Case Studies

We have gathered case studies from across government to demonstrate the factors that are likely to produce high quality analysis.

We call these factors "pillars of influential analysis".

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Case study: Analysis in Government (AiG) Rising Star Award 2025

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Team name and Department Rebecca Vincent, Senior Analytical Officer, Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) Project title Understanding barriers for working parents: where are childcare deserts and oases? Situation and Action: With the government’s £14 billion childcare reform rolling out by September 2025, there was a pressing need to understand local […]

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Case study: Innovative Horizon Scanning Identifies the Science and Technology of the Future, Dstl

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Team name and Department Discovery Analytics Team, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Situation and Action Horizon scanning for emerging science and technology (S&T) is a critical but complex challenge for defence. With hundreds of thousands of academic papers and scientific articles published monthly, manually identifying disruptive or novel developments was inefficient and unsustainable. Analysts […]

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Case study: Launching ‘Explore Local Statistics Service’, ONS

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Team name and Department Explore Subnational Statistics Team, Office for National Statistics (ONS). Situation and Action Local-level statistics are essential for policy making, but they are often fragmented, inconsistently formatted, and difficult to access – especially for non-technical users. Local authorities and the public struggled to find and interpret data relevant to their areas. The […]

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Case study: Performance analysis of UK businesses in high growth technology sectors, HMRC and DSIT

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Team / Department Cross-government Business Analysis, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Technologies, Growth & Securities Analysis, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Situation / Action The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) Technologies, Growth and Security team is responsible for supporting high growth technology sectors in the UK. However, these are not measured […]

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Case study: Health inequalities in health protection report, UKHSA

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Team / Department UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) Public Health Analysis Analysis and Intelligence Assessment UKHSA Health Equity and Inclusion Health UKHSA Economics UKHSA Strategy and Policy Situation / Action “Health inequalities in health protection have a high human cost across people and place. They have a wider societal impact, including on health services […]

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