A new NPC evidence review highlights the value of the voluntary and community sector to the health and care system. But the evidence alone won’t be enough to ensure that these important services continue to reach everyone...

  The ONS is piloting the use of new data sources such as social media in the census, writes Jason Leavey. But don’t expect changes to be implemented anytime soon. The Office for National Statistics could incorporate...

  Martin Smith (Specialist, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee) invites you to check the evidence behind three new policy areas announced today. In true scientific fashion, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has...

Dr Kathryn Oliver (University of Oxford) argues that we need a clearer understanding of who is already influencing policy, and how, if we want to increase the role of academic evidence in policymaking. It’s easy – and...

Howard White (Campbell Collaboration) examines whether DRIVE, an Intimate Partner Violence programme being piloted in the UK, will be conducted in a way that will generate useful and much-needed evidence. BBC News recently carried a story on a...

On 8 March 2016 the Alliance for Useful Evidence hosted a discussion on the politics of evidence-based policy making, to coincide with the launch of Professor Paul Cairney’s book. Here Paul argues that when presenting evidence...

Dr Stefanie Ettelt and Professor Nicholas Mays (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) share their simple tips for ensuring that policy pilots generate useful evidence. Piloting of public policy is almost universally seen as a...

Genevieve Maitland Hudson (Osca) explains how, despite significant spending on research, Kids Company lacked evidence of its own impact.  Not all research is equally important to social programmes. This isn’t only a matter of the standard of...

  To paraphrase the famous Strawbs song all those years ago (apologies to younger readers!), fewer people seem to be ‘getting it’ when we talk about developments in other UK jurisdictions. While the debate on our...

Jonathan Breckon shares 6 simple ways to make your professional training course more effective – based on the evidence.  The UK training industry is big business. The private market is worth around £3 billion and there’s 12,300 providers....

  This guest blog is from Chief Superintendent Alex Murray of West Midlands Police – the second largest force in England and Wales.  Alex is Commander of Solihull Local Policing Unit. He is also the founder of...

  Realising Ambition is a UK-wide £25m Big Lottery Fund programme replicating 25 services aimed at preventing children and young people from entering the criminal justice system. This programme, managed by Catch22 in partnership with the Dartington...