£50m funding available to find better ways of working

The Government’s Evaluation Task Force has announced it is extending its deadline to apply for funding totalling more than £50 million.

The ETF supports projects which are led by a range of government departments and aim to ‘fill evidence gaps across high-priority areas including crime and justice, education, social care, and health.’

The four funding streams available are:

• The Evaluation Accelerator Fund which aims to accelerate evaluation activity and create actionable evidence in government priority areas, tackle evidence gaps, and provide robust evidence from new policies to service delivery. 
• The Labour Market Evaluations and Trials Fund which is available to central government departments to expand the evidence base on what works to improve labour market outcomes in the economy.
• The Evaluation Development Fund, offered through UKRI, which offers 12 months of funding worth £3 million to undertake evaluation activities that build evidence on interventions for increasing opportunities and reducing disparities in economic, health and social outcomes across the UK.
• The Trial Accelerator Fund which funds projects testing and rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of interventions aimed at spreading opportunities and reducing disparities in economic, health and social outcomes across the UK.

Find out more about the EAF and apply for funding here