write and implement strategic plans to develop new analyses with RAP principles, and to redevelop existing products with RAP principles Citizens benefit from efficient, high-quality analysis delivered directly to them or used to improve services for them. Many analysts tasked with delivering RAP are unaware of the skills they will need to implement it fully. Therefore, they can find it difficult to choose the right training. They do not know about existing communities of practice or how to engage with them. The potential for the proposal to have wider systemic effects across society, the economy and the environment should be considered whether or not they are intentional. Such collateral effects if significant must be taken into account at the l

RAP not only delivers the capability needed for these better products but is also a core part of these new products. Explore education statistics, an open-source platform developed by the Department for Education, helps users interact with and better understand education statistics. The platform was designed to enable RAP from the ground up. Automated pipelines produced by statisticians supply data to the platform in the correct standardised format. The prospect of using the platform has, in turn, encouraged the statistics producers to adopt RAP and develop the capability they need to implement it. Strategic portfolio comprising the required programmes on the critical path for delivery of required benefits. Programme A: Service Improvement Programme B: Human Resources Programme C: Estates Management Proposals should initially be considered from the perspective of the service needed to deliver the required policy outcome and not from the perspective of a preconceived solution or asset creation. This guards against thinking too narrowly or being trapped by preconceptions into missing optimum solutions.The Office for National Statistics’ Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey shows how RAP can be a powerful tool to improve the efficiency and quality of analysis. Mentors helped the team make their nationally important analysis more efficient despite the tight deadlines and high pressure they faced throughout the coronavirus pandemic. From stories like this, we know that giving analysts the capability needed for RAP improves efficiency and the quality of their products. To deliver medium term objectives for change, typically involving improved quality and efficiency of service. Programme A: Service Improvement Q3.3 The quality of the statistics and data, including their accuracy and reliability, coherence and comparability, and timeliness and punctuality, should be monitored and reported regularly. Statistics should be validated through comparison with other relevant statistics and data sources. The extent and nature of any uncertainty in the estimates should be clearly explained. Analytical leaders will promote a “RAP by default” approach so that we encourage more analysts to gain the capability to implement RAP. Having more analysts in the public sector with these skills will make it easier for organisations to recruit analysts who are familiar with this way of working. It will make it easier for other analysts to gain those skills through mentoring and peer review.

higher quality analysis and reduced risk, with quality assurance built into all parts of the process There are different types of programmes, and the content of the supporting business case will be influenced by the nature of the change being delivered and the degree of analysis required. The Green Book is guidance issued by HM Treasury on how to appraise policies, programmes and projects. It also provides guidance on the design and use of monitoring and evaluation before, during and after implementation. Appraisal of alternative policy options is an inseparable part of detailed policy development and design. This guidance concerns the provision of objective advice by public servants to decision makers, which in central government means advice to ministers. In arms-length public organisations the decision makers may be appointed board members, and where local authorities are using the method, [footnote 1] elected council members. The guidance is for all public servants concerned with proposals for the use of public resources, not just for analysts. The key specialisms involved in public policy creation and delivery, from policy at a strategic level to analysis, commercial strategy, procurement, finance, and implementation must work together from the outset to deliver best public value. The Treasury’s five case model is the means of developing proposals in a holistic way that optimises the social / public value produced by the use of public resources. Similarly, there is a requirement for all organisations across government to work together, to ensure delivery of joined up public services.Improved efficiency and quality are Civil Service priorities. Government Functions support the delivery of these priorities. They enforce common standards, produce resources that benefit the whole of government, and ensure that projects and programmes are implemented effectively. choose leaders responsible for promoting RAP and monitoring progress towards this strategy within organisations