We know the sectors we operate in
At Outcomes UK, all of our consultants are practitioners in their field, with hands-on experience and knowledge of how our sector works. Our expertise is specifically in:
Children’s Services
· Safeguarding (LSCB)
· Child Death Overview panels
· Children's social care - child protection, preventative services, Looked After Children (LAC) services (incl. adoption, fostering, children's homes, children with disabilities)
· Early Years and Childcare (incl. children's centres)
· Youth Services (incl Integrated Youth Offering)
· PSHE related programmes e.g. anti-bullying strategies
· Alternative Education provision (EOTAS, PRUs)
· Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
· Multi-agency working (lead professional and common assessment framework implementation)
Health & Social Care
· Protection of Vulnerable Adults
· Adult social care
· Adult and older adult social care and health integration
· Adult learning disabilities
· Primary Care Provision
Our services are comprehensive and complementary
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 are:
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'.
CAMHS Consultants Ltd 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, CAMHS Consultants Ltd 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 both the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health Care Services Improvement Partnership, 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.
