FOUNDATIONS - WHAT WORKS CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Registered charity 1188350 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WHAT WORKS FOR CHILDREN'S SOCIAL CARE, WHAT WORKS FOR EARLY INTERVENTION AND CHILDREN'S SOCIAL CARE
What Works for Children's Social Care seeks better outcomes for children, young people and their families by bringing the best available evidence to practitioners and other decision makers across the children's social care sector.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity held £2.6m of free reserves as at 31 March 2025, which is in line with its stated policy target of holding between £2.3m and £2.8m. Per the trustees' report, the charity is predominantly funded by the Department for Education, with its main grant renewed until March 2027, and the trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Department for Education (77% of income)
“This included grants from the Department for Education totalling £5,576,789” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: between £2.3m and £2.8m (held: £2.6m)
“The charity aims to hold between £2.3m and £2.8m of free reserves” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustee Jenny Coles is a trustee of Coram’s Children’s charity; grants paid to Coram.
“Jenny Coles, a trustee of the charity, is a trustee of Coram’s Children’s charity. During the year grants of £66,694 were paid to Coram” — page 53
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- BIRCH, Martin — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
- PATEL, Krupesh Vinodkumar — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
- BAIG, Rashida Akhtar — director, appointed 16/10/2025not on trustee list
- ARMSTRONG, Hilary, Baroness — director, appointed 20/11/2024on trustee list
- WHITE, Sam — director, appointed 07/10/2024on trustee list
- AULADIN, Reshard Sheik Mahmad — director, appointed 15/12/2022on trustee list
- PEARCE, Nicholas Robin, Professor — director, appointed 15/12/2022on trustee list
- RAMCHANDANI, Paul Gulab, Professor — director, appointed 15/12/2022on trustee list
Official officers record.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (21/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FOUNDATIONS - WHAT WORKS CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held £2.6m of free reserves as at 31 March 2025, which is in line with its stated policy target of holding between £2.3m and £2.8m. Per the trustees' report, the charity is predominantly funded by the Department for Education, with its main grant renewed until March 2027, and the trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Government & lottery funding
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