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Existing/established policy is constantly reviewed to ensure it is really dealing with problems it was designed to solve, taking account of associated effects elsewhere.

National Audit Office

Modern policy-making: ensuring policies deliver value for money. TSO, 2001. (HC 289, 2001-02). ISBN 0102912696 . This report examines how departments can better integrate considerations of risk and value for money into the design, implementation and maintenance of policies.

Role of external review in improving performance - This reports on an external review of public sector performance that aims to improve performance across all public services.

The Peoples Panel is made up of 5,000 members of the public. It has a profile that is representative of the UK population in terms of age, gender, region and a wide range of other demographic indicators. It is an ideal mechanism for establishing the views of the public and other stakeholder groups on public service delivery issues and giving useful feedback to policy makers on the workability of policies.

Policy Library includes a wide range of papers from the academic sector and think tanks and includes reviews and syntheses of literature for some policy areas. It attempts to put policy in context, through subjective literature reviews.

National School of Government offers a wide range of courses on various aspects of policy making