Policy paper

Children’s Social Care Innovation programme

A programme that seeks to develop, test and share effective ways of supporting children who need help from children’s social care services.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 3 April 2016
• Last updated: 16 July 2019
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  1. 16 July 2019

     Added the names of supporting organisations.

  2. 4 July 2019

     Added new expression of interest form and updated programme information.

  3. 22 May 2019

     Added an expression of interest form for the supporting families: investing in practice programme.

  4. 7 November 2016

     Updated information about how to get involved.

  5. 3 April 2016

     First published.

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Expression of interest form – supporting families: investing in practice programme

Ref: DfE-00140-2019

MS Word Document, 65.1 KB

Details

The supporting families: investing in practice programme is looking to work with up to 40 local authorities to test 2 projects from the Children’s Social Care Innovation programme.

These projects are:

• family drug and alcohol courts, supported by the Centre for Justice Innovation
• a model of family group conferencing, supported by Daybreak

We are adding the Mockingbird family model, supported by The Fostering Network, into the supporting families: investing in practice programme, which will be looking to work with up to 8 further local authorities.

Local authorities that are interested in this project should email the expression of interest form to wwcprogrammes@nesta.org.uk by midnight on 2 August 2019.

If you cannot open the Word document, email wwcprogrammes@nesta.org.uk to request the expression of interest form in an alternative format.