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DfE innovation project 'saves councils up to £2m a year'

An early intervention project that received funding through the Department for Education's social care innovation programme saves councils up to £2.1m a year, an evaluation report has found.

The Pause project - which was first set up in Hackney to support women who have already had a child taken into care to break the cycle of repeat pregnancies - was initially handed £3m from the innovation fund in November 2014 to establish a second project in Hackney, as well as new projects in Doncaster, Greenwich, Hull, Islington, Newham, and Southwark.

In November last year the project was cited by Education Secretary Justine Greening as being among the three most successful projects to emerge from the innovation programme and was handed a further £6.8m for the four-year period up to 2020 as part of the most recent round of innovation funding to extend to a further nine areas across the country.

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