The Scottish Government

Powerful analysisImproving outcomes

Roger Halliday

July 2013

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The Christie Commission said current approaches aren’t sustainable

Government spend likely real terms fall for 15 years

Coupled with rise in demand of more than £27 billion over next 15 years

Source: Radical Scotland – Confronting the challenges facing Scotland’s public services, NESTA (October 2010).

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We have demonstrated

Impact of Statisticians in decisions

Welfare reform Devolved taxes

Renewable energy

Literacy surveyVirtual schools

Improvement science

1. Initiation 2. Option

appraisal

3. Development

4. Implementation

5. Monitoring

6. Evaluation

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We are (recognised as)…a well trusted and motivated professional group that works proactively, flexibly and in collaboration with our partners to… -efficiently produce high quality and pertinent data, evidence and analysis to influence, underpin and challenge policy development and delivery - provide new insights to generate innovative and actionable solutions through knowledgeable and user focused interpretation, and -tell a compelling evidence based story that supports progress towards the SG Purpose and creates better outcomes for the people of Scotland.

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We want to

Have greater impact in decisions

Assemble high value evidence

Data innovation

ScottishNeighbourhoodStatistics

Do insightful analysis

Free time for analysis

Communicate analysis well

Peer review Web technologyIncrease context

Develop people Keep trust Partnerships Constitution

Key supporting work

Greater impact of data and evidence

in decisions

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Data Sharing & Linkage Service

FOUNDATION STONE: GUIDING PRINCIPLES

UK Advisory Council

Steering Group

Privacy Advisory and Ethics Committee

Information Gateway

We aim to

Improve data sharing and linkage

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We strive to have

user led improvement

ScotStat

User engagement

Theme/topic based

1800 users

Inform & consult

Peer ReviewQuality everyone’s

job

Experts & learners

12 live projects

Comms & methods

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Any questions?