Malcolm Ward B Soc Sc (Social Administration) 1973Master of Social
Work
1978 HCPC Registered Social Worker current DBS Check - enhanced certificate - latest clearance: March 2015 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 3 years working in West
Africa as a secondary school teacher 1973 - 76
- Masters degree thesis -
Cross cultural social work with West Africans in the UK 1976
- 29 years as a
practitioner, manager and senior manager in Local Authority
children's social care / social work (London Borough of Wandsworth
1978-1998 & London Borough of Southwark 2002-Sept 2011)
- 4 years as a national
children's service manager/regional director with NSPCC
(1998-2002)
- Management of ACPCs / Local
Safeguarding Children Board/s
1992 - 1997 Wandsworth;
2002 - 2011 Southwark ;
2011-12 Lewisham - 3 months interim LSCB manager;
Aug 2012 - Sept 2013 Wokingham - LSCB development consultant;
May 2014 - March 2015 Merton - interim LSCB Manager
March - November 2015 Consultant to Merton LSCB and to Lambeth SCB
- Strategic inter-agency and
multi-disciplinary management of social work & health child
protection services; strategic leadership of multi-disciplinary services
to disabled children and their families (Chair of
the Wandsworth Inter-Agency Strategic Partnership Board for Disabled
Children)
- Inter-Agency strategic
leadership on Information Sharing and also for Workforce Development
for the Children's Strategic Partnership (Southwark) (Chair/Vice Chair of
the relevant inter-agency bodies
- Child protection
advice/mentoring to agency safeguarding advisers and designated
staff
- Complex case management;
including inter-agency and multi-disciplinary management
- Chairing of case reviews,
serious case reviews (1996 to present) & child death reviews -
including Joint LSCB Child Death Review Overview Panel (Lambeth and
Southwark)
- Independent Chair SCR Sub
Group - Lambeth SCB (to summer 2016)
- Case auditing - children's
social care and inter-agency
- Training assessment,
co-ordination and direct delivery of a range of specialist and
muliti-disciplinary one or two day courses and ongoing action learning
sets or seminars in child care and child protection; specialist course in
developing case supervisors in child protection; & training of
designated safeguarding leads in schools and early years settings
- Consultation and mentoring
- Study conference
co-ordination
- Facilitator of Action
Learning Sets for casework supervisors aimed to enhance reflective
supervision theory and skills 2003 - current
- Faculty Member of the
University of Warwick Medical School CPD Course in the Management of
Unexpected Child Deaths 2008 - 2012
- Independent Case auditing /
quality assurance - (Croydon Children's Services May/June 2012)
- Speaker at national and
local study conferences: on child death review processes; safe
recruitment processes, safeguarding children and teaching reflective and
analytic skills to casework and clinical supervisors
- Member of DfE/SCRI
'Messages from Research' Advisory Group 2010 - 11 (Advising
on Safeguarding children across services published
November 2011)
- Social Work Registration
Assessor for the Health and Care Professionals Council - August 2012 - current
- Director: Multi-Academy
Trust (Secondary and Primary, Alternative Education Provision: 2011 to December 2017
- Safeguarding Advisor and
Trainer to a local youth charity (SW London) – current (voluntary)
April 2019
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