Children's minster Edward Timpson has announced a total of £36m in funding for 11 projects, including £4m for Northamptonshire County Council to continue developing its independent trust.
Meanwhile, Slough Children's Services Trust will get £1.4m to transform its staffing model by introducing "enhanced hubs", described as a more dynamic way of delivering early help and support to children in need, and introducing the "Signs of Safety" practice model and a new domestic abuse assessment response.
Slough Council was told by the Department for Education in July 2014 that children's services would be split off from local authority control and run by an independent trust in an attempt to improve performance following an Ofsted inspection in November 2013 highlighted serious weaknesses in child protection work.
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