CV

Malcolm Ward

B Soc Sc (Social Administration) 1973

Master of Social Work 1978

Social Work England Registered Social Worker current

DBS Check - enhanced certificate - latest clearance: March 2023

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•  3 years working in West Africa as a secondary school teacher 1973 - 76

•  Masters degree thesis - Cross cultural social work with West Africans in the UK 1976

•  29 years as a practitioner, manager and senior manager in Local Authority children's social care / social work (London Borough of Wandsworth 1978-1998 & London Borough of Southwark 2002-Sept 2011)

•  years as a national children's service manager/regional director with NSPCC (1998-2002)

• Management of ACPCs / Local Safeguarding Children Board/s

     1992 - 1997 Wandsworth; 2002 - 2011 Southwark; 2011-12 Lewisham - 3  months interim LSCB manager; Aug 2012 - Sept 2013 Wokingham - LSCB development
        consultant; May 2014 - March 2015 Merton - interim LSCB Manager; March - November 2015 Consultant to Merton LSCB

• Strategic inter-agency and multi-disciplinary management of social work & health child protection services; strategic leadership of multi-disciplinary services to disabled children and their families (Chair of the Wandsworth Inter-Agency Strategic Partnership Board for Disabled Children)

• Inter-Agency strategic leadership on Information Sharing and also for Workforce Development for the Children's Strategic Partnership (Southwark) (Chair/Vice Chair of the relevant inter-agency bodies)

• Child protection advice/mentoring to agency safeguarding advisers and designated staff

• Complex case management; including inter-agency and multi-disciplinary management

• Lead Reviewer (Author or Chair) serious case reviews & child safeguarding practice reviews (1996 to present)

• Chair - Joint LSCB Child Death Review Overview Panel (Lambeth and Southwark) (to September 2011)

• Independent Chair SCR Sub Group - Lambeth SCB (2011 -  2016)

• Case auditing - children's social care and inter-agency

• Training assessment, co-ordination and direct delivery of a range of specialist and multi-disciplinary one or two day courses and ongoing action learning sets or seminars in child care and child protection; specialist course in developing case supervisors in child protection; & training of designated safeguarding leads in schools and early years settings

•  Consultation and mentoring

• Study conference co-ordination

•  Facilitator of Action Learning Sets for casework supervisors aimed to enhance reflective supervision theory and skills 2003 - 2019

• Faculty Member - University of Warwick Medical School CPD Course in the Management of Unexpected Child Deaths 2008 - 14

• Independent Case auditing / quality assurance - (Croydon Children's Services May/June 2012); Southwark Children’s Social Care  Summer 2022

• Speaker at national and local study conferences: on child death review processes; safe recruitment processes, safeguarding children and teaching reflective and analytic skills to casework and clinical supervisors

• Member of DfE/SCRI 'Messages from Research' Advisory Group 2010 - 11 (Advising on Safeguarding children across services published November 2011)

• Social Work Registration Assessor for the Health and Care Professionals Council - August 2012 to 2019

• Director: Multi-Academy Trust (Secondary and Primary, Alternative Education Provision: 2011 to December 2017

• Safeguarding Advisor and Trainer to a local youth charity (SW London) – current (voluntary)

March 2023

Contact details:

 malcolmwardcouk@aol.com

07899 057950