Children’s Services

Meet our Children’s Services team

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• Ailidh Van Wyk

  

  Associate Director of Client Engagement

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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 (maternity leave)

  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

  

  Assistant Divisional Lead - 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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• 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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• Lucy Connick

  

  Senior Consultant - Children's Services

  Geographic coverage:

  South East / South Coast

  My specialisms:

  • Corporate Parenting
  • Commissioning
  • Youth/Early Help/Adolescents
  • Community Safety
  • CSE, Exploitation, Missing Children, Specialist Services, UASC
  • Disabilities
  • Clinical Therapy/CAHMS

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• Angico Daley

  

  Senior Consultant - Children’s Services

  Geographic coverage:

  London & Home Counties

  My specialisms:

  • MASH/Assessment
  • Front Door
  • Youth
  • YOS
  • Early Help & Family Hubs & CSE
  • Specialist Services
  • Missing

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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

  

  Recruitment Consultant – Children’s Services

  Geographic coverage:

  South East / South CoastUK Wide

  My specialisms:

  • Quality Assurance and Performance
  • Assessment and Front Door
  • MASH
  • Family Safeguarding,
  • Child in need and Child Protection
  • Improvement and Transformation
  • Ofsted Readiness

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