ARC’s Board of Trustees
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Chair ARC UK:
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Tina Fahm is a partner in a firm of corporate governance advisers. She has over 25 years experience in compliance and regulation, having held senior positions at Booker PLC, the Audit Commission and at the General Medical Council. She has also served on the boards of NHS trusts, housing providers, as a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales, Home Secretary’s Representative on the Hertfordshire Police Authority and more recently as Legal Services Commissioner. Tina is currently a Governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a non departmental public body of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Justice of the Peace on the Supplemental List and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. |
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Chair Northern Ireland: Agnes Lunny, Positive Futures |
My experience in the Voluntary Sector began in 1989 when I moved to a management position, working with people with a learning disability in Barnardos. I researched and co-founded a registered Charity for people with a learning disability, United Response Northern Ireland (now Positive Futures). I have been Chief Executive there since 1995. My services to people with a learning disability were recognised when I was honoured to receive an OBE in 2006. |
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Chair Wales: Chris Bennett, Perthyn |
Currently, I am CEO of Perthyn where my main areas of expertise are in strategic planning and management, I also have an in depth knowledge of provider issues. This is fueled by a close working relationship with other providers across Wales and England and an interest in Employment law, TUPE related issues and social care law. I also work closely with the Welsh Assembly Government in developing and shaping different aspects of policy relating to Learning Disability Services, which gives me an insight into the different aspects of policy development. Previous roles I have held in project management and commissioning, and planning through the closure of Ely Hospital, gave me further understanding of commissioners, their legal obligations, expectations and how they operate. |
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Chair Scotland: Peter Jung, Turning Point Scotland |
Peter is an Operations Manager for Turning Point Scotland and has worked at a senior level for more than twenty years, managing and developing services for people with learning disabilities in both the statutory and voluntary sectors. Peter is a qualified nurse both in learning disability and mental health and has a keen interest in improving support for people with learning disabilities who are in prison or who have a forensic history. |
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Chair England: Paul Ashton, Prospects | Chief Executive Officer Paul Ashton has been with Prospects since April 2000. Prior to joining Prospects he was working in the National Health Service as a chief executive in an NHS Trust. He has an MBA and holds a registered nurse qualification. He has had extensive professional and personal experience of learning disability issues. Paul is involved in leadership in his local Church and lives in Devon. |
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Treasurer: Gary Bye, Life Path Trust | Gary Bye has worked in organisations supporting people with learning disabilities since 1983. In the year 2000 Gary began working for Life Path Trust, transforming it from an organisation providing care homes to one that puts people with a learning disability at the centre. Life Path is now providing support to people in their own homes to help live an independent life. |
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BME Member Provider: Mahmud Hasan MBE, Apasenth | Mahmud Hasan is the Director of APASENTH a leading BAME organisation providing services to the people of learning and multiple disabilities. He has over 30 year’s experience of working both in voluntary and local government. He has been on the management board of various organisations such as Camden Community Relations, Camden Law Centre, Paddington Churches Housing Association and many others including London Mayor’s Asian Advisory Board and Olympic Forum.
Mahmud has strong leadership and analytical skills and networks all over the country. Due to his extensive community relations he has been honoured with an MBE by H.M.Queen in 1999.
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Larger Provider Organisations:
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Hilary Crowhurst, HFT | Hilary joined HFT in May 2009 as Director of Operations and Development. With an MA in Applied Psychology of developing services for people with a learning disability from the Tizard Centre, she has 25 years experience in the management and development of learning disability services, including 13 years at Director level – covering voluntary, private and statutory sectors. |
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Steve Witheyman, C-i-C | Steve has been in social care for over 30 years, working in both the statutory, and non statutory services. He has a breadth of knowledge and experiences across the social care spectrum from Child Protection to Mental Health, undertaking both operational and strategic senior management positions. He began his social care career in front line child protection work working in various daytime Social Services teams across Dorset, Southampton and Hampshire, before moving on to run Hampshire’s out of hours services. Steve set up the first national OT Direct service in 2001 and Hampshire’s Social Services Direct in 2004. He established ESSA (Emergency Social Services Association) and was its chair. Steve moved to the not for profit sector with Somerset Care in 2005 becoming their first Assistant Director for Learning Disabilities before moving into a similar post with CIC in 2010.
Steve has a Masters Degree in Social Work , 2 daughters and lives near Winchester. His main interests are contemporary Art and Football.
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Medium Provider Organisations:
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John Bartle, NCHA |
John is Head of Nottingham Community Housing Association’s Housing with Care & Support Services. The department provides, as its name suggests, Specialist Supported Housing Services to people with Learning Disabilities, Mental Health Problems, Physical Disabilities, Young People leaving care, Women & Children escaping Domestic Violence, Single Homeless People and families. The department has 2,500 service users, 650 staff and a turnover of £19 million. John originally trained as a Youth & Community Worker and then Qualified as a Psychiatric Social Worker. He went on to hold management positions in Local Government, and the National Health Service. He holds an MBA. |
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Deborah Tosler, Prospect Housing and Support |
Deborah has worked for Prospect Housing and Support Services for 16 years and has been its Chief Executive for 14 years. She has many years of experience working with socially excluded people. These include people with learning disabilities, people with mental ill-health, street homeless people, women fleeing violence, and drug and alcohol users. She has an MA in Community Care Management, is an NVQ Assessor, has completed PTLLS training and is an adult trainer. She is currently training to be an English teacher and in her spare time enjoys mountain and road biking, skiing, photography, learning French, and raising money for local and international charities. |
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Kate Allen, Kingwood |
Kate Allen is the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Services for The Kingwood Trust; a charity providing services for adults with Autism. She is an individual with a natural flair for managing and motivating people; a person used to taking responsibility and making important decisions at a high level. Kate changed the direction of her career in 2002 leaving a senior management position in Information Technology in the private sector to pursue a career in Social Care and is currently undertaking a MSc in Health & Social Care. She joined Kingwood in 2009 where she has worked alongside the CEO to ensure that not only are quality services provided to the people Kingwood supports but that the organisation pioneers best practise in autism. |
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Carol Barkwell, Lyndridge Community Care | Carol is a qualified state registered nurse, an NVQ Assessor and Manual Handling Trainer, with over 25 years experience in care, 17 of which have been spent managing Lyndridge. |
