{"id":50673,"date":"2014-11-25T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T09:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5c16df3bb108fb418f80e9ca23cbf7cb"},"modified":"2014-11-25T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T09:03:55","slug":"press-release-billions-of-pounds-to-be-saved-thanks-to-new-what-works-network-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50673","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Billions of pounds to be saved thanks to new What Works Network findings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cabinet Office Minister Grant Shapps announced that billions of pounds of taxpayers\u2019 money could be saved and spent more effectively thanks to findings from the government backed What Works Centres.<\/p>\n

The What Works<\/a> Network, set up in 2013, was created to allow policy decisions to be made based on robust and insightful evidence allowing government and local decision makers to improve public services while making sure that taxpayers\u2019 money is spent effectively.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement comes as the What Works Centres and their National Adviser, Dr David Halpern, come together to publish and share their findings from across the Network for the very first time. These findings will be used by government decision makers to allocate money and resource more effectively, saving taxpayers\u2019 money and creating an even more efficient government. <\/p>\n

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Read the new report: What Works? Evidence for decision makers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of the key roles of the Network is to take complex and previously inaccessible evidence findings and turn them into practical and useable tools for decision makers. <\/p>\n

With it currently taking 17 years for empirical results in medicine to feed into clinical practice, and even longer in other policy areas, it\u2019s possible that money could be spent in this time on interventions that are inefficient or don\u2019t work. Getting that crucial evidence into the hands of decision makers as quickly as possible allows people like doctors, head teachers and police chiefs to make smarter decisions based on empirical evidence of what works and what doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Top findings from the What Works report<\/a> include:<\/p>\n