This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
In our latest blog, Statistics Regulator Oliver Fox-Tatum explores what we mean by effective analytical leadership and how our TQV (Trustworthiness, Quality and Value) framework supports this. The topic of…
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust health and social care statistics into the headlines. Never has there been more scrutiny or spotlight on health statistics – they are widely quoted, in…
‘The public good’ is a phrase which you might not have come across before. When I first joined the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) nearly two years ago, I had…
17 November 2021
It may be too early to talk about Christmas for some – not for me. I have decided on the design theme, got my advent calendar, am close to finalising the Christmas menu and have started ordering gifts. I am all over it! And…
12 November 2021
I felt immensely excited and proud to be one of the 1,000 volunteers helping at COP26 in my home city of Glasgow. Volunteers came from different corners of the globe,…
5 November 2021
We recently hosted a lively public event where we engaged with a varied audience answering questions about our work during the pandemic. We are delighted that the public is taking…
2 November 2021
There has been a lot of talk about a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) technical report. It includes information on COVID-19 case rates in England for vaccinated and unvaccinated groups…
25 October 2021
My favourite number is 6. It was the number Roberto Carlos, my footballing idol, wore when he played for Brazil. As a kid I remember trying to recreate his infamous…
20 October 2021
Over the past 18 months we’ve talked a lot about transparency. We’ve made public interventions such as our call for UK governments to provide more transparency around COVID data, and…
8 October 2021
The Office for Statistics Regulation’s ‘Lessons Learned’ report argues that we should not be complacent: we need to press harder for more trustworthy, better quality, and higher value statistics.
22 September 2021
We are pleased to announce that a 12-week consultation will begin on 28 September 2021.
14 September 2021
In 2019, we started a systemic review of loneliness statistics to investigate the state of official statistics on loneliness in the UK.
9 September 2021
We can retain trust by actively looking for our mistakes, being open when we find them and by learning from them.