The Mercat Group, and its associates, can provide critical insights into intractable problems of public policy and service delivery based on their extensive experience.

The Mercat Group believes in recording and using lived experience to enrich and improve current and evolving public policy, governance and practice.

The Mercat Group believes in challenging accepted norms, established practice, and groupthink as a means of improving public policy and practice.

The Mercat Group's approach is defined by its adherence to principles of democracy, subsidiarity and devolution, accountability and equality.