The Department intended the Innovation Programme to achieve replication of successful new approaches, better life chances for children receiving help from the social care system and better value for money across children’s social care. The Department funded 94 projects through the Innovation Programme, before selecting six it considered to be most promising from initial evidence for further testing across 57 further locations through its two key successor programmes.22 In all, the Department reported 58 of the original 94 projects continuing after initial funding ended, 38 of which had spread beyond their initial locations.23 Hertfordshire County Council, one of the innovator authorities funded by the Innovation Programme, described extending the reach of its Family Safeguarding project to 27 other authorities, only 10 of which were directly funded by the Innovation Programme and key successor funds.24