What Works Centre for Children and Families

Descriptions

The services relate to a potential procurement of a service provider for the continuation of the What Works Centre for Children and Families, subject to ministerial agreement. Under the Opportunity Mission, within the Family Security pillar, reforming children’s social care is critical to keeping children safe. For expected reforms to the children’s social care system to be successful they must be based on high quality evidence of interventions that work. Subject to Ministerial agreement, we would want this service to generate and champion actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships. This should include: Becoming a What Works Network member, operating independently and setting a strategy alongside DfE Having a team of experts in conducting high quality evaluations, translating and disseminating evidence . Establishing relationships with policy makers and local leaders to establish and support delivery of interventions that work based on high quality evidence. We are seeking views on our high level service requirements and strategy which would deliver this objective. We would at a minimum expect the Cabinet Office’s requirement of What Works Centre membership to be met: collating existing evidence on the effectiveness of programmes and practices producing high-quality synthesis reports and systematic reviews in areas where they do not currently exist assessing the effectiveness of policies and practices against an agreed set of outcomes filling gaps in the evidence base by commissioning new trials and evaluations sharing findings in an accessible way supporting practitioners, commissioners and policymakers to use these findings to inform their decisions