Evaluation of the effectiveness of support provided to Local Authorities through DfE-funded programmes

This is a joint evaluation of the Department's improvement and intervention programmes and the Partners in Practice (PiP) support for Local Authority (LA) sector improvement. The evaluation will include a multi-stage approach drawing on the methodologies successfully used in our previous evaluations. This will enable us to understand to what extent the improvement and interventions programmes and the PiP sector improvement support have had an impact on improving LA performance and, ultimately, outcomes for children...