National Advisory Forum members

Tiegan Boyens
Tiegan is an adoptee who uses her experiences to help train, teach and provide her perspective to those working with children and young people.

Rachael Clawson
Rachael is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, where she is the director of the Centre for Social Work.

Gareth Gault
Gareth has spent most of his life working in the third sector. He also provides an expert by experience perspective to social work courses.

Anne-Marie Glover
Anne-Marie is a professor of social work at the University of Birmingham, deputy director of education for the College of Social Sciences, and professor of social work in the department of social work and social care.

Ifeanyi Nwokoro
Ify is a disability awareness spokesperson and blogger who works in the higher education sector as an expert by experience.

Sally Parker
Sally works at Birmingham City University as an expert by experience, primarily involved with the social work department across all modules.

Yasmeen Abdul Rahim
Yaz currently works within her local authority as an expert by experience, sharing her views as a person with a physical disability.

Ashleigh Searle
Ashleigh has lived experience of children’s social care and working within children’s commissioning and service improvement.

Carrie Blackwood
Carrie is a children's social worker and a practice educator in Sheffield. Carrie’s experience is in child protection and she now works in the connected persons team, working with kinship carers.

Kate Concannon
Kate is a passionate principal social worker working in adults, with experience of working in children’s services, community, public health, as well as mental health and integrated adult social care teams as a practice educator, best interest assessor.

Joe Hill
Joe is a student training to become a children and family social worker through the Frontline Programme. He is currently on placement in a support and safeguarding team in the South West.

Ceira Walsh
Ceira is a care leaver and currently in the second year of a BA (Hons) social work degree at Solent University Southampton.

Angela Duggan
Angela Duggan is a social worker and carer, working for Bradford Adult Social Care as a practice educator consultant.

Sarah Maskery
Sarah is a practice educator and social worker at a children’s hospice in the midlands.

India Edwards
India qualified as a social worker in 2022, and currently works within adult mental health services at a local authority.

Andy Hyde
Andy manages a young persons and adults disability social work team for a West Midlands based local authority.

Heather Morgan
Heather is the social work lead for Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.