London / South East areas

Skills for Care has a network of area teams to support employers across England who can signpost to information, resources and tools to support workforce development.

Skills for Care sends out an enews bulletin every two weeks, if you would like to be added to the distribution list please visit the enews section or email marketing@skillsforcare.org.uk

Meetings and events

This section contains details of upcoming meetings and events in the area as well as minutes and presentations from past sessions.

Current events
Past events

Social Work in the London / South East area

Skills for Care is supporting the work of the Social Work Reform Board and is involved in many of the initiatives affecting social work education in the London and South East area.

Social Work in the London / South East area

Publications archive

To view all publications from the London and South East areas, please click on the link below.

Area publications archive

Your local area contacts 

London and South East office reception - 020 7383 8910

Carl Biddle - Area Manager (London and the South East)
Tel 01323 460 821, Mob 07989 355 886
Email carl.biddle@skillsforcare.org.uk

Rita Daly - Senior Area Officer (London and the South East)
Tel 01202 420 220, Mob 07891 821 144
Email rita.daly@skillsforcare.org.uk

Ali Rusbridge - Area Officer - North East London (Barking & Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest)
Tel 020 7702 7787, Mob 07779 352 199
Email ali.rusbridge@skillsforcare.org.uk

Laura Anthony - Area Officer - South West London (Croydon, Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Richmond, Sutton, Wandsworth)
Tel 01273 321 372, Mob 07890514106
Email laura.anthony@skillsforcare.org.uk

John Clegg - Area Officer - North Central London (Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington)
Tel 0208 858 1671, Mob 07791 594 718
Email john.clegg@skillsforcare.org.uk

Pippa Doran - Area Officer - South East London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark)
Tel 07792 907 592
Email pippa.doran@skillsforcare.org.uk

Donna Bunce - Area Officer - North West London (Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster)
Tel 07825 318 616
Email donna.bunce@skillsforcare.org.uk  

Karen Morse - Area Officer - Kent and Medway
Tel 020 8850 7958, Mob 0777 044 1879
Email karen.morse@skillsforcare.org.uk

Karen Stevens - Area Officer - Sussex (Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex)
Tel 01903 752 280, Mob 07969 749 451
Email karen.stevens@skillsforcare.org.uk

Rachel Reid - Area Officer - Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham)
Tel 0118 931 646, Mob 07770 507 812
Email rachel.reid@skillsforcare.org.uk

Lynda Jones - Area Officer - Hampshire & Isle of Wight (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton)
Tel 02392 389 322, Mob 07836 595 463
Email lynda.jones@skillsforcare.org.uk

Marianne Davis - Area Officer - Surrey
Tel 0118 9662 537, Mob 07779 352 039
Email marianne.davis@skillsforcare.org.uk