In this strategic role, you will lead the development and delivery of high-quality and impactful policy and research activity to influence and change UK Government policy and improve the lives of disadvantaged children, young people, and families.

As Action for Children’s expert in our key policy priority areas, you will lead a team to deliver our activities in a timely, compelling, evidence-based way, collaborating with leaders across the organisation to ensure activities are informed by the experiences of disadvantaged children.

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The London IV and Advocacy Service delivers Independent Visitors, Advocacy, Appropriate Adults in Age Assessments and Return Home Interviews for children in contact with Children's Social Service.

In this role, you will be leading a dynamic and diverse team of employed and freelance children Advocates and Volunteer Coordinators that frontline these services. With casework/advice work managerial experience and a strong understanding of the rights of Children in Need, Looked After Children and Care Leavers – including young refugees and children with disabilities -, and the children safeguarding framework, you will be responsible for the provision of inclusive services to the highest standard, both to children and commissioning bodies. 

You will be a key player in delivering continuous services' improvement and innovation, within budget, as well as developing good partnership work with all stakeholders. 

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Antiques Roadshow presenter and Action for Children celebrity ambassador, Ronnie Archer-Morgan, was at the launch of our children in care campaign, A Place to Call Home.

At the launch event, we asked Ronnie a few questions about his experience in care, the state of the UK care system and what he hopes to see change in the future.

​Angharad’s challenging childhood took a huge toll on her mental health. But with support from Action for Children, she’s building a safer and happier future.

Angharad grew up in care. And like a lot of children in care, her childhood had a huge impact on her mental health. She was just two years old when her and her siblings were taken into foster care after suffering abuse and neglect at home. Those early experiences had a lasting impact on Angharad.

After moving between foster families, she eventually found a loving home and foster carers who she came to call Mum and Dad.

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​9-15 September marks this year's Remember a Charity Week - an opportunity to consider leaving a gift to charity in your will.

Last year 25% of our donations came from gifts in wills. These gifts are a crucial way for us to continue supporting children and young people in the UK, and ensure they have the safe and happy childhoods they deserve.

This includes young people like Charlie.

For as long as he can remember, 18-year old Charlie has lacked stability in his life. From the age of six, he was placed in and out of foster care before going to live with his dad. However, this wasn’t the stable, safe home-life he had hoped for, and he again spent the next few years moving back and forth in unstable accommodation.

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Every 15 minutes, a child goes into care in the UK. From that moment, their whole world is turned upside down.

They’ve often already faced huge challenges in their young lives. And now they’re in care, the world can see them differently. With the number of children going into care rising, we’re sharing four things you should know about the UK care system – from how many extra foster families are needed in the UK to the percentage of siblings separated in care.

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A bit about the role 
The Director of Transformation is a new role to Action for Children and will play a critical part in delivering the organisation's business improvement targets and implementing strategic improvements to optimise the business functions.

You will roadmap our strategic ambitions through identification and build of business cases that highlight opportunities to reduce costs and support ongoing improvements to the efficiency of the organisation.

How you'll help to create brighter futures 

• Working with the Executive Leadership Team to ensure that key programmes, projects, and priorities in the business plan are aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation.
• Establishing and leading a PMO function that supports the delivery of the business plan and other strategic change across Action for Children.
• Ensuring that proposed change activities are supported by evidence-based business cases based on sound financial analysis and resource implications.
• Working with delivery teams across the organisation to ensure that all key transformation activities have appropriate governance in place.

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A bit about the role 
In this critical role reporting to the Director of Strategy and Implementation, you will deliver strategic leadership across all areas of Influencing and manage the Policy, Campaigns and Public Affairs teams. Working with leaders across the organisation, your passion, political knowledge and innovative thinking will help us to secure political change for disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK.

How you'll help to create brighter futures 

• Leading the evolution of Action for Children's influencing strategy to secure policy change across the four nations of the UK.
• Leading effective delivery of Action for Children's policy development, research, public affairs and campaigning functions.
• Developing impactful influencing campaigns, designed to deliver change for children.
• Establishing and maintaining high level, productive relationships with key external political stakeholders and partners, including government ministers, politicians, civil servants and special advisers.
• Work with the CEO and other senior leaders in Action for Children to develop an effective engagement strategy with key external stakeholders.
• Providing expert leadership by advising on political issues and developments.
• Work with the Director of Brand and Communications to identify and develop impactful media stories.
• Representing Action for Children to external audiences, including at Parliamentary events, Select Committees, professional networks, conferences and other influential forums.

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Location: Can be office based or remote, but with travel required in the role, particularly across the home counties, London and South-East and South-West of England 

A bit about the role
Reporting to the Managing Director of Children's Services, you will provide dynamic strategic leadership to the England South Children's Services management team, alongside the National Director-England North, to deliver high quality, safe and efficient services throughout England in line with agreed contracts and practice standards. 

You will drive the delivery of both existing and new contracts and focus your attention on the significant growth planned in England South.  A key element of our growth strategy in England is increasing our foothold in the major cities, particularly London, so you will have demonstrable experience of engaging commissioners in a competitive commissioning environment and converting into successful and viable business.  We also plan to open new residential children's homes in the coming year, so you will ideally have experience of commissioning and/or managing the delivery of a range of children's services provision, including knowledge of children's homes at a senior level. 

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​Location: Northwest England, Salford Office – Hybrid - (with regular travel to support foster carers in the Northwest area)

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract – Until April 30th 2025- Full Time  -  37 hours per week.

A bit about the role
North West Fostering service offers fostering placements using a therapeutic framework which draws upon theory and evidence around attachment and trauma-informed principles to scaffold the support that we offer to children and young people. Our aim is to provide safe, stable, supportive homes for children and young people who have a history of attachment disruption, abuse, neglect and trauma.  

We also offer an innovative WRAP service that supports children and young people who are either in Local Authority/IFA fostering and whose placements are at risk of breakdown. The Wrap service is designed to help prevent placement breakdown and maximize stability for a young person.

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