Speaking at the National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) this week, Zahawi said a number of projects tested through the £200m Children's Social Care Innovation Programme since 2013 are "starting to pay off", and the DfE is "now in a position to say with clarity what the main features of effective practice are".
At last month's Budget £84m in funding was made available to expand three innovation programme projects to 20 further councils with "high or rising" numbers of children in care over the next five years.
"I am determined to move at pace and to continue to spread what works, so I will be supporting other local authorities to adopt and adapt a number of the best evidenced and most effective innovation projects over the next year," Zahawi said.
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