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Skills for Care Board


Skills for Care is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. The Skills for Care board is set up to represent the major employment interests, service users and carers and union and professional associations in social care.


INDEPENDENT CHAIR

Professor David Croisdale-Appleby OBE

PRIVATE SECTOR

National Care Association (NCA) - Nadra Ahmed OBE DL 

Registered Nursing Homes Association (RNHA) - Frank Ursell

UK Home Care Association (UKHCA) - John Strangwick

VOLUNTARY SECTOR

Association for Real Change (ARC) - Vacancy

Social Care Employers Consortium - Vacancy

STATUTORY SECTOR

Local Government Association (LGA) - Gareth Barnard

NHS Employers' Organisation - Vacancy

PROFESSIONAL BODIES AND STAFF REPRESENTATIVES

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) - Brian Walsh

British Association of Social Workers (BASW) - Bridget Robb

Learn to Care - Trevor Hewitt 

Trades Union Congress - Rev John Boggan 

PEOPLE WHO USE SERVICES


Simon Stevens

Nina Osborne


CARERS

Carers UK - Rosemary Whitehurst

Education

HIGHER EDUCATION:

Joint Universities Council/Social Work Education Committee - Professor David Stanley

FURTHER EDUCATION:

Association of Care Training and Assessment Networks - Judith Salmon


THE CHAIRS OF THE 9 AREA COMMITTEES ALSO SIT ON THE BOARD:

Yorkshire & Humberside - Peter Hodkinson with co-chair Iain Baines (who is not a trustee/director)

North West - Stephen Sloss

East Midlands - Anita Astle

West Midlands - Helen Wilcox (Vice Chair of the board)

South East - Frances Mills

London - vacant

North East - Margaret Whellans

South West - Gary Kent

Eastern - Jo Hough with co-chair Julie Edwards (who is not a trustee/director)


All board members are directors of the company and trustees of the charity.


Staff


The Chief Executive Officer is Sharon Allen

The Company Secretary is David Towns


Skills for Care board members

 

Board meetings

For information on the board meetings click here

 

Updated - 23 January 2012