Nathan Whitley (MA DipSw BSc Hons) is a qualified social worker and commissioner with over 25 years’ experience in children’s social care.
Starting as a waking night in residential children’s homes, he has worked in many roles within social care, particularly with children in care. He has held leadership roles within corporate parenting, provider services and children’s commissioning in many local authorities, as well as consultancy, commissioning, and transformation roles within over 20 local authorities and regional collaborations.
Nathan has also led national independent fostering organisations and adoption agencies and has been the director for a group of children’s homes.
Founded by Nathan Whitley in 2010, sufficiency.org.uk is the non-commercial side of Better Sufficiency Ltd.
The organisation is dedicated to improving placement sufficiency locally, regionally, and nationally by better using data to inform areas of improvement and performance.