After our successful Socia event in March where a panel debated the importance of evaluation in order to improve Board performance, Governance magazine has published an article by Alex and David which summarises the main messages from this discussion. The article summarises the highlights from the Socia survey which compared Boards across several different sectors. This along with the output of our debate presents an argument for all Boards to consider using the UK Governance Code as a basis for all Board evaluations.