Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has allocated to Innovation Fund projects since the creation of that fund.

The Department for Education has currently invested over £190 million in 95 projects through the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme since 2014. Innovation Programme projects are developing, testing and scaling new ways of delivering children’s social care services with the aim of improving outcomes for children and families and delivering better value for money. The Innovation Programme is also developing a bank of good practice evidence and tools to enable other councils to improve their own practice and systems and in turn improve outcomes for children.

Information about the Innovation Programme, including funding amounts for individual projects as well as independent evaluation reports, is available at http://springconsortium.com/.