Welcome to Children’s Social Work in Wigan!
My name is Colette Dutton, and I am the Director of Children’s Services. I joined Wigan Council in July 2020, and I continue to be blown away with the culture of kindness across the Council - it feels different here and I feel incredibly lucky to work alongside such amazing people! It’s a place where staff say they can do outstanding social work because of the support surrounding them.
Over the last few years, in recognition that our social workers want to spend time with children and families and work with them meaningfully, we have doubled our social work workforce! We have also really invested in our staff by providing an excellent learning and development offer. We want all of the children in our borough to achieve the best possible outcomes, and we recognise the importance of providing our staff with an environment where good social work practice can flourish. I am lucky to have such a stable senior leadership team, a stable management team and a stable workforce. As the DCS, I love hearing messages from our staff about how much they love to work in Wigan (I do too!).
We want you to develop your career in Wigan, and our commitment is that we will support you to do this.