Consultancy
Our extensive sector experience and in depth knowledge of legislation, best practice and current issues enables us to support and guide our clients effectively, offering a wide range of consultancy support to children’s services and the health and social care sector, including:
- Pre and post inspection support.
- Strategy development
- Leadership and management development
- Service and practice performance management
- Effective multi-agency partnership development
- Joint commissioning arrangements and governance
- Joint strategic needs assessments
- Commissioning strategy development
- Commissioning strategy implementation
- Service 'fitness for purpose' reviews and service improvement
- Care pathway re-engineering
- Regulated social care services quality assurance: policy, procedure, guidance, practice and performance development
However, we understand that making lasting improvements won’t be achieved simply by choosing from a list. Whatever the context, Outcomes UK works with you to determine the most effective way forward. Our broad range of specialised and related services can be drawn upon by our consultants to ensure that the consultancy service you receive is absolutely right for your needs.
We’re more than management consultants
Our consultants have extensive sector experience and in depth knowledge of legislation, best practice and current issues. They understand the processes you work to and the challenges you face. We work only in the Children’s Services, Health and Social Care sectors.
Our specialist consultancy services
Our ChildrenFirst partnership delivers high quality, value for money services, using a comprehensive transformation and change management model designed specifically to build sustainable capacity within organisations.
ChildrenFirst’s achievements include a highly successful large scale intervention in a local authority in the Yorkshire & Humberside region, subsequently rated 'the most improved Council in England'.
OUK Health is our specialist consultancy in the field of Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Offering a number of services including facilitated learning sets; needs assessments; strategy development and options appraisals, OUK Health has extensive experience of working at all levels in health and social care, the voluntary sector and in primary care.
Outcomes Based Accountability (OBA) is a recognised way of moving ‘from talk to action’. Our OBA consultancy service has worked with more than 15 Local Authorities and partners to develop an OBA approach with encouraging results.
For instance the work has contributed to:
- 50% improvement in the timeliness of Initial and Core Assessments
- 80% improvement in school attendance
- 36% decrease in youth related crime
- Lowering of repeat child protection plans or re-registering
We’re committed to long lasting improvement
It is important to us that the support and guidance we give our clients is not just effective in the short term but remains successful in the long term. Holistic and sustainable improvement to services and performance is a key value that underpins our consultancy service.
We work closely with our clients, sharing skills, knowledge, expertise and perspectives to ensure a complete understanding of the situation.
We promote continuous service development and delivery improvements and work to ensure transfer of skills and knowledge to the client.
Our track record is sound and substantial
As an established framework provider for the Department for Education, the Department of Health and the Improvement and Development Agency, we have a proven track record of achieving measurable change and adding value to children’s services and, increasingly, to adult and older adult health and social care.
Outcomes U.K Limited, Registered Company in England and Wales
Registered Office: Abberley View, Saxon Business Park, Hanbury Road, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, B60 4AD
Registered Company Number: 04785311