The tender process to award the contract for the development of the assessment for the Approved Child and Family Practitioner (ACFP) status is ongoing. The Department for Education, therefore, is unable to answer any questions regarding bidders or contract awards. Once a contract has been awarded, details will be published on https://www.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> The Department fully recognises the importance of high quality social workers. We are exploring a new accredited status of ACFP in recognition of the need to have absolute public confidence in social workers who are working with our most vulnerable children: children in need (Children Act 1989); children in need of protection; and children in public care.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> The assessment for the ACFP status will test the skills and competencies set out in the statement on knowledge and skills for child and family social work. The statement, drafted by the Chief Social Worker with the input of over 900 social workers, covers the range of skills required of those who are lead professionals for named children and working with them under the local authority\u2019s statutory framework (commonly referred to as \u201ccase responsibility\u201d). The assessment will enable social workers to achieve the status of ACFP. The knowledge and skills statement can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/knowledge-and-skills-for-child-and-family-social-work<\/a><\/p> <\/p>"}
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Organisation Type<\/p><\/td> | Funding 2014-15<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||
Public<\/p><\/td> | £22.36 million<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||
Private<\/p><\/td> | £1.45 million<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||
Voluntary<\/p><\/td> | £1.42 million<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> £83,000 has been disbursed for central evaluation of the programme in 2014-15. In addition, all successful projects are expected to have an evaluation element. The amount allocated from within project budgets varies between five and ten percent of their total grant amount.<\/p> <\/p> The Innovation Programme projects have also been allocated funding for 2015-16. A further £75 million has been committed for this period.<\/p> <\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1605", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Edward Timpson"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Crewe and Nantwich"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Edward Timpson"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2015-03-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : [{"_value" : "228122"} , {"_value" : "228123"} ], "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2015-03-23T17:52:05.14Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-03-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Children: Social Services"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the money disbursed from the budget of her Department's Children's Social Care Innovation Programme has been allocated to organisations in the (a) public, (b) private and (c) voluntary sectors in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15 to date.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4277", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Shields"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck"} ], "uin" : "228124"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/228131", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/228131/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Children\u2019s Social Care Innovation Programme has been open for funding applications since March 2014. Funding from the programme was not available in 2013\u201314.<\/p> <\/p> For 2014-15, a total of £25.23 million has been disbursed to successful projects across the public, private and voluntary sectors:<\/p> <\/p>
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