Tim Aldridge
Tim is the corporate director of children and young people for the London Borough of Newham. He is the lead director of children’s services for sector-led improvement for the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services (ALDCS). He chairs the North-East London Teaching Partnership and the North East London Commissioning Partnership. Prior to this, Tim was the director of children’s services for the London Borough of Havering where he led the team that took Havering on a journey from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘good’.
Tim is a qualified social worker and has been working in children’s social care for over twenty years, starting out as residential care worker. He is particularly interested in the role organisational culture plays in setting the right environment for good practice to evolve and thrive.
Meet the rest of my team
Camilla Cavendish
Camilla is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, and former head of the Downing Street Policy Unit under Prime Minister David Cameron.
Andy Elvin
Andy has been chief executive of TACT (The Adolescent and Children’s Trust) since September 2014.
Sukriti Sen
Sukriti qualified as a social worker in 1992. Her social work career has spanned across children in need, child protection, looked after children, fostering and adoption and quality assurance.
Oliver Gayle
Oliver is director of the UK legal team responsible for credit restructuring at Barclays Bank PLC.
Michael Clark
Michael is the deputy chief executive of Ark. He was previously a junior partner at McKinsey & Company and co-led its education practice in the UK.
Lord Adonis
Andrew has given ongoing support for Frontline since an early stage in 2010. Andrew formerly served as minister for schools and was a senior Number 10 adviser on education.
Jacob Rosenzweig
Jacob is a partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group, where he leads the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice for London, Amsterdam and Brussels.
Jeremy Newman
Jeremy is a chartered accountant and is involved with various organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Tim Aldridge
Tim is the corporate director of children and young people for the London Borough of Newham.
Sir John Timpson CBE
John is the chairman and owner of Timpson, a UK shoe repair chain with over 2000 shops. Timpson is recognised for its creative approach to employee engagement and innovative work helping ex-offenders.
Sue Macmillan
Sue is chief operating officer of Mumsnet, the UK’s most popular website for parenting advice, and has worked there since 2011.
Cordula Gwilym
Cordula is a Frontline fellow and a social care manager within children and family services.