Why DO LOCAL AUTHORITIES LIKE WORKING WITH US?

• We work 'with' people. We don't 'do' to them. We become an integral part of your team – an added resource with an independent, expert voice and viewpoint.
• We create realistic and accessible time plans that support everyone's understanding of progress and can identify their own contribution to the key actions needed.
• We're particularly good at working in a collaborative way to facilitate everyone's engagement with project outcomes. The projects that people help to shape, in our experience, are the ones that are most likely to succeed. 
• We're project drivers and work to help you meet your deadlines. We always keep your vision in mind and if meeting timescales means cutting corners, we'll offer you the risk analysis to help make a decision.
• We provide strategic services to ensure you build the capacity in-house to develop you and your staff team. 
• We discuss, debate and challenge and use one-to-one teaching to build confidence through feedback. We always use national standards to enable your understanding of the benchmark required. 
• We can provide independent evaluations of learning and development projects in the care, early years and childcare sector. You don't need to explain to us the changes affecting this sector because we make it our job to keep ourselves well informed. 
• Our qualifications mean that we can observe for best practice in learning and development, support trainers, engage with quality improvement recommendations and identify opportunities for Local Authorities to strategically embed integrated working.
• We have an excellent knowledge of writing specifications for commissioning services. As facilitators, we're prepared to challenge to gain understanding about the most pertinent issues that the commissioning needs to address. Find out more.
• We understand the national drivers to set any specification within this context. We help develop others involved to be able to manage this independently, so that we work to build capacity as opposed to making you reliant on us.

To find out more about how we can use our strategic consultancy services to support your organisation, help you address some of the challenges and complexities of the national change agenda and develop a sustainable response to the needs of the sector, please get in touch.