Stronger Systems.
Better Outcomes.
Strategic support for local authorities and system partners.
Support shaped around the system you are working in.
You may be responding to reforms or inspections, facing budget pressures, redesigning a service, or trying to bring partners around one shared direction.
I help you make sense of the whole picture and move from complexity to practical action. I work with local authorities, ICBs and their partners to get to the root of challenges and design solutions that make a difference.
My support is always tailored to your needs, evidence based and focused on outcomes that matter for children, young people, families and communities.
Commissioning & Sufficiency
Strategy, market development, placement pathways, brokerage, high cost provision.
I can help you understand need, close gaps and create more sustainable, local solutions.
Service Improvement & Transformation
Turning policy and local insights into workable models, governance and delivery plans.
Design and deliver change that strengthens services and systems for the long term.
Partnership & System Working
Strengthen relationships, align priorities and enable collective impact.
Diagnostic review, leadership support and sustainable recommendations.
Experience grounded in delivery.
Over 15 years experience across health, education and social care.
Experience working in public sector, private providers and charity organisations.
Clinical, operational and senior strategic leadership experience.
Experience in commissioning and providing services at local, regional and national levels.
Local Authority and NHS senior leadership and commissioning expertise
Successfully supported SEND and ILACS improvement for systems.
Evidence of working with challenges like yours.
Commissioning & Sufficiency
Strengthening placement commissioning and sufficiency
Diagnostic review, financial oversight, management grip, integrated commissioning and implementation. Read more…
Commissioning & Sufficiency
Developing a shared approach to regional care commissioning
Regional strategy, shared principles, stakeholder alignment, sufficiency and market development.
Partnership & System Working
Developing better local solutions for children with complex needs
Bespoke placements, joint funding, service development and alternatives to high-cost external provision
Partnership & System Working
Strengthening multi-agency oversight of provider quality and risk
Extending processes across social care, SEND and health so risk, quality and contract intelligence could be considered together.
Service Improvement & transformation
Redesigning short breaks without reducing support
Pathway mapping, co-production, public consultation, political engagement, innovation funding and implementation. Read more…
Commissioning & Sufficiency
Commissioning SEND independent specialist placements differently
Organisational redesign, joined-up decision-making, placement intelligence and clearer accountability. Read more…
A clear path from understanding to sustainable improvement
Evidence-based Diagnosis | Proportionate Improvement | Lasting Change
Your system will have its own history, pressures and possibilities…
I will not arrive with a fixed answer. We can begin by understanding what is happening now and what workable improvement would look like for you. We work together to agree a sustainable improvement plan.