Britain’s What Works Network – a group of research centres and charities with a shared mission to commission, conduct, collate and translate causal evidence across a wide variety of policy domains – is a source of great pride for the UK government.

This paper makes the case for evidence-based policy, before recapping the history of the What Works movement and its particular structure in the United Kingdom. The remainder of the paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of greater integration and collaboration between centres, and concludes with some recommendations for how this might be achieved.