Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Spending Review 2020, what criteria the Government will use to determine the (a) funding allocated to and (b) success of the Growing Up Well project.

Growing Up Well is a Shared Outcomes Fund project worth £11.8 million over 3 financial years, between 2020/21 and 2022/23. It will identify, and test, data and digital innovations that will improve outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable families with children aged 0 to 5.

The project will focus on improving the family user experience of early years services; improving local level professional collaboration and planning around the family and child; and greater alignment of early years objectives and funding across government.

The project is currently in its mobilisation phase. A process and impact evaluation will be commissioned to measure success. The evaluation of the project will inform future policy development.