Our Senior Leadership Team!
Here is a little more information about the Children's Services Leadership Team!
Joe Tynan
Joe is our Interim Executive Director. This means that he oversees all of the work Children's Services do and makes sure it is up to the high standards that Middlesbrough Children deserve!
Dawn Alaszewski
Dawn is the Interim Director of Social Care, and makes sure that all children in care and care leavers have what they need. She makes sure that children and young people receive the best care!
Rob Brown
Rob is in charge of everything to do with education and partnerships. This means that he makes sure we are working well with schools and giving the best education opportunities to all of our children.
Middlesbrough Council Children and Families Agenda
Here's a video explaining our journey towards developing a Systems Leadership Approach. The video explains the jewels of our improvement in 16 steps. It explains our One Children's Services vision, and how we all support, listen, and learn from each other to provide the best service for our Middlesbrough children and their families.
See the video here!
Our Mission
We asked 163 members of staff three key questions. Their answer were synthesised creating a personality and tone of voice that guided the mission, purpose and values of Middlesbrough Children Matter.
ExploreWhat values should underpin our work to show Middlesbrough Children Matter?
From this we understood how to behave and act, these combined with our corporate values became the values and behaviours of Middlesbrough Children Matter.
How will we show Middlesbrough Children that they Matter in the Future?
From this we understood what we wanted to see in the future and this became our ‘vision’.
Why is showing Middlesbrough Children that they Matter important to you?
From this we discovered the ‘reason we existed’ and these became our ‘purpose statements’.
Our mission is to show Middlesbrough Children they Matter
We spent 3 months researching how to apply the vision asking one simple question: How can we communicate to children that they matter? This research informed how we embedded the Middlesbrough Children Matter campaign into children’s services and how we would to work to do this.
Our Priorities
Place
Making Middlesbrough a place that children are proud to live in.
Work
Providing services that are fit for children who will grow to serve Middlesbrough.
Community
Making Middlesbrough a community that children are proud of.
Family and Relationships
We value childhood and dedicate time to create and promote experiences that enable children to have the childhood all children deserve.
People
We strive to develop our workforce who visit and build relationships with children and families because they want to, not just because they have to.
Wellbeing
We will work to increase the quality of life for children and families in Middlesbrough by ensuring they have access to the health and wellbeing services they need.
Culture and Society
We believe we can redefine the narrative of Middlesbrough and communicate a positive perception of our town on a national basis.
Communication and Connectivity
We will create an environment where children can express themselves and communicate with us.
Learn and Achieve
We want to improve the access to education, employment and training opportunities for young people so they can achieve their academic and vocational potential.
Future
We know that children are the future of Middlesbrough and champion an ethos that is proactive about their development.
Where it all started
The logo of Middlesbrough Children Matter started with young people, we worked with five youth forums to develop 16 initial concepts for the logo and these went through three rounds of revisions until we only had two logos remaining.
The final logos were sent out to a staff vote (which received 293 votes) and decided the winning logo that represents Middlesbrough Children Matter.
Who we worked with
Social Workers
Senior Leadership
Education Professionals
Edge of Care
Young people's advisory group
We asked young people from this group the same question but a little differently: How can we communicate to you that you matter to us? The feedback was powerful and moving. We listened and asked our children and young people to make some really important decisions in our Middlesbrough Children Matter Campaign, including feel and colour scheme.
