National Advisory Forum members
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.
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.