ACEVo Spring Conference
A Joined up future for community health and social care?
Speakers Biographies
Welcome from Morning Chair Person
 Dr Peter Kyle
Deputy Chief Executive
ACEVO
Peter joined ACEVO in 2007. Peter has been a trustee of two charities, and is a seasoned third sector and political campaigner.
For ten years Peter was an aid worker for a relief organisation founded by Anita Roddick, working on projects across Central Europe and the Balkans throughout the 1990’s. After completing his PhD on community economic development, he co-founded a highly successful video production company, before going on to become a Special Adviser to the Blair government, working for the Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP. Based in the Cabinet Office he worked on a wide policy agenda that included Social Exclusion and the Third Sector, in addition to political support at cabinet level.
Welcome from Host and Sponsor
 Hugh Biddell
Head of Charities and Public Sector
Royal Bank of Scotland
Hugh runs a relationship team looking after large charities, Local authorities, NHS and foundation trusts and government bodies. In addition, he has responsibility for graduate trainees in Corporate Banking, encouraging volunteering across the Corporate Bank and is a member of the RBS Group Community Development Banking Steering Committee, Corporate Responsibility Forum and Financial Inclusion Group.
Previous roles have included establishing and growing the Bank's UK market leading businesses in private healthcare, professional practices and education. Hugh is a trustee of homelessness charity Crisis.
Keynote Speech: Transforming Social Care Services
Slide Presentation
 David Behan CBE
Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships
Department of Health
David Behan is the Department of Health's Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships. he joined the Department in September 2006. Before joining the Department, David was the first Chief Inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection. From 1996 to 2003 he was Director of Social Services, London Borough of Greenwich and a member of the Greenwich Primary Care Trust Board and the Professional Executive Committee. Throughout 2003 he was the President of the Association of Directors of Social Services.
Between 1989 and 1996 David was Director of Social Services with Cleveland County Council, having been Senior Assistant Director and Deputy Director there. Following Local Government reorganisation, he held the position of Director of Social Services for Middlesbrough Council.
Between 1984 and 1989 David was employed by Avon County Council in a variety of head office posts and as an area manager in North Bristol. From 1978 to 1984 David was employed by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Social Services Department, working initially as a social worker and then as a team manager in Children's Services.
David was born and brought up in Blackburn in Lancashire and graduated from Bradford University in 1978. He was awarded a CBE in 2003, and in 2004 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law by Greenwich University.
Total Place Pilots: Joining Up Services at Local Level
Slide Presentation
 Irene Lucas CBE
Director General
Department of Communities and Local Government
Irene joined the Department in September 2009. Her remit covers Local Government finance, policy and performance, and regeneration (including implementation of the sub-national review).
Prior to joining the Department, Irene worked as Chief Executive of South Tyneside Council from 2002. She has had a long and successful career in local government, spanning 34 years and a variety of local authorities. She is renowned for her passion for the improvement agenda in localities and working in partnership with others.
Irene has held a number of public appointments including at the BBC and the Sports Council of England and has worked with the FA, Premier League, Department of Culture Media and Sport, and Sport England to redistribute television rights funding to grass roots soccer across the UK. She was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Years Honours List.
Third Sector Delivery at Local and National Levels
Slide Presentation
 Ian Charlesworth
Commercial Director
The Social Investment Business
Since January 2009, Ian has been Commercial Director of The Social Investment Business. His role is to grow the business of The Social Investment Business and to grow third sector delivery of public services.
Prior to joining The Social Investment Business, Ian was Chief Executive of Shaw Trust for 11 years, the leading not-for-profit provider of employment services for disabled people. He was responsible for growing Shaw Trust from £22m to over £100m as well as substantially increasing their surpluses.
Until 1997, when Ian joined Shaw Trust, he spent 15 years as a chief officer in local government as Director of Employment Projects at Rochdale MDC before managing the Direct Labour Organisation for both Rochdale and Bradford councils.
The Role of the Third Sector and Community Engagement in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Process
Slide Presentation
 Fiona White
JSNA Development Programme (Third Sector & Communities Engagement)
Department of Health
Fiona has recently joined the Department of Health JSNA Development Programme on a short-term consultancy, to lead a work stream to embed third sector partnerships and communities engagement in Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.
Fiona began her career in the Third Sector and has since spent more than 25 years working in Local Government and the NHS across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. With a background in social services, she led some of the early work to integrate health and social services and worked on secondment as Depute Director (Consultant) in the largest of Northern Ireland’s integrated Health and Social Services Boards. She holds a postgraduate Masters degree in the Management and Leadership of Health and Care from the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds.
Most recently Fiona worked in Portsmouth City Council as Head of Democratic & Community Engagement and saw the authority recognised nationally for community empowerment and partnership working with the Third Sector as an Empowerment Champion (CLG), Building Public Services Pathfinder (HM Treasury & OTS) and Asset Transfer demonstrator site.
Fiona is passionate about giving local people a voice and the role the Third Sector can play in delivering outstanding, innovative, value-driven and cost effective public services.
Putting Practice into Policy: Gathering Information from Your Services to Inform Your Policy
Slide Presentation
 Margaret Bolton
Consultant
Margaret Bolton is an independent consultant who specialises in voluntary sector policy. Before going freelance she was Director of Policy and Research at NCVO. She was seconded from this post to work in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. Since becoming a consultant in 2002 she has undertaken policy and research projects and produced reports on a range of topics including: voluntary sector added value; social innovation; social investment and capacity building. She is a member of the Capacitybuilders board.
Joined up Regulation of HSC Services: Registration, Compliance and Enforcement
Slide Presentation
 Neil Grant
Partner
Bevan Brittan LLP
Neil Grant has a national reputation as a regulatory lawyer in the field of health and social care. Neil's particular area of expertise is the state regulation of providers registered under the Care Standards Act 2000, the Childcare Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Clients include the national regulators and major providers. He is an experienced advocate, as well as a recognised trainer and commentator within the sector.
A Platform for Personalisation: Tackling Transition with Technology
 Tom Latchford
Chief Executive
Raising IT
Tom Latchford is CEO of Raising IT, which is creating a technology platform to manage personalisation. Raising IT builds websites and online tools for charities to power marketing, fundraising and member management (service users, supporters and staff). Raising IT is working with organisations such as UNICEF, Dyslexia Action and Children with Leukaemia to decrease costs, raise funds and increase efficiency.
Tom was previously an E-Media Consultant at charity consultancy Action Planning, and since starting Raising IT has won a number of awards for its success including WorldSkills Entrepreneur of the Year 2009.
Welcome Back from Afternoon Chairperson
 Lesley-Anne Alexander
Chief Executive
RNIB
and Chair of ACEVO
Lesley-Anne was appointed CEO at RNIB in January 2004. Lesley-Anne has worked in the public and voluntary sectors. Before joining RNIB she was Director of Operations for the Peabody Trust, one of the UK’s largest housing associations and regeneration agencies.
Before this she held posts in local government including Director of Housing for the London Borough of Enfield. Lesley-Anne has been a Board member of the British Judo Association and the Waltham Forrest Community Housing Association and is currently Chair of ACEVO and the UK Vision Strategy Group.
Cross Sector Collaboration: Leadership in Tough Economic Times
Slide Presentation
 Alison Ryan MA (Oxon) MCMI
Chief Executive Officer
Weldmar Hospicecare Trust
and Non Executive Director of NHS Southwest
Alison obtained an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management. She initially worked in the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority but since1985 has held a number of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) roles within voluntary sector health and social care agencies, most recently as head of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers.
She has been a non Executive Director of Somerset Partnership NHS Mental Health Trust and is a Non Executive Director of NHS Southwest. She has been CEO of Weldmar Hospicecare Trust since 2004.
Cross Sector Collaboration: Leadership in Tough Economic Times
Slide Presentation
 Eleanor Cappell
Social Entrepreneur in Residence (SEiR)
Birmingham NHS and the Young Foundation
She is responsible for sourcing a number of sustainable innovatory ventures that meet the health and social care needs of residents in the North and East of Birmingham. Ventures must have the potential for large social impact and offer the scope to be replicated on a national scale. Before joining the Young Foundation, Eleanor worked in a social enterprise building the capacity and sustainability of the third sector in the West Midlands.
Eleanor's interests lies in impact measurement tools, business planning, facilitating collaborative working and research to identify new market opportunities for potential high growth social enterprise start ups. Throughout her roles Eleanor has worked in public, private and voluntary sectors and has successfully achieved awards as a PRINCE II Practitioner and a SFEDI qualified Business and Social Enterprise Advisor. Educated at Nottingham University Eleanor holds a 2:1 BA (Hons) in Social and Cultural Studies.
Personalisation and the Legal Implications
Slide Presentation
 Jean Sapeta
Partner and Head of Employment
Hempsons
Jean leads the employment team in Hempsons’ London office; she advises a range of clients on employment and industrial relations issues across many sectors, including public, third and private sector health bodies, Medical Royal Colleges and professional partnerships. She specialises in high-impact executive board issues, where discretion and robustness is of the utmost importance; her caseload also includes professional conduct and competency issues relating to senior professionals, and high value discrimination claims. She is an acknowledged specialist speaker on discrimination and diversity issues, trade union and EU law.
 Paul Jenkins
Chief Executive
Rethink
and Member of ACEVO's Personalisation Commission
Paul Jenkins has been the Chief Executive of Rethink since 2007 and is a member of ACEVO’s Personalisation Commission.
He has over 20 years experience of management and policy making in central government and the National Health Service.
He has been responsible for the establishment and development of NHS Direct and in 2002 he was awarded and OBE for his role in setting this up. Paul’s previous experience includes the implementation of a number of major change programmes in health and social care.
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