Consultancy

Camilla Child, BA (Hons), MSc, MA

Camilla works closely with clients to support learning and deliver change. She consults to individual organisations and to larger systems, designing and facilitating workshops and events, helping groups of different sizes and makeup generate and assess data.

Camilla’s work includes: organisational consultancy, helping clients with organisational design, partnership management; organisational development and developing evaluation expertise; and evaluating public programmes and public sector bodies in sectors such as training and workforce development; employment; social inclusion, lifelong learning, children’s services and social care; libraries and culture.

Camilla focuses on local implementation and delivery of social policies. She also has extensive experience of the design and management of complex, large scale, time critical applied research for local, national and EU clients and has practical experience of working with statutory bodies, the voluntary sector and the commercial sector. Camilla also spent several years working with young people in residential and community settings.

Examples of current and recent assignments

• Consultancy to the senior management team in a children’s sector organisation around leadership and succession
• An organisational design and change consultancy to six District Councils in County Durham (with KPMG), developing more devolved and engaged local governance
• Consultancy to multi-agency teams to develop frameworks for self evaluation, with learning events
• Knowledge and practice review on contribution of social care to emergency care and planning, including practice case studies and the design and delivery of learning events
• Formative evaluation and developmental activities e.g.: assessing impact and effectiveness young person’s substance misuse service; People’s Network in libraries and supporting workforce development in the public library sector; national roll out of DH Healthy Start programme
• Design and facilitation of workshops supporting strategy development: LB Lewisham arts strategy; Leadership Centre for Local Government; IDeA