Strength in Numbers: A Strategic Vision for the GSS
Policy details
| Metadata item | Details |
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| Publication date: | 30 September 2024 |
| Owner: | GSS Policy and Coordination team |
| Who this is for: | Members of the GSS |
| Type: | Strategy |
| Contact: | GSS@statistics.gov.uk |
Summary
The Government Statistical Service (GSS) is the community for all UK civil servants that collect, analyse, produce and communicate statistics. We are responsible for ensuring that statistics effectively inform decision-makers and the public. We innovate by investigating new data sources, methodologies and processes to improve the quality of analysis and statistics. We come from over 40 different bodies, each with different policy and operational focuses and hence different statistical priorities, but act collaboratively across organisational boundaries in order to maximise impact, hence our vision statement; ‘Strength in Numbers’.
The vision has four themes, under each initiatives are set out that we need to maintain alongside more ambitious proposals we aim to deliver in the medium/longer term to strengthen the GSS.
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1. Coordination, Cooperation and Leadership
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That GSS decision making is system-wide by default, focused on delivering in partnership across departmental boundaries. GSS governance is transparent and inclusive, with roles and responsibilities clearly set out between departments, the GSS and Analysis Function. |
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We will maintain
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Our ambition is to implement
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| 2. Capability and Community
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That the members of the GSS can come from any background and work in supportive teams across the UK to reach their full potential, with clear progression routes and guidance from junior to the most senior grades. We need to ensure the GSS comprises a diverse, inclusive and vibrant community which people want to join and to stay and to build their career in. |
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We will maintain
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Our ambition is to implement
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| 3. Setting Standards
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That the principles of the Code of Practice for Statistics underpin all GSS activities and outputs, and is supported by harmonised, coherent standards and shared practices that promote high-quality, trustworthy statistical production across the UK. |
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We will maintain
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Our ambition is to implement
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| 4. Transformation and Innovation
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That the high quality and innovative statistics the GSS deliver are created through an interconnected data estate and contribute to a unified evidence base, planning today to inform public and decision makers of what they need to know tomorrow. |
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We will maintain
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Our ambition is to implement
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