"Partnerships is our game," says Edwina Grant OBE, executive director of education and children services (DCS) at Lancashire County Council.
The latest example of Lancashire's partnership approach involves the council working with police, schools, health and voluntary organisations to implement a new early help and practice model in the county with the aim of reducing the number of looked-after children.
The initiative will see the council invest £6m in implementing the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children approach over the next three years, supplemented by a share of £84m the government has set aside to roll out the programme in 18 local authorities.
Strengthening Families, Protecting Children will see children's agencies working together to provide early help to struggling families so that children can remain at home instead of being subject to a care order. It was pioneered by Hertfordshire County Council in 2015.
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