DeepMind's 'Habermas Machine' AI mediator drafted group-consensus statements for UK citizen deliberation groups; in a peer-reviewed study of 5,734 participants, its statements …
London, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 56%47/100
The UK's ICO audited 28 widely-used school-technology providers in 2024-2025, covering safeguarding, behaviour-management and classroom apps. Its June 2026 'Edtech examined' report …
Wilmslow, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 56%47/100
Scotland's first national AI-in-schools guidance (Mar 2026) requires a data-protection impact assessment before any pupil-data AI tool is introduced and bars unverified …
England's LEGI gave GBP 418m to 30 deprived areas (2006–2011) for business support. A regression-discontinuity study found jobs rose inside treated areas …
The UK government's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation audited algorithms across recruitment, financial services, policing and local government, found recruitment tools …
London, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 78%41/100
Running since 1988, the IMO's Women in Maritime programme funds regional shipping associations and gender-mainstreaming policy, yet the 2024 IMO-WISTA survey found …
Four-landowner partnership restoring ~600 km² of the Cairngorms on a 200-year vision; partner-reported progress since 2019 includes 8,219 ha of conifer removal, …
Minute, part of the UK's 'Humphrey' toolkit, turns meetings into editable notes. Announced 23 May 2025 with a 25-council trial, early central-government …
Leeds-based Smoothwall pairs AI text analysis with human moderators to flag self-harm, bullying, grooming and violence risk in real time across roughly …
Leeds, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 70%40/100
Cambridge psychologists and AI researchers tested Claude and ChatGPT grading 750 real essays from three UK universities. The systems matched human examiners' …
WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue funded Swansea University, Project Seagrass and Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum to plant the UK's first major seagrass restoration …
The Home Office's visa streaming tool graded applications red/amber/green, with nationality as a factor and refusals feeding back into ratings. After JCWI …
Defra-funded catchment measures (woody debris dams, bunds, tree planting, wetlands) above Pickering, a town flooded four times in 1999–2007. Modelling estimates annual …
Liverpool City Council signed a five-year, £2.7m contract with Jadu to build a low-code 'Digital Layer' combining case management, Microsoft Power Platform …
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 81%33/100
East Sussex County Council replaced manual Google Maps route-planning with QRoutes' AI-assisted optimisation for SEND transport, cutting one pilot school's routes from …