Rachael Wardell took up the role of corporate director for communities at West Berkshire Council in 2013. "There are days when I come home and I feel absolutely exhausted, like a hung out rag, and wonder whether I'm doing any good in the world at all," she says.
Looking at her wide portfolio, it is little wonder she feels like this. As well as being the council's director of children's services (DCS), she is also its director of adult social services (DASS) and leads housing services.
On top of her day-to-day responsibilities, she is overseeing efforts to improve children's services after they were rated "inadequate" by Ofsted in May and her bulging in-tray also includes a judicial review against the government around its adult social care funding.
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