Committee Members

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David Lane, Chair

On leaving Cambridge University where he studied Classics and Moral Sciences, David worked for eight years in residential child care, first at Aycliffe Classifying School and later as Superintendent of Olands Assessment Centre, Somerset, jointly with his wife Kathleen. He then spent three years as a Social Work Education adviser at CCETSW, being involved in the creation of the CSS and policy on training for residential workers. The next eighteen years were spent in local authority senior management as Assistant Director in Hillingdon and Director of Social Services in Wakefield. Since 1993 he has fulfilled various roles, including consultant, expert witness in child care cases, Chair of the Langley House Trust for ex-offenders and Editor of Children Webmag. He has been President of the SCA, a Governor of NISW, a Board member of NCB, and he is Honorary Life President of FICE, and Vice President of NCMA and Leonard Cheshire Disability. He has edited or contributed to a number of books and reports, and was a member of the Wagner Working Party.
 

Rosemary Lilley, Secretary

 Retired two years ago after 40+ years working in various aspects of residential and day child care services primarily in the voluntary sector; the last 18 years were spent managing a Family Centre. Since retirement continue to manage a small Family Counselling Service and undertake some Practice Teaching/Assessing for social work students.  Trustee, Planned Environment Therapy Trust.
 

 

John Cross, Treasurer

Executive Director of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust.
 

 

 
  

Charles Sharpe, Membership Secretary


Trained and worked as teacher in both day and residential schools. He has been a manager in residential child care settings in the public, voluntary and private sectors. For the last ten years he has been a child care consultant to a variety of organisations. Until recently he was for a number of years a tutor on the Caldecott College/University of Exeter Graduate Course in Child Development and the Care of Children and Young People and before that a tutor on the Caldecott College/University of Greenwich Graduate Course in Therapeutic Child Care. He currently teaches his own course in residential child care based on psychodynamic theory and practice. His main research interests have been the educational experience of children in the public care, and the training of residential child care staff.
 Craig Fees

Craig Fees, Communication and Information Officer

 
Hon. Director, Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE); Archivist, Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre; Member, Oral History Society Committee; Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Medicine at Birmingham University.
 

BOARD MEMBERS WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
 

Nicola Hilliard


Head of Library and Information Services, National Children's Bureau. Editor of Highlights, NCB's research summaries on key issues, joint book review editor of Children & Society, NCB’s academic journal. Manages the Children’s Play Information Service, and the PSHE/Citizenship Information Service both based in the NCB Library.
 

 

Alan MacQuarrie

Dr Alan MacQuarrie is the SIRCC Library and Information Officer. Alan has a PhD (Edinburgh) on Medieval and Scottish History. Alan is an author of several works on Scottish History and has contributed to an as yet unpublished paper on the history and development of RCC in Scotland.

 
 

Evelyn Daniel

General Manager, Mulberry Tree Child Care Services
 

Robert Clark


Archivist, the Caldecott Association

 
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