Our Journey

We are determined that Newham be a place where every child and young person enjoys the best possible opportunities in life – through outstanding education; first-rate youth services; exceptional family support, and social care services that ensure no child is left behind.

Led by our ambitious senior leadership team, and supported by Newham’s Mayor and Cabinet, we are making great strides on our journey to “outstanding”.

We know that transformation doesn’t happen overnight. That’s why we remain committed to investing in the service structure, training, and practice programme that will ensure we deliver for children and give our staff the skills, support and confidence to be agents of change and deliver exceptional social work and better outcomes for children.

We welcome regular monitoring visits from Oftsed, who have recognised our improvement journey and continue to encourage the further improvement that we are committed to. You can read Ofsted’s most recent feedback on our progress here.

We want all children in Newham to:

  • Grow up happy, healthy and safe
  • Flourish in our schools
  • Benefit from employment, skills and training opportunities
  • Play an active role in the community

We want Newham to be a Centre of Excellence in Children’s Social Care by 2023 – nationally recognised as an example of best practice; working imaginatively to continue to grow, adapt, innovate and improve; forging relationships with academic institutions across the UK; partnering with local schools, colleges and organisations; continuing to invest in workforce development and quality assurance, and ensuring that we continue to learn from families and children – and embed their feedback in our ongoing practice improvement.

We recognise that good social workers need the right environment to grow into great social workers. We welcome different skillsets and are committed to offering the resources, development, training, accreditation and professional challenge to allow you to flourish and deliver better outcomes for children.

The Key Themes in our development are

  • Leadership, vision and culture
  • Model of practice
  • The fundamentals
  • Corporate parenting
  • Partnerships
  • Learning and Transparency
  • Workforce

For an in-depth understanding of what this looks like for the practitioner, please go to our Training page.