The Department for Education will today (13 March) publish a tender document for the running of the EIF, which was one of the key recommendations of Graham Allen’s two reports into early intervention (see box, right).
The Department for Education will provide £3.5m to fund the foundation for a two-year period, after which it will become self-financing, and government funding will cease.
The move is part of the government’s Social Justice Strategy being launched by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
The EIF will be independent, promote good practice in early intervention and advice councils, charities and the private sector on running and funding early intervention projects.
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