The partnership is also gathering examples of innovative work already taking place to improve the lives of vulnerable children.
Children’s charity Coram’s innovation arm, Coram-i, is running the partnership, that involves eight councils as well as Microsoft. It is also looking for a further nine councils to sign up.
To launch the partnership, called the Coram Innovation Incubator, a survey has been released highlighting the attitudes to innovation among children’s services providers.
The 41 providers that responded include councils, charities, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) and voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs).
This found that just over a third (39 per cent) describe their attitude to innovation as “game-changing or radical”. However, most describe their level of innovation as either “sustaining” or “incremental”.
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