Mission-focused policy-making is now dominating the pre-election period in the United Kingdom. In this essay, the authors propose a series of reforms designed to change government, grow its capacities and deliver its missions.

In this report, Jonathan Slater, who was the most senior civil servant in the Department for Education (UK) from 2016 to 2020, writes that while public engagement is a core part of the role of local government policy-makers, it is not seen as important for their counterparts in central 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.