Children: Social Services

(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been disbursed from the budget for her Department's Children's Social Care Innovation Programme in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 23rd March 2015

The Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme has been open for funding applications since March 2014. Funding from the programme was not available in 2013–14.

For 2014-15, a total of £25.23 million has been disbursed to successful projects across the public, private and voluntary sectors:

Organisation Type

Funding 2014-15

Public

£22.36 million

Private

£1.45 million

Voluntary

£1.42 million

£83,000 has been disbursed for central evaluation of the programme in 2014-15. In addition, all successful projects are expected to have an evaluation element. The amount allocated from within project budgets varies between five and ten percent of their total grant amount.

The Innovation Programme projects have also been allocated funding for 2015-16. A further £75 million has been committed for this period.

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