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Subject experts
SCIE’s Training and Consultancy services are overseen by a panel of in-house subject experts.
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Patricia Kearney BA, MSc (Oxon), CQSW – Families and Children
Patricia Kearney is Head of Families & Children’s Services and is responsible for SCIE’s families and children programmes; the Good Practice Framework and leads development of the professional capabilities Framework for the Social Work reform Board. She is a registered social worker with over 20 years direct experience in child protection, mental health and drug and alcohol services. She is an experienced family therapist, social work teacher and researcher and co-authored the original SCODA Guideline on drug-using parents. Prior to joining SCIE she was director of practice development at the National Institute for Social Work.
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Carolyn Denne BA Joint Hons, Dip Applied Soc Studies, Dip HSSM, CQSW - Service Quality for Adults
Carolyn Denne moved from the Care Quality Commission to SCIE in July 2010 to become Head of Service Quality for Adults. Her responsibilities include leading work to promote health and well-being such as integrated working, prevention, end of life care and support for people living with dementia – including SCIE’s popular Dementia Gateway. Having represented SCIE on the NICE Quality Standard topic expert group on End of Life Care she is leading work to support NICE develop Quality Standards in adult social care.
Carolyn is a registered social worker, with 30 years experience in local government, social care and the NHS. Her career spans practice, policy development, performance and quality, commissioning and planning in local and national government and in regulation.
Pete Fleischmann - Participation
Pete Fleischmann was appointed Head of Participation at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in 2004. This role includes ensuring that users and carers are at the heart of everything SCIE does as well as producing good practice guidance for the sector on co-production and participation Pete has experience of using mental health services and has been active in the mental health user movement for over 15 years. Pete was development worker and then co-ordinator of Brent Mental Health User Group (BUG). Until 2004 Pete worked as an independent consultant. Contracts included working with the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at the Institute of Psychiatry, developing user involvement at Revolving Doors Agency and working in Eastern Europe to build the capacity of non-governmental organisations.
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Hugh Constant MA, DipSW – Practice Development
Hugh Constant is Practice Development Manager and has worked in adult social care for over 20 years, as a frontline social worker and in statutory and voluntary sector management roles. At SCIE, Hugh has worked on commissions for the Department of Health and CQC, and on guides on autism and on parental mental health and child welfare. He is now leading on implementing Learning Together within adult services. Prior to joining SCIE in 2009, Hugh managed an east London social work team for six years, tackling a range of practice and safeguarding issues in a pressurised environment.
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Dr Sheila Fish – Safeguarding
Sheila Fish is research analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Her main focus has been on developing the systems approach for case reviews, including serious case reviews (SCRs), of multi-agency safeguarding and child protection work. This has involved theoretical as well as practical collaborative development work. More recently she has been developing, and providing, a training and accreditation programme in use of the Learning Together model. Her academic background is in social anthropology with a particular focus on children and childhood. She spent several years in Indonesia working in the field of child welfare as well as conducting ethnographic fieldwork. She retains a keen research interest in the use of ethnographic methods in the field of child welfare, particularly to explore interfaces between formal knowledge and professional practice.
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Robert Templeton MA, DipSW - Transforming Adult Social Care
Robert Templeton is Head of Transforming Adult Social Care and is responsible for SCIE’s Personalisation, Adult Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act programs. Robert joined SCIE from the Local Government Group, where his work included the development of Adult Social Care Services Peer Reviews, and supporting the Transformation of Adult Social Care. Prior to this, Robert managed learning disability services for a range of local authorities, having started his career with roles in Cambridgeshire’s Education Department, Addenbrooke's Hospital, and in the London Borough of Hackney. Robert has also worked as a Special Needs Social Worker in Tala, Kangundo, Kenya.
Training and Consultancy team
SCIE’s Training and Consultancy team will match SCIE’s services to your needs, make sure you have all that you need before our trainers and consultants start their work with you, and ensure everything runs smoothly. We will also ask you for your feedback on completion so we can continuously improve our offer to the sector. SCIE’s Training and Consultancy team are ready to help you. To contact us email TrainingandConsultancy@scie.org.uk or call 020 7024 7650.
