Speaking at a Department for Education “innovation” networking event, children’s minister Edward Timpson, said the combined children’s services of Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster, have been handed the cash in order to “completely redesign their entire children’s social care system from within”.
It is hoped that the changes will allow for better use of expertise and evidence, and mean professionals get to spend more time with children and families.
Part of the changes will involve using “detailed modelling and tracking” to identify and support children at greatest risk of coming into care as adolescents, Timpson said.
“We’re putting in £4 million of funding from the programme in recognition of tri-borough’s truly impressive ambition and the opportunity it offers to test a new way of doing things and blaze a trail for others,” he added.
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