Wales Centre for Public Policy

作为一个拥有相对年轻的权力下放机构的小国，威尔士需要更大的政策能力。威尔士公共政策中心将帮助提供这方面的帮助。它将主办威尔士公共政策研究所（PPIW）和一个新的威尔士工作中心（WWW），这将协同工作，使社会科学证据可供威尔士部长和公共服务部门使用。该中心将收集证据，说明如何有效应对广泛的经济和社会挑战。会议将集中讨论经济和就业等问题；教育;保健和社会护理；社区、住房和环境，这与威尔士政府方案的实施高度相关，对威尔士当地社区未来的繁荣至关重要，并解决了ESRC当前的优先事项。该中心的工作将以需求为导向。它将采取一种发展的办法，直接回应部长和公共服务部门对证据的需要。它将与部长、特别顾问、官员、公共服务领导人和其他利益攸关方共同制定工作方案，并通过反复互动的过程传播成果。PPIW将设计并实施一项工作方案，为部长们提供现有的最佳证据和建议，以帮助实现其优先事项。它将：(1)支持第一部长和内阁办公室确定战略性交叉问题；(2)与部长、特别顾问和官员合作，确定他们的证据需求；(3)就如何满足这些需求提供建议；(4)发展和动员广泛的政策专家网络，制作和提交短期周转报告和简报。万维网将与公共服务和公共服务委员会合作，改善当地社区的成果。它将支持它们收集、动员和产生研究证据，这些证据将有助于为地方战略、政策和规划提供信息。WWW的研究将与政府相关，但独立于政府，它将为威尔士及其他地区的学术辩论和网络做出贡献。它将：(1)与公共服务、服务使用者和社区合作，确定在促进经济、社会和环境福祉方面哪些有效，哪些无效；(2)加强公共服务机构获取和使用证据的能力建设；(3)开展和动员社会科学研究，以应对当代社会挑战；(4)使威尔士能够为全英国的What Works网络做出贡献。直接借鉴其对威尔士政府和公共服务的政策工作，该中心将在三个交叉研究主题上提供新的见解：(1)什么在公共服务改革中起作用；(2)在政策制定和执行中起作用的因素；(3)什么在证据使用中起作用。这三个问题在包括公共政策、社会政策、公共行政和政治学在内的一系列核心学科的研究议程上都占有重要地位，因此，中心的工作将有助于塑造这些领域的未来研究。其关于公共服务改革的研究将分析预防方法；服务集成;创新;以及用户和公民的参与。它对政策制定和实施的研究将集中在中层政府是否可以，如果可以，如何通过使用其他“政策资源”来减轻公共支出减少的影响。它关于证据使用的研究将确定最有效的机制，使研究人员产生的证据能够为政策和实践提供信息。该中心的政策和研究工作将与英国其他地区和国际上的政策制定者、实践者和研究人员相关，我们将与专业和学术网络合作，促进比较分析和跨司法管辖区的学习。

As a small country with relatively young devolved institutions, Wales needs greater policy capacity. The Wales Centre for Public Policy will help to provide this. It will host the Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW) and a new What Works Centre for Wales (WWW) that will work in tandem to make social science evidence available and useful to Welsh Ministers and public services. The Centre will mobilise evidence about what works in addressing a wide range of economic and social challenges. It will focus on issues such as the economy and work; education; health and social care; and communities, housing and the environment, which are highly relevant to the delivery of the Welsh Programme for Government, vital to the future prosperity of local communities in Wales, and address the ESRC's current priorities. The Centre's work will be demand led. It will take a developmental approach that responds directly to the evidence needs of Ministers and public services. It will co-produce its work programmes and disseminate the results through iterative and interactive processes of engagement with Ministers, Special Advisers, officials, public service leaders and other stakeholders. The PPIW will design and conduct a programme of work that provides Ministers with the best available evidence and advice to help to achieve their priorities. It will: (1) Support the First Minister and Cabinet Office to identify strategic cross-cutting issues; (2) Work with Ministers, Special Advisers, and officials to identify their evidence needs; (3) Provide advice on how to meet these needs; and (4) Develop and mobilise an extensive network of policy experts to produce and present short-turnaround reports and briefings.WWW will work with public services and Public Service Boards to improve outcomes for local communities. It will support them to marshal, mobilise and generate research evidence that will help inform local strategies, policies and programmes. WWW's research will be relevant to, but independent of, government, and it will contribute to academic debates and networks - in Wales and beyond. It will: (1) Work with public services, service users and communities to determine what works, and what does not work, in promoting economic, social and environmental well-being; (2) Build up the capacity of public services to access and use evidence; (3) Generate and mobilise social science research to address contemporary societal challenges; and (4) Enable Wales to contribute to the UK wide What Works Network.Drawing directly on its policy work for the Welsh Government and public services, the Centre will contribute new insights on three cross-cutting research themes: (1) What works in public service reform; (2) What works in policy making and implementation; and (3) What works in evidence use. All three of these issues are high on research agendas in a range of core disciplines including public policy, social policy, public administration and political science, and the Centre's work will, therefore, help to shape future research in these fields. Its research on public service reform will analyse approaches to prevention; service integration; innovation; and user and citizen engagement. Its research on policy making and implementation will focus on whether, and if so how, meso-level governments can mitigate the impact of reductions in public spending through the use of other 'policy resources'. Its research on evidence use will identify mechanisms that work best in enabling evidence generated by researchers to inform policy and practice.The Centre's policy and research work will be relevant to policy makers, practitioners and researchers in other parts of the UK and internationally, and we will collaborate with professional and academic networks to facilitate comparative analysis and cross-jurisdictional learning.