Samuel Augustine, Programmes Development and Communications Officer, Shared Future CIC
Samuel Augustine joined Shared Future CIC in May 2023 as the programmes development and communications officer. His work overall promotes the need for participatory democratic practices and works with public bodies and other organisations in their community building and citizen engagement processes. His work has involved facilitation on the Citizen Panel on community safety and policing in Liverpool and supporting a participatory budgeting regenerative economy multi-year project in Lancaster. Later this year, Samuel will be launching multiple workshops to support social enterprises implement participatory budgeting processes throughout the northwest.
If we want to overcome blocks that stop important discussions, ideas, and solutions to the many issues we face, including polarised discourse, Samuel argues that sharing power with all communities is vital. However, he argues that community power can only happen when the citizen is empowered. Mechanisms like participatory budgeting and citizens’ juries make this possible through shared deliberation and expression, understanding of complex information and processes, and sharing of decision-making powers. For him, the solution is simple; we need more people powered participation.
Sacha Bedding, Chief Executive, Wharton Trust
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Samira Ben Omar, Independent Consultant and New Local Board Member
Samira brings over 25 experience of working in the NHS and with grassroots community groups. She works primarily in that ‘in-between system and community space’ to facilitate conversations for change on equality, participatory research and in initiating grassroots community led programmes. Samira held a range of community engagement, health improvement and EDI focused roles including most recently as Head of Engagement and Partnerships and Equalities, Diversity, and Inclusion in North West London Integrated Care System. Prior to that, she was the Assistant Director of Equalities and Head of System Change in the NHS.
Over the past 6 years she has worked closely with the community affected by the Grenfell Fire to facilitate local conversations; promote and advocate on behalf of and amplify (nationally and locally) the voices of families and the community affected by the Grenfell Disaster. Samira was named as one of the top 50 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic People in Health by the Health Service Journal 2022 and 2023 for her work on community collaboration.
Samira is the co-founder of Community Voices: Conversations for Change and the multi-award-winning community Champions Programme in London. She is currently an Associate at the King’s Fund, the Centre for Population Health, National Voices; she is also a Trustee at the Nuffield Trust and the Deputy Chair of the Grenfell Research Development Group.
Carl Brown, Systems Practice Manager, MEAM
Carl Brown is a Systems Practice Manager at MEAM, providing bespoke systems support to effectively address complex challenges linked to multiple disadvantage. Prior to MEAM, Carl held several roles related to Housing First, working as a Navigator and Service Manager and then as an evaluator for the national Housing First Pilot. As someone with lived experience of homelessness and multiple disadvantage, he is passionate about his work. Carl has also worked in transformational teams, applying systems thinking methods to bring about positive change in both private and public sectors.
Michael Cogher, Comptroller and City Solicitor and Deputy Chief Executive, City of London Corporation
Admitted as a solicitor in 1991 following articles at the London Borough of Richmond and then working for the London Borough of Merton (1991-2000), Peterborough City Council (2000-2001) and London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (2001-2012). Specialised in public & administrative law and corporate governance since 1998 particularly in judicial review proceedings. Appointed first shared Director of Legal Services in London by Hammersmith and Kensington & Chelsea in 2009 and acted as principal legal adviser to the Tri-Borough Project (shared services between H&F, K&C and Westminster CC). Joined Corporation of London as Comptroller & City Solicitor in April 2012. Married with two children.
Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz, Leader of Islington Council
Kaya was appointed Leader of Islington Council in May 2021, previously working as Executive Member for Children, Young People and Families. Kaya’s achievements since becoming Leader include providing laptops to all care leavers and year 7s who need them to tackle the digital divide, investing in tackling the climate emergency by improving air quality and the biodiversity in the borough and championing early intervention, in particular in the areas of physical and mental health. She has pioneered a Community Power approach to leadership in Islington, running the biggest engagement exercise in the Council’s history and planning a series of Citizen’s Panels. Her commitment is to create an Equal Islington for all who live and work in the borough.
Lisa Cover, Community Development Manager, Northwood Together
Lisa’s professional journey began in a housing association in Merseyside, where she honed her skills in governance and community engagement for over 25 years. Transitioning from this long-standing role, Lisa embraced a new challenge with Northwood Together, starting in 2017, with a focus on building trust and fostering open communications with the community. Through engagement events and candid discussions, she cultivated a rapport with the locals, enabling her to effectively channel their voices into the Big Local partnership’s initiatives.
Under her leadership, Northwood Together has organized the Shape Shifters programme, numerous community-building activities, including support events for parents, recreational trips, and festive gatherings, significantly impacting local camaraderie and support networks.
Prof. John Denham, Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at Southampton University
Professor John Denham is the Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at Southampton University. He was a Minister for ten years in the last Labour Government, including as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government where he oversaw the Total Place pilots. The John writes regularly, and hosts events, on English devolution, England’s governance and relationship with the United Kingdom, and the politics of England’s national identities
Stephanie Draper, Director of Innovation and Practice, Involve
Stephanie is the Director of Innovation and Practice at Involve. She oversees a cross section of projects that practically deliver public deliberation and engagement on key decisions. Her work includes leading citizen assemblies, juries and other public participation processes to deliver impact. Recent projects include Hackney Citizen Jury, Waltham Forest Citizen Assembly and Thriving Places. Stephanie is an established leader in the charity sector, with over 20 years experience working on complex system change projects, bringing people together, and ensuring that they deliver impact on sustainability and equity. She joined Involve from Bond – the membership body for the UK’s international development agencies – where she was their CEO and drove a move to locally led development. She was previously Deputy CEO and Chief Change Officer at Forum for the Future
Clenton Farquharson CBE, Professional Revolutionary for Social Justice and Chair of the Think Local Act Personal partnership board
Clenton Farquharson CBE is a disabled person with lived experience of health and social care who employs his own Personal Assistant. He is Chair of the Think Local Act Personal partnership board, and member of the Coalition for Collaborative Care.
Clenton is also a member of the NHS Assembly, set up to oversee the NHS Ten Year Plan and is a trustee of SCIE, the Race Equality Foundation, and Disability Rights UK. He is a director of Community Navigator Services CIC, and a Skills for Care Ambassador. He works as a consultant, auditor, trainer, and coach on inclusion, intersectionality, social justice and social change. Clenton was named in Disability News Services’ list of influential disabled people.
In the June 2023 Kings Honours List, Clenton was awarded a CBE in recognition for his work in disability personalisation and co-production in Health & Social Care Policy. In his spare time, he supports Birmingham City Football Club.
Andy Ferrier, Chief Executive at Test Valley Borough Council
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Laura Finucane FMACP FCSP, Clinical Director, Consultant Physiotherapist and Hon. Associate Professor St Georges University London
Laura Finucane is a consultant musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapist and the Clinical Director for Sussex MSK Partnership in the UK. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at St Georges University London. Laura’s special interest is in serious pathologies of the spine and she has presented nationally and internationally on this subject.
More recently she has been involved in a global strategy to improve MSK health. The strategy recognises that if we want to improve people’s MSK and wider health, we need to do things differently, including a greater focus on prevention and health promotion. At a local level Laura has experimented in how we might deliver care that supports people with their MSK condition and beyond through the Community Appointment Days (CAD) . The CADs, delivered in the community and supported by a range of VCSE, have focussed on ‘what matters most’ to people. These strength based conversations have enabled participants to be more involved in their own health care.
Georgia Gould, Cllr for Kentish Town ward, Leader of Camden Council & Chair of London Councils
Georgia grew up in Kentish Town and attended Camden School For Girls. She stood as a councillor as she wanted to give back. As a local councillor, she has worked hard to win investment for local schools, community centres and libraries. She is passionate about opening up opportunities for young people in Camden. Elected leader in 2017, she has been focused on building new council homes, improving local services, tackling the climate crisis, opening up decision-making and supporting the community through Covid. She is committed to continuing to work hard for the community she lives in and loves.
Ayesha Hakim Rahman, Acting Deputy Director Strategy, Improvement & Transformation, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Ayesha’s background in both the public and voluntary sectors, coupled with her advocacy for Black and Minority Ethnic representation, positions her as leader in fostering deep and meaningful connections around issues that matter most to underrepresented individuals.
With a wealth of experience in ensuring inclusive engagement, Ayesha’s career began in the voluntary and community sector, where she led collaborative programme development to drive impactful grassroots initiatives.
Ayesha is currently the Acting Deputy Director of Strategy, Improvement and Transformation at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. With over a decade of experience in corporate transformation, she is dedicated to moving organisations to a space where all decisions are centred on community need.
A commitment to empowering voices extends beyond Ayesha’s professional work. She is the founder of RISEilience, a thought leadership podcast that elevates the voices of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals, recognising the critical need to address the lack of minority representation in corporate leadership.
Adam Hawksbee, Deputy Director, Onward
Adam Hawksbee is Deputy Director of the centre-right think tank Onward, and Chair of the Prime Minister’s Towns Unit. His work focuses on increasing economic growth and strengthening communities across the UK, and he has published research on a range of topics including empowering regional mayors, tackling antisocial behaviour and reforming technical education. He was previously Head of Policy to Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands. Adam is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Kennedy Fellow, and has worked with US Mayors as a Research Fellow at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and during a period at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations. As Chair of the No.10 and Dept for Levelling Up Towns Unit he supports the 75 towns receiving a £20m endowment as part of the £1.5bn Long Term Plan for Towns.
Eve Holt, Strategic Director, GM Moving
Eve Holt, Strategic Director for GM Moving. I have the awesome job of working with people and organisations across Greater Manchester, as a movement for movement, to enable #ActiveLivesforAll. Passionate about people, participation, place and planet. Co-founder of women’s social enterprise organisation Happen Together CIC, Bike Hive Manchester, DivaManc (putting the diva into devolution) and GM4Women2028. Served as a Councillor for Chorlton, Manchester City Council 2018-24 and before that I was a Legal Aid and Public Law Solicitor 2002-2015, initially working on criminal defence and asylum appeals before specialising in education, health, social care and mental health.
Ben Hughes, Head of Wellbeing and Public Health at Essex County Council
Having worked in the criminal justice system and supported the implementation of early prison drug treatment services in the 90s, Ben moved to work as the Drug and Alcohol Action Team Co-ordinator and commissioner of drug and alcohol services in 2000. He has subsequently managed several complex local partnerships through periods of change in the drug and alcohol agenda.
He has worked in Europe with EU pre-accession countries supporting the development of local and national policy, strategy, and delivery frameworks in the substance misuse arena.
Ben is now Head of Wellbeing and Public Health at Essex County Council with responsibility for Drugs and Alcohol, Health and Justice, Housing Related Support and Homelessness prevention, complex needs and elements of Domestic Abuse commissioning. Most recently he created the Essex Recovery Foundation, a charity comprising lived and living experience that is taking commissioning responsibility for substance misuse services in Essex seeing a shift to community leadership and true co-production. Ben also chairs the English Substance Use Commissioners Group working with commissioners across the country and colleagues in Government to support the ongoing development of effective commissioning to ensure effective delivery of the national drug strategy.
Ruth Ibegbuna, Changemaker & serial founder
of cool organisations including Rekindle School and the Roots Programme.
With a successful teaching career under her belt, Ruth founded Rekindle, a unique school in Manchester designed and led by young people who reimagined what a better education system could look and feel like. She previously set up the multi award-winning youth leadership charity RECLAIM. More recently she started the Roots Programme, a radical new initiative to bridging divides across UK communities.
Dr Jagan John, Gp and GPWSI in Cardiology in North East London
Dr Jagan John is a GP and GPWSI in Cardiology in North East London. He is one of the primary care board member for North East London ICB and is the Clinical Director for Personalisation for NHS England (London) and senior clinical lead for Transforming Health and Care Partners
(London). He is the former chair of NEL CCG and BD CCG. He is a strong advocate of proactive personalised holistic multidisciplinary care to support residents and patients and believes strongly in leadership development at all levels.
Katie Kelly, Chair, New Local
Katie Kelly is the former Deputy Chief Executive with East Ayrshire Council and has recently retired following an incredible career of over 30 years in the public, health and communities’ sectors. She has led a wide portfolio of services and partnerships including Housing, Communities, Transformation, Economic Growth, Transport, Net Zero and Wellbeing, and Health Improvement. Katie was also employed by the NHS to set up the Community Health Partnership and integration arrangements in Ayrshire with a strong focus on co-creating health and ensuring full engagement of patients, their families and wider communities in local healthcare and wellbeing.
Katie has a proven, evidence-based track record of leading whole system transformational change and co-designing innovative, sustainable, people-centred and citizen-led services which have released large scale recurring revenue savings and simultaneously improved outcomes for local people.
She developed and led the unique and nationally acclaimed Vibrant Communities approach in East Ayrshire which is underpinned by the findings of the Christie Commission and delivered whole system transformation with a focus on community power and community led regeneration. Vibrant Communities has now been running for over 10 years and has made a major impact locally and nationally by valuing the talents in communities and transforming the relationship between public bodies and the people they serve. This approach is the clearest expression of community power and has influenced practice in public bodies across the UK and helped to shape key legislation around community empowerment and public service reform.
Katie is passionate about working alongside people and communities, reducing inequalities, collaborative leadership, coaching and helping to make a positive and lasting difference to people lives.
Claire Kennedy, Joint Chief Executive of PPL and Vice Chair of New Local
Prior to joining the public sector, Claire was a political consultant and communications expert with Westminster Strategy and Ketchum Communications, co-authoring reports with think tanks and advising clients on national-level policy development.
Since 2002, Claire has been working at the heart of the public sector improvement agenda. She has extensive experience of managing complex change projects across multiple service areas, and delivering benefits for customers and staff.
Claire co-founded PPL in 2007, and has led implementation teams across health, social care and voluntary and community sectors. Her current work involves working with local areas moving towards the development of accountable care. Her particular area of focus is in enabling leaders to connect across a system in a way that is authentic, and that creates strong practical working relationships at all levels. In addition to her academic background in organisational change, Claire is a qualified coach.
Claire is Vice Chair of New Local and former Vice President of the UK Management Consultancies Association. She is also a Fellow of the RSA.
Halima Khan, Senior Advisor, PPL and Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Halima advises and researches on public service innovation and, in particular, approaches which build people’s dignity, hope, purpose and agency.
Halima has been a senior official in national, regional and local government – at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Greater London Authority and Camden Council. She has also spent more than a decade in social innovation, principally at Nesta, the innovation foundation for social good. At Nesta, Halima founded Health Lab to support people-powered approaches to health, and People Powered Results which enabled public services to use action-focused, collaborative and data-driven innovation methods.
Now working independently, Halima is an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is also Senior Advisor at PPL, a social enterprise management consultancy, where her focus is building innovation capabilities in public services and civil society. Halima is Associate Fellow at the think tank IPPR and also provides independent consultancy on public service innovation.
Halima holds non-executive positions at the National Lottery Community Fund, Royal Society for Public Health and British Academy. In 2015, Halima was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Health Sciences by Anglia Ruskin University. Her recent publications include Social R&D: the next phase of public service reform? and Great Government: Public service reform in the 2020s.
Meena Kishinani, Independent Consultant and New Local Board Member
As Director of Transformation at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Meena was responsible for one of the largest and most ambitious local authority transformation programmes within London. In 2015, presented with a large budget gap and a whole host of aspirations for local residents and businesses, Meena took on her new role – supporting the new Administration and Chief Executive to develop a new organisational wide transformation strategy and associated programme of exploration, design and implementation.
Previously Deputy Director for Children’s Services, and various other senior leadership in local government before that, Meena was able to bring her experience, skills and relationships to drive an unprecedented programme of change. Affecting over 3,500 staff, Meena led a multi-faceted programme of activity to deliver a new kind of council, one that would not just weather the storm of austerity but continue to be sustainable in the long term.
Meena has a 35-year career in local government and in May 2021, began a new chapter of her career as a Management Consultant. Her first assignment has been with Birmingham City Council, the largest single local authority in the country, working alongside the newly appointed CE Deborah Cadman to drive forward an ambitious programme of transformation and change.
Charles Kwaku-Odoi DL, Chief Executive of the Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN)
Charles Kwaku-Odoi DL is Chief Executive of the Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN), a leading national Black health organisation at the forefront of reducing health
Inequalities and wider disparities. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Greater Manchester, an honorary member of the esteemed Faculty of Public Health (FPH), and the honorary Ecumenical Canon at Manchester Cathedral.
He has board roles including the NHS Race and Health Observatory; Manchester Foundation Trust Council of Governors; and Government SAGE Ethnicity Subgroup. Charles was named in the Health Service Journal 50 most influential Black Asian and Minority Ethnic people in health in the UK for two years running (2022 & 2023).
Charles is a great advocate for equity and fairness across a range of important health and wellbeing issues for people of the Caribbean and African Diaspora. He is involved in work that influences the research, policy, and practice at regional and national levels.
His special interest includes civic and democratic participation, blood & organ donation HIV, domestic violence, modern slavery and hate crime. Reading, walking, and football are his hobbies.
Matt Leach, CEO, Local Trust
Matt Leach is the CEO of Local Trust a national charity set up in 2012 to deliver the Big Local programme. We believe that trusting communities and giving them more power will enable local people to significantly improve their quality of life and the places in which they live.
He leads the charge on Local Trust’s promotion of the Big Local model – long-term, flexible funding straight to the communities that need it most – with the funding sector, policymakers and the academic community. Successes have included the campaign for a community wealth fund.
He is a former senior civil servant, CEO of HACT, the social housing sector’s ideas and innovation agency and of civil society funding agency Capacitybuilders.
Misbah Malik, Senior Policy Officer, HOPE not hate
Misbah is the Senior Policy Officer at HOPE not hate, the UK’s leading anti-fascist organisation. Her work addresses the communities who are susceptible to the far right and the issues which give rise to them, with a focus on migration and cohesion policy, particularly as they relate to anti-Muslim hatred.
Prior to this Misbah worked as the Public Affairs Offer for International Humanitarian Policy at British Red Cross.
Outside of work Misbah has been involved in a number of local grassroots organisations covering a range of issues including food poverty, homelessness and knife crime, and also founded her local Palestine Solidarity Group. She has a BA in Geography and MPhil in Development Studies from University of Cambridge.
Brendan Martin, Founder and Managing Director, Public World
Brendan Martin is founder and managing director of Public World, an international social enterprise dedicated to improving public services by supporting staff to work with greater freedom and responsibility within normative guidelines.
He is also an active volunteer in his London neighbourhood, working with others and liaising with the council to make their local park a beautiful, safe and supportive meeting place for all.
Public World provides learning and development support, coaching and organisational change consultancy to enable self-organised teamwork, and is particularly focused on applying this approach to strengthening community power in health and social care.
With clients such as Cambridgeshire County Council, the London boroughs of Newham and Redbridge, several NHS providers, and charities including Thistle Foundation, Public World has supported change in 40+ health and care settings over the past 10 years.
Before that, Brendan’s work was at international level in more than 70 countries, with governments, labour unions and NGOs. He has served on advisory groups of the UN and OECD, and as an advisor to the International Labour Organisation.
A journalist and broadcaster by background, Brendan is the author of In the Public Interest? Privatisation and Public Sector Reform (Zed Books, 1993) and much else.
Jim McMahon OBE MP, Labour and Co-operative MP, Oldham West & Royton
Jim McMahon OBE is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Oldham West & Royton and has been serving the communities of Chadderton, Oldham, and Royton since 2015. He is also the chair of the Co-operative Party who are committed to building a society where power and wealth are shared.
In November 2023, Jim joined Deputy Leader of the Labour Party & Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, Angela Rayner and her team as Shadow Minister for Local Government & English Devolution. Jim is currently in this role and has an abundance of experience in the local government and devolution sector, with his past experience as a Cllr and Leader of Oldham Council providing the tools to succeed in this role. He is committed to championing the work of Councillors and Mayors, making the case for further devolution, and fighting for the financial stability of local governments.
Sepi Noohi, Emerging Futures, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Sepi leads multiple strands of collective imagination work within the Conditions and Capacities strand of the Emerging Futures programme at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with the intention of cultivating and practicing our collective sense of possibility and agency at a time of polycrises. Sepi’s background is in urban socio-environmental research and policy advocacy within the European Union, and has worked with NGOs, city councils and international institutions in Sierra Leone, India, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Robert Pollock, CEO, Cambridge City Council and New Local Treasurer
Robert joined Cambridge City Council as Chief Executive in April 2021.
Prior to that he was a Director at Social Finance, a non-for-profit social investment organization. Robert has held leadership roles at the United Nations in New York, HM Treasury and the National Infrastructure Commission.
Robert has been a Fellow of Practice at the Government Outcomes Lab, Blavatnik School of Government, and a NED at various charities, social enterprises and social investment partnerships. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, and an avid supporter of the Mountain Bothy Association.
Gavin Roberts, Head of Systems Practice, MEAM and Board Member of SCiO
Gavin Roberts is the Head of Systems Practice at MEAM and board member of SCiO, (the professional body for systems practice). Gavin holds a Level 7 qualification in leadership and management and is undertaking a Level 7 apprenticeship in Systems Practice. Gavin has 10 years’ experience as a systems practitioner working within local authorities and the VCS, specialising in multi-organisational context. His passion is to make systems approaches accessible to all – believing this is the way we need to work in the world we now face.
Katie Schmuecker, Principal Policy Adviser at Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)
Katie leads the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s work on destitution and deep poverty. This includes the national campaign to create an ‘Essentials Guarantee’ in Universal Credit, as well as other national and local policy changes to reduce levels of hardship and strengthen work in communities and neighbourhoods to build the foundations for people to thrive. She is a regular commentator in the media through blogs, articles and broadcast appearances. Her areas of expertise include poverty, destitution, Universal Credit, devolution, economic development and neighbourhood renewal. Prior to joining JRF, Katie was Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research North. She has also worked for the Campaign for the English Regions, the Yes campaign for an elected North East Regional Assembly, and for an MP.
Jessica Studdert, Acting Chief Executive, New Local
Jessica leads New Local’s research programme and contributes to the strategic oversight of the organisation.
She writes and speaks about numerous subjects related to localism, devolution, public service reform and local finance. She co-authored the Community Paradigm with Adam Lent which was published in 2019 and continues to inform much of New Local’s research and practice. She joined the organisation in September 2015.
Previously, Jessica was political adviser to the Labour Group at the Local Government Association (LGA). She led policy there, working closely on public service reform and devolution. This included a secondment to the Policy Unit of the Leader of the Opposition’s Office during 2013-14 to lead on the Local Government Innovation Taskforce, a commission that reported into Labour’s Policy Review ahead of the 2015 General Election. Prior to that, she worked in policy roles in the voluntary sector for a homelessness and children’s charity, and she began her career at the Fabian Society.
Mick Ward, Senior Associate, Nurture Development
Mick Ward is a Senior Associate of Nurture Development where he delivers training and support for organisations on Asset Based Community Development.
He is also a Trustee of PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Leeds), a Trustee of Polite Rebellion, a Leeds based arts organisation, a board member of Marching Out Together, the Leeds United LGBTQ+ fan group, and a Shared Lives Carer.
He retired in June 2020 as Chief Officer, Transformation, and Innovation, for the Adults and Health Directorate in Leeds City Council. The role focused on Asset Based Community Development, Digital Health, Arts and Well-Being, Service Transformation, Equality, and Innovation in Practice.
He is from Leeds and worked in social care at Leeds City Council for 42 years, initially as a Care Assistant before developing and managing a range of services for disabled people and then moving into commissioning for Adult Social Care, Public Health, Housing Support and the NHS. This developed into an expanded joint role as Deputy Director across the Local Authority and the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Leeds, leading on commissioning across a wide range of health, care and wellbeing services, before establishing the transformation and innovation role.
Mick has a strong commitment to the social model of disability, citizenship, communities, innovation, culture, equality, and diversity, and working in partnership.