Senior management

Corporate Director Children’s Services

Sarah Ashmead

Salary: £190,000 to £194,999

Email: [email protected]

Responsible for:

  • Children’s Social Care
  • Education & Inclusion
  • Quality, Strategy & Performance
  • Transformation & Improvement
  • Placements for Looked After Children & Care Leavers

Direct reports

Service Director Children’s Social Care

  • Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
  • Looked After Children
  • Leaving Care
  • Children with Disabilities
  • Locality Support & Safeguarding
  • UASC
  • Corporate Parenting ( Adoption & Fostering)
  • Family Time (Supervised Contact)

Service Director Education & Inclusion

  • Early Years
  • SEND
  • School Place Planning
  • School Admissions
  • School Improvement
  • Virtual School
  • Adult Learning
  • Family Hub Network

Service Director Children’s Transformation and Improvement

The planning and implementation of Buckinghamshire’s response to the significant reforms outlined in the Children’s Schools & Wellbeing Bill and the Families First Programme.

Service Director Provider Services

  • Children’s Homes
  • Fostering
  • Adoption - including link with Reginal Adoption Agency

Assistant Director SEND Improvement

  • SEND Performance & Improvement
  • Youth Justice & Support Team

Assistant Director Strategy and Performance

  • Children’s Services strategy, governance, assurance and risk
  • Regulatory Inspection Readiness
  • Quality Assurance and Standards
  • Workforce Development
  • LADO
  • Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
  • Child Protection Conferencing
  • Independent Reviewing Officers