Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have delivered the warning around the DfE’s £333m Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
This programme funded 94 projects from 2014 and 2020 and includes a 14-year commitment to evaluate the schemes.
MPs want the DfE to prove that evidence it is gathering around projects “is leading to improvements on the front line”.
In its report into the programme the PAC finds that the department has “further to go to embed a culture of evaluation in social care” to ensure that opportunities to use this learning to improve outcomes for children in care “are not lost”.
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