Children’s Services

Meet our Children’s Services team

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• Leah Overend

  

  Divisional Manager - Social Care

  Geographic coverage:

  Midlands & North

  My specialisms:

  • Managing Children's services, Adult social care & Public health
  • Service Improvement/ Development & Ofsted
  • LAC & Leaving care
  • Front Door (CP/CIN/ Assessment)
  • Fostering, Adoption & Corporate Parenting
  • Safeguarding & QA
  • Commissioning
  • Disabilities (Physical/Mental/ Learning)
  • Early Help / Youth Services / Troubled Families
  • Transformation, Programme and Project management

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• Jade Hidderley

  

  Divisional Lead - Children’s Services

  Geographic coverage:

  London & Home Counties

  My specialisms:

  • LAC, Care Leavers, Fostering & Adoption
  • Residential
  • Commissioning
  • Disabilities (Physical/Mental/ Learning)
  • Specialist Services (Inc Exploitation)
  • Early Help/ YOT/ Troubled Families

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• James Eddison

  

  Executive Consultant - Children’s Services

  Geographic coverage:

  London & Home Counties

  My specialisms:

  • MASH/Assessment
  • Safeguarding, Child Protection, Court & Locality
  • Quality Assurance
  • Performance & Intelligence
  • Service improvement and Ofsted

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• Lucy Connick

  

  Senior Consultant - Children's Services

  Geographic coverage:

  South East / South Coast

  My specialisms:

  • LAC, Care Leavers, Fostering & Adoption
  • Residential
  • Commissioning
  • Disabilities (Physical/Mental/ Learning)
  • Specialist Services (Inc Exploitation)
  • Early Help/ YOT/ Troubled Families
  • MASH/Assessment
  • Safeguarding, Child Protection, Court & Locality
  • Quality Assurance
  • Performance & Intelligence
  • Service improvement and Ofsted

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• Sarah Macrae

  

  Senior Consultant - Children’s Services

  Geographic coverage:

  Midlands

  My specialisms:

  • MASH/Assessment
  • Safeguarding, Child Protection, Court & Locality
  • Quality Assurance
  • Performance & Intelligence
  • Service improvement and Ofsted

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• Will Smith

  

  Recruitment Consultant - Children's Services

  Geographic coverage:

  North & Midlands

  My specialisms:

  • Contextual Safeguarding
  • Corporate Parenting (Fostering, Adoption, Residential, LAC, CIC, UASC, Care Leavers Fostering IRO)
  • Youth Services
  • Youth Offending
  • Early Help
  • Family Hubs
  • Children with Disabilities
  • Specialist Services - CSE, Exploitation Project/Programme/Transformation
  • Commissioning
  • Brokerage and Placements Commissioning
  • Adolescents

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• Scott Speed

  

  Delivery Consultant – Children’s, Adults & Public Health Services

  Geographic coverage:

  UK Wide

  My specialisms:

  • Head of Service to C-Suite level professionals
  • Front Door & Intervention
  • Safeguarding & Locality Services,
  • CLA, Fostering and Adoption
  • Youth Offending & Specialist Services (Inc Exploitation)
  • Commissioning
  • Quality Assurance, Performance & Intelligence
  • Mental Health & Safeguarding
  • Learning Disabilities & Older People
  • Reablement& Hospital Services,
  • Consultants in Public Health

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