Moira Gibb
Chair of the Social Work Taskforce

Moira joined Camden as Chief Executive in July 2003.  Previously she was Executive Director, Housing and Social Services in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.  She has worked in a number of local authorities, Ealing, Surrey and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in their Social Services departments in a variety of roles.  She worked as a lecturer in social work at the then Preston Polytechnic, now the University of Lancashire.  She was also a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics.  Before training as a social worker at Edinburgh University, she was a teacher in the London Borough of Newham and in Brussels.

She is a graduate of Glasgow University.  She was President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 2000/01 and was appointed CBE for Services to Social Services in the 2001 New Years Honours.

She has served on a number of bodies, including the Lifting the Burdens Task Force, is currently a Director of the London Marathon and sits on the board of the UK Statistics Authority.

Click here to see the recent Children, Schools and Families Select Committee hearing, at which Moira Gibb gave evidence on behalf of the Social Work Taskforce.

BA (Econ.); Dip. IPM; Practice Teaching Award

A qualified Human Resources and Training Manager in the private and public sector, June joined the user movement as a survivor of the psychiatric system and then moved into employment within the movement.  June has many roles in Social Work training and education increasingly as an activist campaigning for Social Justice in Social Care.  Through her role in Shaping Our Lives she works with the Social Care Institute for Excellence, Skills for Care, the General Social Care Council, the Department of Health and previously with the Commission for Social Care Inspection.  She has delivered Projects in the South West for some of these organisations to develop the involvement of service users and carers, and the involvement of 3rd Sector placement providers. 

June works with many Universities as a lecturer, as a Practice Educator, and to develop service user involvement.  She is involved in the Approval of Social Work Programmes for the GSCC as a Visitor and is also an independent Reviewer of Social Work Programmes.  June is a member of the Editorial Board for ‘Social Work Education:  The International Journal’.  She has delivered presentations at many Conferences on good practice in the involvement of service users in Social Work education, and on Social Justice.  June’s other roles include that of Trainer for the Race Equality and Cultural Capability in Mental Health Programme, and  is a South West Ambassador for the Delivering Race Equality Programme.
junesadd.equality@tiscali.co.uk

June read a poem she'd written during her keynote speach - to read the poem click here

Sue White
Professor of Social Work
University of Lancaster

Sue White is Professor of Social Work at the University of Lancaster. Her research has focused principally on the analysis of professional decision-making in child welfare.  She has recently completed two influential Research Council funded studies. The first focusing on information sharing in multi-disciplinary child welfare practice and the second on the relationship between performance management of public services responsible for safeguarding children, and the impact of anticipated blame within the decision making practices of those providing, supervising and managing these services. The latter study was catapulted into the media spotlight by the case of Baby P. in November 2008. 

Sue has been appointed to the Social Work Task Force, charged with undertaking a comprehensive review of frontline social work practice in England. She is currently Chair of the Association of Professors of Social Work and Editor in Chief of Child and Family Social Work.