Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive
Anthony Douglas has been Chief Executive of
Cafcass, the specialist national agency representing children and
families in family courts throughout England, since 2004. Cafcass
supports over 100,000 children in public and private law cases
every year. Prior to this he was Director of Social Services
in the London Borough of Havering, where he was also Director of
Housing, Leisure, Libraries and Neighbourhood Services, and in
Suffolk, where he was Director of Social Care and Health
Services. He was an economist and then a journalist prior to
becoming a social worker. He has written 3 books on UK social care
and is now writing a fourth on social care partnerships. He
has been a school governor, a non-executive director of the
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and a government adviser on specific
programmes. He is a Visiting Fellow of the University of East
Anglia and Chair of the British Association for Adoption and
Fostering (BAAF). Anthony has written four books on
social care, including one on partnership working to be
published in November 2008, and is now writing a fifth book on
resilience. He was awarded a CBE in 2008.
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