Working with Capita Strategic Children’s Services offers the opportunity to make a significant contribution to children’s services in local authorities and other settings. Assignments might include interim management, project management, strategic or specialist consultancy.
We have high expectations of our consultants who frequently have to work in challenging but exciting contexts where use of their significant skills and knowledge is demanded. Our consultants thrive on challenge and change, frequently demonstrating their resilience, creativity and determination to find solutions for our clients.
We employ permanent staff with senior experience across the full range of children’s services offering a competitive remuneration package, opportunities for professional development and a professional support structure.
Our large team of associates provide additional capacity and specialist support on Capita Strategic Children's Services assignments. We seek to maintain regular communication with them, ensuring that we are aware of their availability, providing updates on national issues, giving opportunities to discuss any issue of concern with a senior manager and holding twice yearly meetings.
Who we are
Capita Strategic Children’s Services is one of the fastest growing providers of strategic management support to local authority children’s services. We have a large team of over forty permanent staff and over a hundred associate consultants all with senior management experience in local authorities, the private or voluntary sectors. These include former Directors and Deputy Directors of Children’s Services, Social Services and Education Departments.
What we do
Capita Strategic Children's Services consultants work across the full spectrum of children’s services providing interim management and consultancy. We have worked in over 50 local authorities and have undertaken significant assignments for DfE and Government Offices. We also manage the National Strategies on behalf of DfE.Our success is built on the quality of our staff and our services are in constant and growing demand in response to which our range of services is steadily expanding.
During the last year our consultants have worked across all of the following areas:
- Children’s Social Care – including Safeguarding and Children in Public Care
- SEN/Inclusion/Disability services
- School Improvement - secondary and primary
- Early Years
- 14-19
- Corporate Governance
- Performance and Resource management
- ICT
- BSF/Academies/Capital and School Place Planning.