About SCIE - our people

SCIE has around 80 staff made up of information specialists, researchers, social care workers and administrative staff. To contact our staff, please email info@scie.org.uk or call 020 7024 7650.

Click here for information about our Board Members.

SCIE's Executive Management Group

Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Executive

Andrea joined SCIE as Chief Executive in April 2012. She was previously Chief Executive of the Appointments Commission for four years. Prior to that, Andrea was Deputy Chief Executive at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Andrea’s career started in the health service at Tower Hamlets Health Authority in 1986, progressing to Bloomsbury and Islington Health Authority. In 1992 she moved to Camden and Islington Community Health Services, managing services for older people; and then to St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, as General Manager for Children, Women and Neurosciences Services. Before joining NICE, Andrea was also an Assistant Director in the Social Services Department for the London Borough of Camden.
Amanda Edwards, Deputy Chief Executive

Amanda leads on Children & Families work and Knowledge Management for SCIE. This includes reviewing the evidence, the production and dissemination of practice guides and the development of Social Care TV and Social Care Online, formerly the electronic Library for Social Care (eLSC). Amanda qualified as a social worker and has experience in policy, practice and service delivery, gained from her time in both central and local government. Previous to her role at SCIE, Amanda was a Principal Policy Adviser at the Cabinet Office in the Centre for Management and Policy Studies. Before that she was at the former Social Services Inspectorate where she worked on a number of policy areas about the provision of social care and social services. She leads for SCIE on international work and on joint working with NICE.
Stephen Goulder, Director of Corporate Services and Workforce Development

Stephen has responsibility for leading corporate services and SCIE’s workforce development theme. Stephen joined SCIE in January 2007 from the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority where he had worked as Director of Corporate Support since April 2003. Before that he was Deputy Chief Executive of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for three years. He had previously spent ten years in management posts in the NHS. He currently leads for SCIE in supporting the development of the College of Social Work.
David Walden, Director of Adult Services

David Walden joined SCIE as its first Director of Adult Services and Regional Development in April 2009. Prior to that he spent five years as Director of Strategy at the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI). His responsibilities at CSCI included advising and reporting on social care policy, corporate and business planning and monitoring, stakeholder engagement and CSCI’s publications and reports, including the annual State of Social Care report. David is also a non-executive director of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA). In 2003, he was Transition Director for the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts. Before that he worked for the Department of Health for over 25 years, including heading the Community Care Branch and then the Health Promotion Division, and he was Private Secretary to Sir Roy Griffiths, Deputy Chairman of the NHS Management Board. David became Head of Social Care Policy at DH in 1999. He has had two spells in the “outside” world – as Personnel Director of Poole Hospital and as a Director of Anchor Trust, England’s largest not-for-profit care and housing provider for older people.