Speaking at the National Children’s and Adult Services Conference in Manchester, Timpson said cash available for the innovation programme, launched in October last year, will be increased to £100m over its lifetime.
The programme was initially launched with £30m of funding available for 2014/15, but Timpson had previously promised that more would follow if the ideas put forward merited it.
Timpson said the Department for Education had decided to up the amount of funding because of the “inspiring, adventurous and imaginative ideas” put forward by the near-300 bids submitted so far, half of which have which have been from local authorities.
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