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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.

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  • read more about Prison based Mother and Baby Units: a case review of social work decision making
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    Prison based Mother and Baby Units: a case review of social work decision making

    24 November 2022
    The Chief Social Worker for Children and Families in England shares insight from the case review of applications to mother & baby units in prison, investigating how decisions are made and the role of social work.
  • read more about Getting out and about – autumn conferences 2022
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    Getting out and about – autumn conferences 2022

    17 November 2022
    Nimal Jude, Head of Practice Development and Bev Curtis, Practice Development Manager, discuss why the recent autumn conferences are such a great opportunity to speak directly to the people who are key to our work: social workers. 
    Our stand at Community Care live 2022. A long white table with piles of merchandise and leaflets on it, whilst banners with our branding on line the back of the stand
  • read more about Evaluating the No Recourse Early Action Model
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    Evaluating the No Recourse Early Action Model

    15 November 2022
    Eleanor Ott and Jamie Rowland from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation discuss the findings of their evaluation of the No Recourse Early Action Model.
  • read more about New research and evaluation through Open Funding Rounds
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    New research and evaluation through Open Funding Rounds

    3 November 2022
    Senior Programmes Manager Fardawza Ahmed discusses our Open Funding Round initiative and introduces the first series of reports.
  • read more about Our PINE programme: North Tyneside’s self-evaluation experience
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    Our PINE programme: North Tyneside’s self-evaluation experience

    26 October 2022
    Juliet Morris and Kirsty Parsons from North Tyneside Local Authority share their experience of using PINE to evaluate their Early Help Mash service.
  • read more about WWCSC become first charity to create an archive in the Office for National Statistics
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    WWCSC become first charity to create an archive in the Office for National Statistics

    20 October 2022
    Our DPO James Robson discusses WWCSC's groundbreaking new data archive and the importance of safe data sharing.
  • read more about Executive chair and CEO announced for new organisation formed by merger of the Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care
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    Executive chair and CEO announced for new organisation formed by merger of the Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children’s Social Care

    18 October 2022
    Josh MacAlister and Dr Jo Casebourne have been appointed as executive chair and CEO, respectively, of the new organisation that will be formed through merging the two charities. The new merged organisation – which will operate initially under the working name of What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care – will bring together […]
  • read more about What works for Kinship Care and Special Guardianship Orders
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    What works for Kinship Care and Special Guardianship Orders

    7 October 2022
    "Kinship Care Week 2022 falls at a time of unprecedented attention on the role of kinship care. This year it follows the publication of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which made several recommendations surrounding kinship care. These include a call for increased support for kinship carers, with recommendations focussing on financial allowances, kinship care leave and access to legal aid and advice. However, from the supporting evidence> we provided to the Review it became very clear that the use of kinship care arrangements vary across local authorities."
  • read more about A kitbag for direct work
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    A kitbag for direct work

    20 September 2022
    Research Associate Emily Walker talks through the findings of “Putting Kitbag to Work” and the difficulty of defining direct work in different LAs.
  • read more about Reflecting on the year so far
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    Reflecting on the year so far

    5 September 2022
    September always has a distinctly new term feeling about it, and not just for children as the summer holidays draw to a close. This year perhaps more so than others, as we have a new Prime Minister in place, and will shortly be hearing which education Ministers will be leading crucial policy reforms for children’s […]
  • read more about Summer internship experience
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    Summer internship experience

    31 August 2022
    Our intern, Maiya Hext, shares her experience of taking part in our summer internship programme this year.
  • read more about Spark Grant Scheme round 2: advice from a current grantee
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    Spark Grant Scheme round 2: advice from a current grantee

    24 August 2022
    Clive Diaz is a researcher based at Cardiff University. In 2021, Clive and his team at CASCADE successfully applied for the Spark Grant Scheme, run by What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC), aimed at providing underrepresented and Early Career Researchers with the opportunity to lead new research projects in the field of children’s social […]