What makes a good innovation fund?
In this blog the What Works Team and Policy Lab consider what good design for innovation funds looks like. Read on to learn how these funds can be used to transform our knowledge of what works.
Edward Orlik
What Works in Westminster Palace – Evidence Week 2018
Next week the Houses of Parliament are playing host to the inaugural Evidence Week. It's a chance for citizens, MPs and policymakers to talk about why evidence matters and how make the best use of it.
Five lessons we’ve learnt in our first five years
...commissioners, policymakers, and frontline workers with the answers they need. And these centres have developed innovative ways of helping decision makers act on this evidence. Alongside the network, we’ve also...
The Trial Advice Panel: supporting a more experimental government
Over the past 5 years, the What Works Team has championed what we call the ‘What Works approach’ as a better way of making policy across government: identifying problems using good data, designing a solution using the best evidence available, …