Business and trade unions lie at the heart of the government’s recently unveiled Industrial Strategy, and are set to play an equally pivotal role in delivering its five missions.
But for these efforts to succeed, government must forge a new relationship with business and unions – one founded on genuine partnership towards shared national missions.
Mission Critical 02: Governing in partnership with business and trade unions, the second in FGF’s Mission Critical series of reports, sets out what this new relationship should look like in practice.
Written by Ram Puvinathan, Policy Associate at FGF, and Grace Wyld, Head of Policy and Programmes, Mission Critical 02 outlines five crucial steps government can take to embed business and union insight and expertise at every stage of policy design and delivery.
The report builds on the work of Mission Critical 01: Statecraft for the 21st century – a pioneering report written by Professor Mariana Mazzucato on putting mission-driven government into practice in the UK. Mission Critical 01 was the product of a collaboration between The Future Governance Forum and the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Upcoming papers in this series will explore the nature of a mission-driven government’s relationships with civil society organisations, with different layers of government, and with citizens directly.