Board of Trustees
Details of the current members of
the Board of Trustees are below:
Dr Sarah Davidson MBE
Sarah is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in a nationwide,
specialist children and young people’s service at the Tavistock
& Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is the Deputy Clinical
Director on the Professional Clinical Psychology Doctorial
Programme, and Programme Leader of the MSc in International
Humanitarian Psychosocial Consultation at the University of East
London. She is the Psychosocial Advisor for the British Red Cross,
and was previously the Vice Chair of the British Red Cross Board of
Trustees. She is also Trustee on the Board of Interhealth
Dewi Hughes
Dewi has twelve years' experience as an educational psychologist
including several years representing colleagues on the National
Executive Committee of the Association of Educational
Psychologists, which involves serving on the Professional Policies
Committee. Through this work he has access to peer reviews of
educational and psychological research on child and adolescent
development. He brings a psychological perspective to the work of
the Board and to the issues which NCB is currently working
with.
Chris Born
Currently at North Somerset Primary Care Trust, Chris has worked
for the NHS as chief executive for 19 years. This involved heading
a mental health NHS trust, including services for children and
young people and running two Primary Care Trusts in Bristol and
North Somerset. Chris was a founder member of the local Children's
Trust arrangements in Bristol and then chair of the Children and
Families partnership (previously the Children’s trust) in North
Somerset. He has also worked for MIND, the mental health voluntary
organisation, for the Department of Health and for local government
as a social worker and social care manager. His main interests are
in developing integrated, community-based services, closer to
people’s homes and reducing reliance on acute hospitals and out of
area placements for patient care.
David Rimington, Treasurer
David is married with two adult children. He has worked as an
accountant in the commercial sector for most of his career. He has
served as a trustee for Together Working for Well-being, a mental
health services charity of a similar size to NCB, and was formerly
a trustee of its pension fund. He has also undertaken work for the
homelessness charity Shelter and is involved with young people as
secretary of his local canoe club.
Peter Phippen
Peter is Managing Director of BBC Magazines. He is a Director of
BBC Worldwide, one of the UK’s fastest growing commercial media
companies. He is also Chairman of joint venture media businesses in
Australia and India. Previously, Peter was President and Chief
Executive Officer of BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. based in NYC,
where he was responsible for expanding the company’s range of
products in the U.S., including TV sales and a number of TV
channels. Peter is married to a Speech and Language Therapist, has
four children (three of them still in full-time education), and
lives in Buckinghamshire. His interests include playing jazz piano,
competing in triathlons, history and the countryside.
Dame Gillian Pugh, Chair
Dame Gillian Pugh retired in 2005 as Chief Executive of Coram
Family, a leading children’s charity which aims to develop and
promote best practice in the care and support of very vulnerable
children and their families. She has published widely, including
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling
Hospital (2008) and Contemporary Issues in the Early Years (5th
edition 2009). Gillian chaired the Advisory Committee for the
Cambridge Primary Review and is a co-author of the final report
Children, their World, their Education (Routledge 2009). In
addition to chairing the National Children’s Bureau, Gillian is
President of the National Childminding Association, and a vice
President of Early Education. Gillian is on the panel of the Family
Justice Review, is a member of the Children’s Workforce Development
Council, is on the Board of the Training and Development Agency for
Schools, and is visiting Professor at the Institute of Education,
She has advised governments in this country and overseas on
policies for children and families, and was an advisor to the House
of Commons Select Committee for children, schools and families. She
was awarded the DBE in 2005 for services to children and
families.
Jane Held, Vice Chair
Jane Held took retirement from local government service in April
2004 and is now running her own consultancy company. Her background
is in children’s social work and she began her career working in
children’s homes. She was Director of Social Services in Camden
before retiring and previously Director in Southend on Sea. She was
also co-chair of the Children and Families Committee of the
Association of Directors of Social Services for three years. She
has worked with a range of national bodies in the last three years,
has published a range of reports and reviews and is on the Board on
the Children’s Workforce Development Council, and a Trustee for
Family Action and for the Fostering Network. She is currently the
Independent Chair of the Suffolk Permanence Panel and also the
Independent Chair of the Leeds Safeguarding Board as well as an
Associate for the LGID Safeguarding Programme. She has 32 years’
experience in social care and has a national reputation and profile
as a child care expert.
Hugh McLaughlin
Hugh is a registered social worker and is currently Professor of
Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. Before moving
into academia, he was an assistant director of a local authority's
child and family services. His current research and publications
include the meaningful involvement of young service users in
evaluating/researching social care provision, developing a research
informed social work practice and the development of learning
organisations. Hugh is also chair of the trustee board for After
Adoption, a member of the advisory group for Involve (NIHR) and a
member of SCIE’s Partner Council. He offers a broad perspective in
terms of social policy, practice and research to contribute to the
achievement of the aims of the NCB.
Mike Greig FCMA, MA, MSc
Mike recently took early retirement following a career as Chief
Financial Officer of public technology businesses, including most
recently 20 years with RM Education plc, to allow him to pursue
other interests. He is currently a non-executive director of
Aberforth Geared Income Trust, a listed Investment Trust, a trustee
of 4 other charities and a pension scheme. He and his wife are
foster carers and in particular therapeutic foster carers for
children with disrupted backgrounds and challenging behaviours.
This work led them to help establish a charity to support
vulnerable families and help teach them to be successful parents.
They are also involved in pastoral care in their local church.
Cecile Wright
Cecile is Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University,
researching issues of education, social justice with particular
reference to ‘race’, social class and ethnicity. She is the author
of over 100 publications including books, reports and journals. Her
recent publication is ‘Black Youth Matters’: From School to Success
(2010) (with Standen and Patel), pub Routledge. She has been a
member of various Government Advisory Groups, focusing on issues of
education.
Kate Thompson
Kate is Director of Children’s Services at South Eastern Trust,
Belfast. She was appointed to NCB’s Board of Trustees in November
2008.
Young Board representatives
There are two
young Board members, appointed by Young NCB. The roles are
filled on a rotational basis from a pool of six young
representatives who also fill the four young places on NCB's
Membership Forum.
Company Secretary: Lynne Stackhouse
email: lstackhouse@ncb.org.uk
Phone: 020 7843 6011
Honorary officers
There are three honorary officers, elected by the full
membership:
Dame Gillian Pugh, Chair
Dame Gillian Pugh retired in 2005 as Chief Executive of Coram
Family, a leading children’s charity which aims to develop and
promote best practice in the care and support of very vulnerable
children and their families. She has published widely,
including London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the
Foundling Hospital (2008) and Contemporary Issues in the
Early Years (5th edition
2009). Gillian chaired the Advisory Committee
for the Cambridge Primary Review and is a co-author of the final
report Children, their World, their Education (Routledge
2009). She is chair of the National Children’s Bureau,
President of the National Childminding Association, and a vice
President of Early Education. Gillian is on the panel of the
Family Justice Review, is a member of the Children’s Workforce
Development Council, is on the Board of the Training and
Development Agency for Schools, and is visiting Professor at the
Institute of Education, She has advised governments in this
country and overseas on policies for children and families, and was
an advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee for children,
schools and families. She was awarded the DBE in 2005 for services
to children and families.
Jane Held, Vice Chair
Jane Held took
retirement from local government service in April 2004 and is now
running her own consultancy company. She was Director of
Social Services in Camden before retiring and previously Director
in Southend on Sea. She was also co-chair of the Children and
Families Committee of the Association of Directors of Social
Services for three years. She served on the NSF CAMHS External
Working Group. She was a founding member of the Inter-Agency
Group (IAG). During that period she was co-author of Serving
Children Well, the discussion paper that stimulated Every Child
Matters, and was responsible for negotiations on ECM with DCSF in
her ADSS role. She has 28 years’ experience in social care and
has a national reputation and profile as a child care expert.
David Rimington, Treasurer
David is
married with two adult children. He has worked as an
accountant in the commercial sector for most of his career. He has
served as a trustee for Together Working for Well-being, a mental
health services charity of a similar size to NCB, and was
formerly a trustee of its pension fund. He has also undertaken
work for the homelessness charity Shelter and is involved with
young people as secretary of his local canoe club.