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.
On 5 May 2022, we’ll be making our first change to our Code of Practice for Statistics since its major overhaul in 2018. We’ll be changing two practices, which relate…
Jo Mulligan, Methods Expert gives an insight into the lessons learned from using the QCovid® risk calculator in commanding public confidence in models.
Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Equality Hub writes a guest blog about improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics.
14 April 2022
A look into the latest Government Statistical Service cross-government housing and planning statistics work programme, and how the Code of Practice for Statistics feeds into it.
1 April 2022
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
11 March 2022
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith writes on the importance of migration statistics when it comes to affecting real-world policy.
1 March 2022
Director General, Ed Humpherson explores his love of evaluation in our blog.
18 February 2022
Grace Pitkethly, Insight and Evaluation Manager at OSR explains how developing a more sophisticated use of evidence improves organisational insights.
11 February 2022
In our latest blog, OSR Regulator and former Police Information Analyst Ben Kendall Ward discusses how the Home Office’s National Data Quality Improvement Service (NDQIS) is improving the way police…
28 January 2022
Statistics Regulator Oliver Fox-Tatum explores what we mean by effective analytical leadership and how our TQV (Trustworthiness, Quality and Value) framework supports this. So… what do we mean by Analytical…
25 January 2022
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…
14 January 2022
‘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…