The Department for Education awarded £4.8m of Innovation Programme funding in March to the Signs of Safety project to implement the social work model in 10 local authorities.
Signs of Safety - developed in Australia in the 1990s and led in the UK by Professor Eileen Munro - is a strengths-based model of social work that encourages child protection teams to focus on the relationship between practitioner and family, to be critical of their work and learn from it, and use clear language that families can understand.
The 10 authorities - Brent, Bristol, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Tower Hamlets, Wakefield, West Sussex and Wokingham - have been "rethinking processes, reporting structures and systems", according to the DfE.
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