Pippa Coutts (Alliance for Useful Evidence Research and Policy Manager) and Edward Orlik (What Works Team in the Cabinet Office) reflect on the What Works Network’s learning around what makes an evidence centre successful. The What...

Greg Wilkinson (Traversum) and Jonathan Breckon (Alliance for Useful Evidence) on the development of a new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. At the National Children and Adult Services conference in Bournemouth this morning, the...

Kerstin Hinds (Office for Statistics Regulation) on why the misuse of statistics must be challenged, to ensure that official figures can be used, and trusted, by us all. I am writing 10 days after our Chair,...

Professor Leighton Andrews (former Minister for Education and Skills, and Minister for Public Services, Welsh Government) on why it’s important that we combat the proliferation of ‘fake news’ and how it could be done. There has...

‘How Can Government Make the Best Use of Evidence?’ was the latest in a series run by the Alliance for Useful Evidence which has been working in Northern Ireland for two and a half years. Peter...

Back in 2015, the Canadian Prime Minister publicly released, for the first time, his instructions to all his ministers. Among these instructions, entitled mandate letters, one was particularly relevant to experimentation. It was addressed to the...

As the dust settles on the recent election, attention now turns to how parliamentarians will use their new mandate to implement their manifesto promises and the effectiveness of such policy-making in this new dispensation. In this...

What is evidence? How do we get hold of it, and once we’ve done so, what do we do with it? Good evidence is the backbone of good scrutiny. Without it, making effective recommendations is impossible....

In order to protect and improve employee health and wellbeing effectively, employers and practitioners need to have access to the best possible evidence-base. However, tracking down good evidence is not always easy: overwhelming amounts of information,...

The EIF is dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people – reducing short-term hardship and improving long-term outcomes. But although our mission is simple, the evidence base on what works to identify and intervene...

To what extent is an evidence-based approach to commissioning happening at the coal-face – is the theory reflected in practice? And what can commissioners – and service providers – do to ensure that evidence better informs...

So the temptation is just to plough on. Keep calm, ignore the Trump and Brexit tumults, and carry on proselytising for evidence. Perhaps eventually things will calm down. But they won’t. Whatever you think about the...