A briefing put together by the organisation, Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People by Spreading Innovation, said that the Department for Education's Social Care Innovation Programme has put a spotlight on many new innovative approaches in the sector, but the challenge is how to maximise the impact of this work.
It highlights "learning from failure" as a "system-wide issue" that needs to be considered in the future.
A number of projects funded through the innovation programme have received positive evaluations. 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 - saves councils up to £2.1m a year. However, Scie said negative evaluation reports are not common.
"Innovation implies that some ideas will fail, but it is noticeable that very few of the DfE Innovation Programme projects received a negative evaluation," the briefing states.
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