Policy design community
The policy design community is a place where you can:
- meet, learn and work with other people who design policy or work in design, to develop your practice
- discover tools and methodologies that could support your work
- discuss specific challenges, for example in recruitment
- celebrate successes and learn from failures
- help shape what future policymaking might look like
- learn from and network with like-minded people
Who the community is for
You might be interested in this community if:
- your work involves designing policy in new and innovative ways
- you want to learn more about policy design
- you want to work together on policy issues with other members of the community
You do not have to be in a specific profession to join. However, you must be working in central or local government.
Getting involved
If you鈥檙e interested in discussing policy issues, you can:
- sign up for the to get the monthly newsletter - you鈥檒l need to use your UK government email address
- join the on the UK government Slack - again, you鈥檒l need to use your UK government email address
- to receive new posts by email
Events and meetups
The community runs events to support its members across government. You will be invited to these events when you join. These events include:
- monthly meetups
- working groups
- speaker series about policy design
You can or .
Community resources
You may find these resources useful:
- Open Policy-Making Toolkit, to help guide your work
- , for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
Support for people who don鈥檛 work directly for government
You don鈥檛 have to be working in government to use these resources. Anyone can:
- read the and to receive new posts by email
- attend our public speaker series events and watch past events at our and on our events booking page
- stay in touch with us through our
- use the Open Policy-Making Toolkit to help guide their work
- use for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
- Last update:
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Guidance first published