Frances Flaxington

Frances’ work for the Innovation Unit is focused on supporting councils and partners to replicate and scale approaches that support vulnerable children and young people. She has many years experience working across the criminal justice and children’s social care sectors, leading transformational change by working in partnership with others.

Frances is currently working with Lincolnshire Council, enabling them to develop new approaches to supporting vulnerable children and young people. She has recently assisted the Spring Consortium in planning the DfE’s National Learning Conference that reviewed findings from the Department for Educations Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.

Frances’ current portfolio includes Senior Associate roles with the Young Foundation and Mutual Ventures and she is a Trustee for the Criminal Justice Alliance and member of the National Crime Agency’s Independent Reference Group. Prior to these roles, Frances worked at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, focusing on protecting victims and offender rehabilitation, as well as Catch22, a social business delivering services to support vulnerable children and young people and that included implementing DfE funded innovation programmes. She also had oversight of the National Leaving Care Benchmarking supporting Councils to improve outcomes for care leavers.

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