Sara Tough

  • Valuing Care – supporting children to achieve their full potential

    29 March 2023

    Executive Director of Children’s Services at Norfolk County Council Sara Tough discusses a partnership between Norfolk CC and IMPOWER with children and young people at its heart.


  • Help – when and where it’s needed

    29 September 2021

    Norfolk CC has successfully shifted the emphasis in children's services from crisis to prevention, including remodelling its corporate parenting service for children in care and beyond. It's just the start, as Sara Tough explains.


  • Giving frontline staff in Norfolk the time to make a difference

    26 June 2019

    Sara Tough explains how Norfolk CC is transforming services by investing £15m in new projects to help build resilience in families and give staff more time to work with children and parents.


  • Refocusing on the right interventions

    06 March 2019

    National policy has moved towards the importance of integrated, targeted responses – and Norfolk has developed its new Early Childhood and Family Service with this in mind, says Sara Tough