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Funding Futures LA Webinar on our Early Years Research Analysis, Insight Reports & InfographicsCharities & Social PurposeLocal & Regional GovernmentSchool Improvement

Funding Futures LA Webinar on our Early Years Research

Together Mime, Isos Partnership and the Education Policy Institute recently launched Funding Futures – a set of research reports and tools to help funders, local authorities and policy makers target resources in early childhood at a local level for maximum impact on disadvantaged children. The project was funded by Collective Futures, Henry Smith Foundation and Ethos Foundation. On 6th November, Mime and Isos held a webinar for over 100 local authority professionals to share the findings of the research and demo the free interactive tools we built following the research. The workshop covered: ways of measuring gaps in outcomes in…
Steve Preston
November 7, 2025
Report Launch: Mayor of London’s Advice in Community Settings Interim Evaluation Report Charities & Social PurposeEvaluation & SurveysLocal & Regional GovernmentMime Publications

Report Launch: Mayor of London’s Advice in Community Settings Interim Evaluation Report

Mime and Wavehill have worked together to evaluate the Mayor of London's Advice in Community Settings grant programme. The interim evaluation report, launched today, uses a Theory of Change approach to assess the impact of the programme and whether it has produced the expected outcomes.
Rory Nethercott
February 27, 2023
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Ensuring your SEND data is ready for inspection Local & Regional GovernmentSchool ImprovementSEND & Inclusion

Ensuring your SEND data is ready for inspection

As part of their work to understand how local areas improve outcomes for children with SEND, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will look at the information that local areas use to monitor the performance of your SEND services. Your data should be timely, comprehensive, enable you to understand quickly how you are doing and, crucially, make it clear what your priorities for action are. If you find that this isn’t yet the case, you are not alone. Issues about the quality of data and the ability of managers and councillors to evaluate how they are doing have been…
Steve Preston
January 6, 2023