Consultancy

Consultancy is only useful if it's relevant, informed and realistic.

Our aim as consultants is to enable social care organisations, both statutory and independent, to achieve more and better than they could without our help.

We provide consultancy that is:

• Genuinely tailored to our clients' needs
• Grounded in practical experience and empirical research
• Focused on practical answers and solutions
• Delivered by experienced professionals who are committed to giving their best

Cordis Bright's consultancy serves four sets of inter-related needs: understanding the external environment; internal operational support; performance improvement and value for money, and help with strategy and planning.

The kinds of consultancy we do

Cordis Bright's advises on a wide range of questions, from trouble shooting specific problems with individual services through to broad strategic and organisational issues.

A typical consultancy project might include helping our clients with:

• Working towards broad, long-term goals, such as a modernisation agenda, managing the tensions between cost-savings, quality and individualisation of services
• Identifying and working with partners, particularly working across statutory/non-statutory boundaries, and partnerships with Health
• Developing business plans and strategy documents
• Analysing the effectiveness of existing services and working on improvements
• Analysing the market for a particular service or group of services and developing a market response
• Better understanding their service users and communities
• Looking at an individual organisation's operational effectiveness and developing practical improvements
• Improving the effectiveness of staff teams, managers, boards, cabinets and members

What makes our consultancy special

Cordis Bright brings clients a perspective they cannot have internally. We have the knowledge, experience base and approach that allow us to interpret things differently, and show you a different way forward.

We are proud of the consultancy work we do. It is grounded in quality research, robust technical skills and a deep knowledge and understanding of the sectors we work in. It is also delivered in a way that makes sense to our clients, focused on what they really need to know, not on theoretical analysis or our own agenda.

One of the characteristics that makes us different from other consultants is our willingness to engage with our clients on an informal, 'real-time' basis.

We do of course we provide formal consultancy services. But we also encourage our clients to pick up the phone and ask our views there and then.

Sometimes, clients need a ten minute chat with someone knowledgeable, experienced and approachable - not an in-depth consultancy report. We are happy to work with you in this way.

What makes Cordis Bright special

For more on the kinds of consultancy we offer see:

What we do in children's services

What we do in adult services

What we do for the independent sector

For more on operational support and research see:

Evaluations

Inspection support

Performance improvement and turnaround

Inclusion, involvement and consultation

Research

Who our consultancy is for

Cordis Bright's consultancy clients come from across the social care arena. We work with the statutory and independent sectors, and with providers of children's and adult services.

We work with organisations large and small, from government departments to small providers of specialised services.

The areas we cover