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<p>The What Works Network helps deliver more effective and efficient public sector
services by creating and sharing high-quality evidence to inform decisions by practitioners
and policymakers.</p><p>The 13 What Works Centres that comprise the network receive
funding from a variety of sources, and departments and public bodies are major funders
for many.</p><ol><li><p>The Education Endowment Foundation received a £125 million
endowment in 2011 from the DfE, to be spent over 15 years. It received a subsequent
£137 million endowment from DfE in 2022. It receives additional funding from the DfE
and other parties as outlined in its annual report and financial statements. In the
financial year ending March 2022, it reported £30.4 million in grants from DfE.</p></li><li><p>The
Youth Endowment Fund received a £200 million endowment in the Home Office in 2019,
to be spent over 10 years. It receives additional funding from the Home Office (via
a Centre of Excellence grant) and other parties as outlined in its annual report and
financial statements.</p></li><li><p>The Youth Futures Foundation received £90 million
via the Dormant Assets Scheme in 2019, and a further £20 million via the scheme in
2022. It receives a small amount of other grant income as outlined in its annual report
and financial statements – in 2021 this other grant income was approximately £21,000.</p></li><li><p>The
Centre for Homelessness Impact is primarily funded by an anonymous private donor.
In the financial year ending June 2022, this total was £1.65 million. It receives
additional funding from other parties – including DLUHC, MoJ, the Cabinet Office and
the National Institute for Health Research – as outlined in its annual report and
financial statements. In the financial year ending June 2022, this additional funding
amounted to approximately £462,000.</p></li><li><p>The Centre for Ageing Better received
a £49.6 million endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2014, to be
spent over 15 years. It receives additional funding from other parties – including
UKRI in the fiscal year ending March 2022 – as outlined in its Report of the Trustees
and financial statements.</p></li><li><p>The Wales Centre for Public Policy was awarded
£9 million in 2022, to be spent over five years. Its core funders are the Economic
and Social Research Council, the Welsh Government and Cardiff University.</p></li><li><p>The
What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth is funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council and three government departments: BEIS, DLUHC, and DfT. It has received approximately
£1.4 million per year under its current grant.</p></li><li><p>Two centres – the Early
Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care – have recently
merged into one centre, which is operating as What Works for Early Intervention and
Children’s Social Care. DfE has been the primary funder of both organisations historically,
and plans to be the primary funder of this merged organisation in the future. The
funding figures provided relate to the centres in their previous forms.</p></li><ul><li><p>What
Works Children’s Social Care was primarily funded by the DfE. In the financial year
ending March 2022, the grants it received from DfE totalled approximately £17.4 million.</p></li><li><p>The
Early Intervention Foundation received funding from multiple government departments
and other funders, as outlined in its annual report and financial statements. In the
financial year ending March 2022, it received approximately £2.4 million in restricted
and unrestricted funding from its core cross-government grant, and approximately £184,000
from the Home Office.</p></li></ul><li><p>What Works Centre for Wellbeing receives
funding from a wide range of sources. Its largest funder is the National Lottery Community
Fund – in the financial year ending March 2022, it received approximately £357,000
from them. It does not receive significant public funding – in the financial year
ending March 2022, it received approximately £81,000 from DCMS.</p></li><li><p>The
Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education is primarily
funded by the Office for Students, who’ve supported the centre with £4.5 million over
4 years since 2019.</p></li></ol><p>Finally, there are three What Works Centres which
sit within professional, arms-length or non-departmental public bodies. These are:</p><ol
start="11"><li><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)</p></li><li><p>The
What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (part of the College of Policing)</p></li><li><p>The
Money and Pensions Service</p></li></ol><p>Smaller What Works Centre functions sit
within each of these larger organisations. The Cabinet Office does not have information
regarding the precise funding levels available for the What Works sub-teams within
these larger organisations, but the aggregate funding levels for these organisations
should be accessible in the public domain.</p><p> </p>
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