About
Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families generates, synthesises and shares the evidence of what works to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families, and helps national and local decision makers put that evidence into practice. It was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in August 2019 and became Foundations on 25 May 2023, bringing together the Early Intervention Foundation and What Works for Children's Social Care. Its priority areas include supporting parenting, domestic abuse, strengthening family networks (including kinship care and family group decision making) and relationships for care-experienced children. In 2025/26 it worked to influence legislation, statutory guidance, inspection frameworks and government programmes, including the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act and the Department for Education's Children's Social Care National Framework, where the Practice Guides commissioned by the DfE and produced by Foundations are embedded. Its Evidence into Practice programme, launched this year, takes a local, regional and national approach to getting evidence into practice, anchored by nine Partner Places, one in each region of England, each receiving direct funding and hands-on support. Chief Executive: Dr Jo Casebourne. Registered office: Alliance House, 12 Caxton Street, London SW1H 0QS.
Key Metrics
Key Outcomes
- Nine Partner Places, one in each region of England, now receive direct funding and hands-on support to embed evidence-led practice through the new Evidence into Practice programme
Geography
England
