The What Works Centre for Children's Social Care is to work with six councils across two ‘change projects' until March 2020 to test out new ways of reducing the children in care population.
A total of £2.4m has been set aside for the work, with each council receiving between £400,000 and £600,000.
The first project will see social workers in Darlington, Hillingdon and Wigan given greater control over how money is spent on supporting families where there is a risk of a child being taken into care.
In Wigan a group of child protection social workers will be given a devolved budget to spend on support for families at their discretion and in Darlington social workers will allocate devolved budgets to 30 families.
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