Practice

Working with practice is at the heart of what we do.

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.

Working with practice is at the heart of what we do.

  • We have engaged with 132 local authorities
  • 86 local authorities are working in partnership with us

We are committed to listening to what the sector wants and needs, and to working in partnership to find out what works.

From the start of the organisations’s development, we have engaged with our key stakeholders in a number of ways including practitioner events, visits to local authorities and consultative panels.

We have heard important messages about how evidence is currently being used and what opportunities there are to build a stronger evidence base. We have formed partnerships with many local authorities to conduct primary research in children’s social care so we can find out together how evidence can improve outcomes for children and families.

We are proud to be working with so many partners in the social care sector on a variety of projects.

London boroughs

Devolved Budgets

  • Darlington
  • Hillingdon
  • Wigan

Social Workers in Schools

  • Stockport
  • Lambeth
  • Southampton

Happier Healthier Professionals

  • Bath and North East Somerset
  • Bradford
  • Bracknell Forest
  • Bromley
  • Central Bedfordshire
  • Dudley
  • Greenwich
  • Kent
  • Lambeth
  • Shropshire
  • Solihull
  • Staffordshire
  • Telford and Wrekin
  • North Tyneside
  • Wolverhampton

Practice In Need of Evidence

  • Bath and North East Somerset Council
  • Brighton and Hove City Council
  • Child Sexual Abuse Centre and Greater Manchester Local Authorities
  • London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
  • London Borough of Southwark
  • Parents and Children Together (PACT)
  • Royal Borough of Greenwich
  • South Tyneside Council
  • Warrington Borough Council

Schwartz Rounds

  • Bath and North East Somerset
  • Derby City
  • Enfield
  • Haringey
  • Warwickshire
  • West Sussex
  • Leicester City
  • Liverpool
  • Nottingham
  • Swindon
  • Walsall

Signs of Safety

  • Bexley
  • Brent
  • Bristol
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • Suffolk
  • Wakefield
  • Wokingham

Strengthening Families, Protecting Children

  • No Wrong Door:
  • Leicester City Council
  • Middlesbrough Council
  • Norfolk County Council
  • North Yorkshire Council
  • Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
  • Rochdale Borough Council
  • Warrington Borough Council
  • Family Safeguarding:
  • Cambridgeshire Council
  • Hertfordshire Council
  • Lancashire County Council
  • Swindon Borough Council
  • Telford & Wrekin Council
  • Walsall Council
  • Wandsworth Borough Council
  • Family Valued:
  • Coventry City Council
  • Darlington Council
  • Leeds Council
  • Newcastle City Council
  • Sefton Council
  • Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
  • Warwickshire County Council

Supporting Families, Investing in Practice

Family Group Conference

  • Bath and North East Somerset Council
  • Birmingham Council
  • Blackpool Council
  • Bromley Council
  • Derbyshire Council
  • Knowsley Council
  • Lambeth Council
  • Lancashire County Council
  • Leicestershire Council
  • Lewisham Council
  • Merton Council
  • Middlesbrough Council
  • North East Lincolnshire
  • Northamptonshire Council
  • Nottingham City
  • Plymouth Council
  • Redcar and Cleveland Council
  • Rotherham Council
  • Salford Council
  • Sheffield Council
  • Shropshire Council
  • Southampton Council
  • Staffordshire Council
  • Sunderland Council

Family Drug and Alcohol Courts

  • Bedford Borough
  • Buckinghamshire Council
  • Camden Council
  • Central Bedfordshire Council
  • Croydon Council
  • East Sussex Council
  • Essex Council
  • Gateshead Council
  • Gloucestershire Council
  • Kent Council
  • Leeds Council
  • Luton Council
  • Milton Keynes Council
  • Newcastle Council
  • North Tyneside Council
  • Richmond
  • Royal Borough of Kingston
  • Solihull Council
  • Somerset Council
  • Southend Council
  • Stockport Council
  • Suffolk Council
  • Sutton Council
  • Walsall Council
  • Wandsworth Borough
  • Warwickshire Council

Mockingbird

  • Barnsley
  • Cheshire East
  • Sheffield
  • Shropshire
  • South Tyneside
  • Staffordshire
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • Telford and Wrekin