Consultancy

Strategic and Business Planning
Serious Case Reviews
Training Needs Analysis
Common Language and Thresholds
Team Building
Management Development
Mentoring
Auditing and Reviews
Advocacy
Children's Rights and Participation
Organisational Recovery
Performance Management

Our consultancy package starts with a brief, defined process of audit and needs analysis.

We will meet key personnel central to the process and examine the internal and external factors that will enhance or limit the success of the project. We examine what works well in your organisation and what you think should change

We then produce an audit report that clarifies the decisions that need to be made and the options for future work. Often this will be in stages, so it allows you to choose how much you want us to do and what you can do in house. It also makes controlling the costs much easier.

This means the audit is a service in itself. It sets out the ways in which we would be able to offer help in making the changes that you want to happen but it is also a document that you may use independently of Reconstruct.

In this way you can be clear as to what service you will be getting from Reconstruct when before you commission us.

Strategic and Business Planning | TOP

Our simple approach to this subject ensures that managers are able to identify their own common language and clarify their thoughts about the differences between targets, performance indicators, measurements, etc.

With a focus on measuring efficiency as well as costs, this service enables an organisation to make better value for money decisions.

Serious Case Reviews | TOP

Our case manager is able to draw upon a multi-disciplinary team to undertake serious case reviews. Always conscious of context and emotions our reviewers will produce a report based upon relevant, prioritised learning points from which all agencies can learn.

Training Needs Analysis | TOP

We are able to carry out training needs analyses to whatever depth the customer requires. This can be a broad brush approach to a training programme, down to a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of individual team members.

Common Language and Thresholds | TOP

Working well together in child protection is the best way to ensure the safety of children at risk. Based upon our own research and experience with various authorities around the country, we are able to work with LSCB staff to develop a common language and shared thresholds. Reconstruct have also developed a service delivery and thresholds management matrix which reflects the Every Child Matters agenda, and national best practice, and which supports professionals in agreeing and developing common language and eligibility criteria. This can be adapted to meet the needs of all agencies working with children and their families.

Team Building | TOP

Our consultants provide team building to a wide range of staff, sometimes when things are going badly and sometimes when things are going well.

Management Development | TOP

Many managers are struggling to cope with the increasing demands of central government and at the same time trying to ensure that the job still gets done with fewer and fewer staff. Delivered by someone who actually does manage, our management development programme is based upon the needs of your staff; it builds their skills (and equally importantly their confidence) and provides a real difference in the performance of teams.

Mentoring | TOP

We can provide mentors for caseworkers through to senior managers. A clear agreement is made at the outset so that you, we and the person being mentored knows what is to be provided.

Audits and Reviews | TOP

We are able to conduct individual case reviews, through to whole service audits. We have worked with social services departments, PCTs and Housing looking at:

• Diversity issues
• Case management
• Intake teams
• Child Protection Conferences
• Care of young people
• Training needs

Advocacy | TOP

As an organisation with experience of providing advocates for children and young people, we can help you with introducing advocacy services or in assessing the provision of advocacy from both a National Standards and an effective practice perspective.

Children's Rights and Participation | TOP

We can assist your managers in exploring the dilemmas between children's rights and caring for children and enable your department to identify ways of consulting and involving young people in their care and the development of services.

Organisational Recovery | TOP

If your department, or part of it, is experiencing serious difficulties a bit of independent support might help you resolve the problems. We can offer experienced senior managers who have "been there" and worked through it. In consultation with you, they can develop and help implement a tailored approach that meets your organisational needs.

Performance Management | TOP

Get Performance Management right and it can be the foundation for success; get it wrong and even the best organisations will struggle. We can provide a framework which meets Ofsted criteria and which can be developed with you to target key priorities and to support you in delivering sustainable performance improvements..