SIR THOMAS BOYD-CARPENTER (Chairman) spent his career in the army serving latterly as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff responsible for strategic planning, resource allocation and personnel policy. Since his retirement he has been serving as Chairman of the Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority and as Chairman of the Social Security Advisory Committee as well as working as a consultant with ‘People in Business'.
NAOMI ANGELL is a partner with Goodman Ray Solicitors where she specialises in children's law and heads the adoption team. She recently stood down from the Law Society's Family Law Committee, and is a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers.
DR CAROLE KAPLAN is a senior lecturer and consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Child Health, Newcastle University and City Health Trust. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is also a member of the Council on Tribunals.
DR JANET LEWIS is Research Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which funds research and development projects in the field of housing, social care and social policy.
SUZAN MATTHEWS QC was called to the Bar in 1974 and has specialised in family work since 1979. She served as a member of the Gas Consumer Council until 1996 and is the Chair of the Valley Trust, a charity which aims to support adults and children in relationship breakdown.
PROFESSOR PHYLLIDA PARSLOE is a senior research fellow and emeritus professor in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University. She is a member of the Alcohol Research and Education Council, a non-executive director of Frenchay Health Care Trust, and a member of Horfield Prison Board of Visitors.
PROFESSOR SIMON ROBERTS is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His specialist field is the study of dispute processes with a particular focus on negotiation and mediation.
JANE SIMPSON is a partner with Manches and Co Solicitors where she heads the Family Law Department. She is former Chair of the Solicitors Family Law Association and has been a member of the Board of the Family Mediators' Association. She is currently a member of the Lord Chancellor's Ancillary Relief Advisory Group and a non-executive director of the Tavistock Portman NHS Trust.
DAVID SKIDMORE is Assistant Chief Probation Officer in the West Midlands, responsible for the Family Court Welfare Service. He is a member of both the Coventry and Birmingham Guardian ad Litem Panel Committees and of the Family Court Business Committees in Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE WALL was appointed to the Family Division of the High Court in 1993. He is joint editor of Rayden and Jackson on Divorce.
COLIN WEBB, a former Deputy Editor of The Times, recently took early retirement from his position as general manager of the Press Association in order to work in family mediation. He has trained with the Family Mediators' Association and National Family mediation and works as a mediator at the Eye- to-Eye centre in Camberwell, specialising in children's issues (endnote 1).
ANTHONY WELLS is the former Director of the National Council for Family Proceedings. Prior to that he worked as the regional staff development officer for the Probation Service in the South West Region with a particular interest in divorce court welfare.
Colin Webb resigned from the Board in October 1997 due to a conflict of interest.
| 1 | Colin Webb resigned from the Board in October 1997 due to a conflict of interest. |