The What Works Centres

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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is the original UK What Works Centre, created with the aim of better translating evidence of effective interventions into front line medicine.

The Education Endowment Foundation focuses on interventions that improve educational attainment and achievement, particularly for pupils from vulnerable backgrounds. It has funded hundreds of randomised controlled trials in the education sector.

The College of Policing, also known as the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction, focuses on interventions that reduce crime at the point where citizens may come in contact with the criminal justice system.

The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth aims to improve the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions and policies designed to improve growth at a local level.

Foundations, the What Works Centre for Children and Families, was created by the merger between the Early Intervention Foundation and the What Works Centre for Children's Social Care.

The Centre for Ageing Better is focused on promoting evidence to increase the wellbeing of adults in older age.

The Youth Futures Foundation aims to generate evidence that supports young people into employment and to reduce the number who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). 

The Wales Centre for Public Policy is a cross-policy centre that provides evidence to Welsh policy-makers and civil servants.

The Youth Endowment Fund is focused on preventing young people becoming involved in violence, either as perpetrators or victims.

TASO (Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education) aims to generate evidence the reduces the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students. 

The Money and Pension Service is focused on helping everyone make the most of their money, with a particular interest in the poorest members of society.