GOVERNMENT AND EVIDENCE – An interesting session run by the Alliance For Useful Evidence at UU Belfast last week which heard from NISRA’s Siobhan Carey and two former permanent secretaries Aideen McGinley and Will Haire about how (and to what extend) NI’s government departments make best use of evidence in their policymaking.
SOAPBOX Peter O’Neill argues that government must make the best use of evidence to be effective in policy-making. He’s organising a seminar in Belfast next week to look at the local perspective and how government can make the best use of evidence.
LISTEN BACK to keynote speeches from this afternoon’s conference on Innovation For Public Good conference at NICVA, with NESTA’s Geoff Mulgan.
Do the departments in the Northern Ireland Executive – or indeed the eleven local councils – construct policies that are backed by a proper evidence base? Think tanks are scarce in Northern Ireland. Why isn’t there a What Works Centre for NI?
