Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money his Department has allocated to the Partners in Practice programme.

There are currently seven Partners in Practice. These authorities are: Achieving for Children (Richmond and Kingston), Hampshire, Islington, Lincolnshire, Leeds, North Yorkshire, and Triborough (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham). The Department for Education has invested £47 million into these seven Partners in Practice from 2016-20.

Additionally, ministers have committed up to £20 million for improvement work for children’s social care for 2018-20. A proportion of this funding will fund the expansion of the programme with more local authorities joining the Partners in Practice programme from April 2018.