Frontline

Who we are

Frontline is a children's charity working to ensure that all children in England have a safe and stable home, and that their life chances are not limited by their social or family circumstance. Our mission is to to make life better for children at risk of harm, by improving the services that support them.

Frontline’s vision is of a society where no child’s life chances are limited by their social or family circumstances. For the 700,000 children in England who are in or on the edge of care, this vision is too sadly far from their reality. That’s why Frontline has spent the last 11 years developing excellent practice, leadership and innovation in children’s social work.

In this time, we’ve recruited more than 3,600 new children’s social workers from diverse backgrounds, trained over 2,500 social work leaders and enabled and funded more than 30 innovations to protect children. We’ve also provided coaching to thousands of social workers and managers to improve their skill and ability to stay in social work. These efforts have contributed to meaningful progress in the sector, including an overall reduction in children entering care (excluding an increase in unaccompanied minors) and a significant increase in evidence-based practice methodologies across local authorities.  

We are looking for outstanding people from a diverse range of backgrounds to join our organisation, or one of our programmes, and contribute to our work to create lasting social change for children and families.

Our culture and values

To become an outstanding organisation, we need to both let go of control and expect much more of one another. When we manage this, we are surrounded by a team who can solve problems, speak with candour, communicate expectations, and give one another the space and support to achieve fantastic results for children.

This is what we call a culture of freedom and responsibility.

How do we make it happen? Freedom without responsibility results in chaos – confusion, frustration, a lack of accountability. Responsibility without freedom breeds a rigid focus on following rules and process, even when professional judgement and creativity would produce better results. It can result in people doing things right without doing the right thing.

Because of this, we need to have huge levels of both freedom and responsibility. The most important word is not freedom, nor responsibility, but and.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We believe that diversity makes for a stronger team. Our employees come from a range of backgrounds with varied expertise.

We are actively seeking to bring people with different lived experiences into the organisation, to create a workplace that is welcoming for all and diverse in age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, race, religious belief, sexual orientation, social background and any other forms of identity.