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Anthony Douglas CBE, 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 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, which was published in November
2008, and is now writing a fifth book on resilience. He was
awarded a CBE in 2008.
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Christine Banim, Operational Director and Chair of
Modernisation and Efficiency Board
Christine joined Cafcass in November 2008 as Operational
Director for the central area, and brings with her a wealth of
experience in children’s services. Christine previously worked as
Assistant Director in Lincolnshire and, over the past 15 years, has
worked in a number of local authorities at a senior manager level.
Before taking on managerial roles she worked in a specialist child
protection unit for nine years and is very experienced in court
work.
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Jane Booth, Deputy Chief Executive
Jane came to Cafcass from the
Social Services Inspectorate. Prior to her position at the SSI she
undertook the role of Assistant Director of Children’s Services in
Kirklees. Originally from a Probation Service background she
started her Social Services career in 1970 and has served on the
Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds Panel of Guardian ad Litem as a
Guardian from 1985 to 1986 and as Panel Manager in 1998.
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Julie Brown, Director of Finance
Julie joined Cafcass in 2008 having worked in both Adults and
Children’s Social Care for a number of years. Prior to that she
worked in the Probation Service before its national reorganisation.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in the early 1990’s she
worked for a number of years in both practice and industry until
2001 when she switched to, and then stayed, working with the public
sector.
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Bruce Clark, Director of Policy
Bruce joined Cafcass in 2008 on a one year secondment from the
DCFS, and in April he became Director of Policy for Cafcass. Bruce
has 30 years’ experience in social work, having started his career
as a volunteer worker in the Probation Service. He later worked for
three local authorities as a social worker and then a social work
manager and was a panel manager in Surrey. During the 12 years that
he spent at the NSPCC, one of his roles was to set up the child
protection helpline, which received over 170,000 calls per year. In
1999 he made the move over to central government, first at the
Department of Health and then the DfES (later, DCSF). He wrote
Working Together to Safeguard Children, which set out how
individuals and organisations should work together to safeguard and
promote the welfare of children.
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Vince Clark, Operational Director
Vince Clark has taken up post as the Cafcass Operational
Director for the South of England. He was previously the Assistant
Director, Children’s Services Commissioning, at Torbay Council.
Vince has extensive experience of working for local authorities in
London and the South West. Working with children and families and
the services they receive has been a vital part of all of Vince’s
jobs.
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Charlotte McCafferty, Director of Legal Services
Charlotte has worked with Cafcass since
December 2003. She qualified as a solicitor in 1988 and since
then has worked in a variety of legal settings, including the
public sector, voluntary sector and private practice. She
trained in the pre-Children Act days of wardship and has continued
to specialise in children law since then. She has published
many legal articles on family law and human rights and her
background includes work in education law, employment law and
corporate law. She leads the team of lawyers at Cafcass Legal
and and acts as adviser to the Board and Chief Executive.
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Jabbar Sardar, Director of Human Resources and
Organisational Development
Jabbar joined Cafcass in October 2006 as the
Head of Human Resources responsible for the HR and Health &
Wellbeing functions. In October 2009, Jabbar became the
Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development.
Prior to joining Cafcass, Jabbar worked as a Senior HR Manager with
Education Leeds where he was responsible for delivering a HR
service to 300 schools, 18,000 school-based staff and managing a
team of HR professionals. Prior to leaving Education Leeds,
he was the interim Head of Human Resources responsible for a budget
of over £10 million and a staffing compliment of 100 staff.
Jabbar has also worked as a HR professional with Leeds City Council
and the University of Bradford.
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Darren Scates, Director of Business Transformation and
Technology
Darren joined us from Her Majesty’s Courts Service in October
2008 where he was IT Director. He has over 15 years of experience
in the justice system, working with judges, policy makers and
government ministers advising on the use of technology. He has a
wide range of hands-on technology delivery experience and was an
operational manager before moving into IT over 12 years ago.
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Darren Shaw, Operational Director
Darren joined Cafcass as interim Head of
Service for S1 in July 2008 and has now been appointed as
Operational Director for the North. He has
extensive experience working in children’s services across
England, covering much of the country and vast range of roles
within children’s services. Before Cafcass he was Head of
Children's Social Care Services in Gloucestershire and was later
promoted to Director of Services for Children and Young People
which included all child-focused education services such as
Education Welfare, Education Psychology and Special Educational
Needs.
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