Analysis

Incubator grows innovative ideas

3 mins read Children's Services
New Coram-led project has seen children’s services and businesses identify new ways to tackle problems.
A digital outreach tool is an app that can help young people at risk of exploitation. Picture: Gpetric/Adobe Stock
A digital outreach tool is an app that can help young people at risk of exploitation. Picture: Gpetric/Adobe Stock

Financial pressures mean that children’s services are being asked to deliver more with less. They want to adapt existing and test new approaches to meet this growing need, but often lack the capacity to pioneer innovative practice and share it across the sector.

It was this finding from our survey and the need to galvanise innovation in the sector that prompted the launch of the Coram Innovation Incubator (CII) earlier this year, bringing together leaders from nine founding local authorities with private sector experts to develop the kind of radical innovations to practice that can have the greatest impact for children and young people.

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