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Innovation in children’s care
With over 68,000 children in social care in England and a further 400,000 needing support from care services*, the Department for Education (DfE) is trying to find more effective ways of supporting vulnerable children across the country. Launched in October 2013, the DfE’s Innovation Programme is spending £100 million over two years to help fund ideas that can revolutionise the way children’s services are delivered.
Deloitte was appointed as delivery partner for the programme in June 2014 and has been designing and implementing key processes that support and enable the creation of innovative solutions, and that encourage bidders to develop the best and most ambitious bids they can.
We received almost 300 applications from a number of different organisations, and our final portfolio of 53 projects includes: offering intensive support to families at risk of breakdown through involvement with gangs or sexual exploitation; the opening of a unit to help young people who have been sexually exploited; and a practical intervention for women who have had multiple children taken into care and projects to protect children from female genital mutilation.
We are now offering coaching and technical support to each organisation to help them implement their programmes. Through providing these incentives and mechanisms for innovation, this initiative is giving better life chances to children receiving help from the social care system.
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