CYP Now - Praise for DfE’s evaluation of social care innovation fund

The Department for Education’s approach to evaluation of social care innovation projects should be used as an example of good practice by other government departments, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Increased pressure on councils due to a rise in applications for EHCPs is a factor behind the proposals, DfE says. Picture: Adobe Stock

It praises the DfE’s evaluation of its £333m Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme which funded 94 projects, including an integrated mental health, education and families service to support children in or on the edge of care, targeted support for young people to secure more stable placements and a positive transition to adulthood and relationship-based support for women who have experienced removal of their children into care.

The report states that from the outset of the project, which ran between 2014 and 2020, “the department made evaluation and dissemination of learning a central part of the innovation programme”.

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