IMPROVING EVIDENCE FOR BETTER OUTCOMES

We aim to improve the lives of children and families through setting standards and generating the best research into what works for children’s social care.

What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) merged in December 2022 and are now Foundations, the What Works Centre for Children & Families. You can visit our new website here

This website will remain live for now but is not being updated. Here you can find research and work we carried out as WWCSC before the new organisation was formally launched in June 2023.

What Works for Children’s Social Care seeks to improve the lives of children and families through setting standards in research and generating the best evidence into what works in children’s social care.

Our vision is for a world in which all children thrive, regardless of their early childhood experiences and that children’s services improve the lives of children who need support and protection.

We generate, collate and make accessible the best evidence for practitioners, policy makers and practice leaders.

What Works For Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) and the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) are merging. The new merged organisation is operating initially under the working name of What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care.

We work across three areas:

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