Evaluation and Analysis Award Shortlist

An Innovative Civil Service

Early Years Data and Analysis Team - Understanding barriers for working parents: where are childcare deserts and oases?

Ofsted

Ofsted’s Childcare Deserts and Oases project has transformed disparate cross-government and commercial data into novel real-world insights on the everyday experiences of parents seeking nurseries/childminders. It provides a hyperlocal view of childcare access across 180,000 neighbourhoods in England, using a two-step-floating-catchment model to account for local transport connections and the population of local children. This analysis has been instrumental in the early evaluation of a £14-billion investment in expanded childcare entitlements and their potential influence on local labour market participation. Ongoing data feeds from this modelling are informing policy discussion and evaluation at the highest levels across No.10 and DfE.

Global Dependencies Tool

Department for Health and Social Care

In response to an ongoing risk of disruption to the UK’s medical supply chains, and going beyond his objectives, Charlie set out to design a “Global Dependencies Tool”. For the first time, this innovative digital model provides DHSC/Govt with an overview of the UK’s health supply chain ‘dependence’ on every country across the Globe. The interactive tool shows manufacturing locations, route of import, and country touchpoints for over 440,000 medical products, along with a measure of the criticality of that dependence. It also provides regional data which enables thorough risk assessment and mitigation in the event of an international crisis.

Serious and Organised Crime Coordination Centre

HM Prison and Probation Service

The Serious and Organised Crime Coordination Centre (SOC CC) is a new function within the HMPPS’ Corruption, Crime and Policing Unit. The team is responsible for collecting risk data from the Police and the NCA to map out the SOC threat across HMPPS both in custody and the community. Additional teams within SOC CC exploit this data to identify highly capable SOC nominals that may be acting unnoticed, exploiting the system, and continuing their criminality. Working together the SOC CC has transformed the knowledge and understanding of the scale and spread of SOC throughout HMPPS leading to the enhanced management of SOC nominals.