Elaine Fulton
Elaine has over 30 years’ experience in leadership and governance in the public and charitable sectors – as a strategic leader and manager, grant-maker and commissioner. As a former Assistant Director in Local Authority Children’s Services, she balances strategic vison and ambition with a pragmatic approach rooted in accountability and delivery – across universal, targeted and more specialist services and key policy and infrastructure functions.
Elaine is passionate about innovation and collaboration, determined to work positively and creatively and empower others to find systemic, strategic solutions to intractable challenges and move towards our shared ambition of improved outcomes and transformed systems, lives and life chances, especially for the most disadvantaged children, families and communities. Her specialist knowledge relates to babies, children and families, resilience and adverse childhood experiences (and the impact of domestic abuse in particular) and place-based approaches.
As well as being the Director of the Common Outcomes for Children and Young People Collaborative, Elaine is an Associate of the Ideas Alliance and is working with others to develop policy and explore ways to define and capture their impact more effectively, focusing on what matters most for children, young people, families and communities.
Hannah Wilson
Over the last 12 years, Hannah has worked in social research and policy with a focus on children and young people, family support, violence reduction, children who are victims of domestic abuse and trauma-informed practice. She has worked on a wide variety of theory-based mixed-method and realist evaluations, systemic change initiatives, strategy and policy development and translation of evidence into practice for government departments, local authorities, third sector organisations and the European Commission.
She is committed to non- extractive research approaches, evaluation which is supports continuous and meaningful learning and work which takes a systemic approach to improving outcomes for babies, children and families.