislative reform. The checklists are an extract from Appendix 1 of David Goddard, Making Laws That Work: How Laws Fail, and How We Can Do Better (Hart...

In November 2022, Justice David Goddard made the presentation below on ‘Making Laws that Work’ to a Policy Forum for policy managers and principal advisors from across the Public Service. You can also see a copy of Justice Goddard’s Legislation...

What is the Policy Capability Framework?  The Policy Capability Framework (PCF) is a performance improvement tool. It aims to help agencies review and improve the overall policy capability of their organisations. It describes the key...

Checklist for reviewing papers in development This checklist can be used when reviewing a paper that you (or someone else) are developing. The Policy Quality Framework sets out four standards of quality policy analysis and advice. Detailed...

Start Right Guide Guidance on how to get policy projects off to a great start This document outlines how to apply the Start Right approach to initiating a policy project, so it is set up for quality and success. Start Right is designed to be applied...

This is the HTML version of the Guide to the Ministerial Policy Satisfaction Survey, also available as PDF. Guide to the Ministerial Policy Satisfaction Survey This guide contains information on how to use the Ministerial Policy Satisfaction...

Start Right: Green Light Framework The Green Light Framework below lets you record the things you learned during the Exploration phase. The Framework can be used to seek agreement and authorisation, and should be iterated over time as required. Getting...

Improving policy capability A case study of Inland Revenue’s experience of applying the Policy Capability Framework, and their commitment to using it as a health check every six months. Key points: In 2017, Inland Revenue (IR) embarked on a five-...