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Bringing the 'what works' mindset to tackling youth crime and violence

Posted by: Dr Jo Casebourne, Posted on: 8 May 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

Find out how the Youth Endowment Fund aims to prevent young people from becoming involved in crime and serious violence.

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Supporting evidence-informed children’s social work: Creating a What Works toolkit

Posted by: Louise Bazalgette, Posted on: 11 April 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

Tips from the What Works Centre for Children's Social Care on how to create an evidence-sharing platform for practitioners.

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How we found out what works in improving people’s financial capability

Posted by: Roxana Prisacaru, Posted on: 2 April 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

Millions of pounds are spent every year on interventions that aim to help people in the UK better manage their money. Even so, relatively little was known about ‘what works’ to improve financial capability – until now.

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The challenges of being a trailblazer: Learning about learning

Posted by: Dr Michael Sanders, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

We need to keep learning not just about what works, but about the best ways to unearth those answers.

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What makes a good innovation fund?

Posted by: Edward Orlik, Posted on: 6 March 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

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.

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What works in increasing diversity in universities?

Posted by: Susannah Hume and Michael Bennett, Posted on: 28 February 2019 - Categories: Blog posts, Case studies, Guest blogs

Discover how King’s College London is generating and using evidence to widen university participation and improve outcomes for disadvantaged students

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What a relief, there's a coffee machine in the office!

Posted by: Dr Emily Power, Posted on: 27 February 2019 - Categories: Blog posts

The What Works Team's new Evaluation Lead, Emily Power, reflects on her experience of joining the What Works Team on secondment from Cancer Research UK

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Inside the world’s ‘what works’ teams

Posted by: Dr Jen Gold, Posted on: 14 January 2019 - Categories: Blog posts
An image of the earth inside a conical test tube

Governments around the world are investing in experimentation units to improve the quality of evidence used in decision-making.

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Using data to help break the cycle of reoffending

Posted by: Sarah French, Posted on: 21 August 2018 - Categories: Case studies, Guest blogs
Justice Data Lab uses administrative data and quasi-experimental methods to understand the impact of different rehabilitation services.

This is a guest post from the Justice Data Lab, which uses quasi-experimental methods to help organisations supporting the rehabilitation of offenders to understand and improve their effectiveness. Across the...

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What Works 101: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Posted by: Janine Ostick, Posted on: 1 August 2018 - Categories: Resources for civil servants, What Works 101

...and turn them into accessible guidance or toolkits – catalogues of which interventions are most effective in different policy areas, according to the best studies around the world. What Works...

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What Works is about bringing better evidence and experimental techniques to bear on public policy.

The Cabinet Office What Works Team coordinates the What Works Network and the Cross Government Trial Advice Panel, and we work within government to improve policy through evidence use and experimentation.

In this blog, we bring together examples of best practice and resources for civil servants who want to find out what works and put robust evidence to good use.

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