Jo Fox BA, BSW

Director, Child-Centred Practice

Jo is one of a handful of consultants specialising in understanding how systems (both IT and management) interface with practice and its impact on social workers and the children and families they serve.  Working with practitioners across a wide range of service areas, Jo supports continuing professional development within the work place through coaching, workshops on the core skills, project management, developing bespoke IT solutions for policy and procedures and capturing information about what matters most for children and families.

Jo has worked with children and young people over the past 20 years as a support worker in a private fostering agency, a residential officer in a respite care home for disabled children, a counsellor in primary and high school settings and as a front line social worker in Children’s Services - both in Australia and the UK. More recently Jo has developed and delivered numerous training and practice improvement programmes for local authorities across the UK, worked with the Social work taskforce on ICS simplification, and delivered an web based interactive Practice tool for Local Authorities and Safeguarding boards to guide practice.

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Fareena Shaheed MSc, DipSW

Consultant Social Worker

A highly experienced social worker with a background in the family court system, Fareena Shaheed contributes a wealth of skills to Child-Centred Practice – particularly around quality assurance and continuous practice development and improvement processes.

Alan McNamara, MA BSc

Consultant Social Worker

Alan McNamara, a respected social worker and project manager for many IT practice projects across local authorities, is working with Child Centred Practice to ensure that the content of the practice manual is robust, useful and accessible.  Alan, who has worked with central government drafting policy papers, will be responsible for ensuring that the current legislation and practice are reflected in the manuals.

Suzanne Leyland

Project Manager

An IT professional with over 20 years’ experience, both in the UK and New Zealand, Suzanne Leyland provides user-friendly technology tools which help rather than hinder frontline staff from performing their everyday duties.

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