Advisory board

An Advisory Board has been appointed, chaired by David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships in the DH for the SSCR.

Members of the advisory board

  • David Behan (Chair)
    Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health
  • Lord Victor Adebowale
    Chief Executive, Turning Point
  • Dr Christine Barton
    Lay expert
  • Professor Paul Boyle
    Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
  • Andrew Cozens
    Strategic Advisor, Children, Adults and Health Services, Improvement and Development Agency
  • John Dixon
    Former president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
  • Martin Green
    Chief Executive, English Community Care Association
  • Conrad Hodgkinson
    Carer
  • Julie Jones
    Chief Executive, Social Care Institute for Excellence
  • Dr George Julian
    Director, Research in Practice for Adults
  • Professor Janet Newman
    Professor of Social Policy, Open University
  • Jenny Owen
    Immediate Past President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
  • Dame Denise Platt
    Chair of the Department of Communities and Local Government Awards and Knowledge Transfer Scheme
  • Imelda Redmond
    Chief Executive, Carers UK
  • James Richardson
    Chief Micro-economist, Her Majesty's Treasury
  • Liz Sayce
    Director, RADAR
  • Professor Ian Shaw
    Professor of Social Work, University of York
  • Emma Stone
    Deputy Director of Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Professor Alan Walker
    Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield
  • Paul Wiles
    Government Social Research

In attendance

  • Professor Martin Knapp
    Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research
  • Dr Carol Lupton
    RDD Social Care Lead, Department of Health
  • Clare Croft-White
    NIHR SSCR Project Manager, Department of Health