Bids for a slice of the £30m children’s service innovation fund opened today, with the government indicating that its priority areas for the first year of the programme will be developing new models of social work practice and rethinking support for vulnerable adolescents in or on the edge of care.
First announced by children’s minister Edward Timpson at last October’s National Children and Adults Services conference, the innovation programme aims to harvest and test “adventurous” ideas that professionals have to improve services for vulnerable children.
As well as the £30m in 2014/15, Timpson said there would be “much more to follow” in 2015/16 “if the ideas are there to merit it”.
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