Perform Green recognise the importance of government organisations focussing on the immediate challenges posed by Coronavirus – we are also taking steps to ensure our staff, customers and the communities that we interact with remain as safe and healthy as they can be.
Nevertheless, we understand that the functions of government (at all levels) will need to continue, including planning for our collective futures. Perform Green are here to support this work, and are delighted to have been appointed to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) ‘Futures Framework’.
Further information regarding the BEIS Futures Framework can be found here
What is the Futures Framework?
The Futures Framework is a register of consultants and researchers that can be called upon by HM Government (HMG) Departments and Agencies and UK public bodies to support conducting work to think strategically about the long-term future and further developing these capabilities in government.
The demand for Futures work, and other ‘fields’ that can help people to think about the long-term future (e.g. whole systems analysis, present-day scanning, decision making support) in government is currently outstripping the capacity of the government’s expertise. The Futures Framework will assist policymakers to quickly and with minimal cost identify and procure Futures and related services and capability development opportunities. The Framework will be used by government departments and agencies to support a range of activities, including, but not limited to, the techniques in the Government’s published Futures Toolkit.
The key areas of expertise Perform Green can deliver under this framework are:
- Services for describing and explaining the characteristics of a policy area (including trend and driver analysis, and whole systems analysis)
- Services for describing what the future might be like
- Services for developing and testing policies and strategies, and related decisions, particularly for their robustness and resilience
- Services for developing Futures capability within the Civil Service (including skills related to the above activities)
- Services and expertise related to specific fields (including, but not limited to, specific scientific and technological, social and economic fields).
Perform Green’s Futures Framework Prospectus provides a summary of:
- our Futures expertise
- profiles of our people and
- case studies of relevant Futures projects.