Learning lessons before launching an inquiry

Institute for Government

The government says that it wants to learn from what went wrong with the Covid-19 response and that a public inquiry will be held. What lessons can be learnt, what are the psychological underpinnings of accountability in policy and can we balance the tension between learning lessons and apportioning blame in order to inform better decision making in the future? Panellists: Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Dame Julie Mellor, former Chair of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Kathryn Scott, Director of Policy at the British Psychological Society Chaired by Emma Norris, Director of Research at the Institute for Government. This event was kindly supported by the British Psychological Society.