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Spotlight on Analysis Function Learning Offer
The Government Analysis Function (AF) has around 17,000 members working across the Civil Service. Established in 2018, the AF brings together analysts of all disciplines by facilitating cross-government and cross-profession collaboration on the highest priority analytical issues.
As a function we want to support you in all aspects of your career and development. Our vision is to have the right people in the right place at the right time, with the right skills to deliver better analysis for better delivery.
To do this, we want to provide you with learning and development opportunities to help you meet your potential, ensuring the delivery of a robust, relevant and future-proof analytical learning offer.
Spotlight on the Analysis Function Learning Offer
Why members of the Analysis Function should use the Learning Curriculum
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6 May 2021
The Government Analysis Function (AF) has around 17,000 members working across the Civil Service. Established in 2018, the AF brings together analysts of all disciplines by facilitating cross-government and cross-profession collaboration on the highest priority analytical issues.
As a function we want to support you in all aspects of your career and development. Our vision is to have the right people in the right place at the right time, with the right skills to deliver better analysis for better delivery.
To do this, we want to provide you with learning and development opportunities to help you meet your potential, ensuring the delivery of a robust, relevant and future-proof analytical learning offer.
Ed Humpherson holds the UK government to account for the data that it publishes. He argues that chartered accountants have a key role to play in helping organisations and the public navigate the new information landscape.
Last November, chartered accountant Ed Humpherson wrote to the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, raising concerns that in briefings about the COVID-19 pandemic, the government’s “use of data has not always been supported by transparent information being provided in a timely manner”.
“As a result, there is potential to confuse the public and undermine confidence in the statistics,” he went on to explain, while recognising the pressures that the government was facing during the pandemic.
By the Analysis Function Capability Team, Office for National Statistics
The Analysis Function (AF) is a cross-government community of around 17,000 people involved in the generation and dissemination of research, analysis and evidence. Our mission as a function is to support the government to make better decisions in every aspect of policy, delivery and operations, to deliver value for money and to improve the lives of the UK population.
As a Function we aim to improve analytical capability across government by providing opportunities for analysts to collaborate, develop, and share knowledge across profession and departmental boundaries. If you work in analysis in government or public services, you are a member of the AF.
Government plans to go further than Lord Faulks’ review recommendations face fierce scrutiny from lawyers, with the impact on social care and court jurisdiction under the spotlight
Widespread relief that the panel tasked with conducting an independent review of administrative law did not recommend wholesale reform of judicial review proved short-lived when the lord chancellor revealed that the report was just a ‘starting point’. It quickly became apparent that the government wants to go much further than Lord Faulks’ recommendations.
Lawyers and others have been given only six weeks to respond to the government’s wide-ranging consultation (more on that later). Nevertheless, judging by the reaction to two of Faulks’ recommendations that the government is keen to pursue immediately, Robert Buckland can expect robust responses before the consultation closes on Thursday.