Elaine Redding

EXECUTIVE COACHING – POLICY AND CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE

With more than 30 years’ experience in the field of children’s social care, an accomplished and respected Executive Director across all Children’s Services – social care, SEND and education, who is passionate about implementing and embedding best practice to ensure good outcomes for children and young people. As a systems leader Elaine understands what it is to walk in the shoes of those receiving and delivering services, developing policy, working with local government reorganisation (LGR) agenda, Transformation, and alternative delivery models within local government.  Elaine is also a Department of Education appointed Children’s Advisor.

As an experienced senior Executive, working within the public and private sectors Elaine is one of a few senior colleagues from the public sector services, including Cabinet Office and Political Advisors who leads on, or supports technical assessments for executive roles within United Arab Emirates government departments. Coaching and mentoring are also a feature of this work. Elaine is well versed in supporting continued professional development within culturally diverse organisations.

Having worked with high levels of scrutiny, Elaine also understands the need for pace and purpose when being required to improve. Equally the need for sustaining that improvement even when outstanding is reached – there is continuous improvement requirement.

As the co-author of an independent DfE-commissioned review of alternative delivery models involving the development of capacity and diversity of children’s social care, Elaine has experience of alternative models of delivery and how to explore and deliver the best option for a local authority. It can never be a one size fits all approach.  Every local authority is a different eco-system which needs to be understood from the inside and the outside. You will know what is needed in your own organisation and space. it’s the response and implementation that needs to be On Point…. and that’s us.