Twelve authors. One voice. One report.
You know exactly what the report should say. So does everyone who contributed to it.
That's the problem.
Statutory reports are built from contributions by scientists, policy specialists and technical experts — people who know their subject deeply and write about it very differently. Some write beautifully. Some write in a register that would stop a non-specialist in their tracks. And they may not know what the person in the next directorate has submitted.
So the same finding appears twice, described each time differently. Terminology drifts. A dataset gets referenced in chapter three without knowing chapter seven has already used it. None of this is anyone's fault. It's just what happens when a document has many authors.
That last part is the hard bit. You can find editors. Finding editors who can work fluently with complex scientific and policy material — who know when a simplification is helpful and when it's a distortion — is considerably harder.
That's the work we do.
Candy Wallace, our Editorial Lead, holds Crystal Mark accreditation — the Plain English Campaign's standard for government publications. She has worked on statutory reports, parliamentary submissions, and public-facing policy documents for over 20 years.
We've been making reports interesting for the Office for Environmental Protection, HS2, the Natural History Museum, the Office for National Statistics, and the Science Museum for 15 years.
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