Available Panel Members
| Initials and Position | Region | Discipline | Brief outline of experience | Present Agency contact details |
| SL (Vice Chair) | Manchester | Social Work | 4 years experience as a member of Lorimer's fostering panel. Has worked with the Registered Manager to take the agency through a process of drastic change and improvement. Currently works for a NW Local Authority Children's Services Dept in the area of ICS | Cath Hogan - Regional Director Lorimer Foster Services 08701 203523 |
| PEC (Independent Member) | Greater Manchester and North Cheshire | Retired LA Fostering and Performance Manager | Former LA Fostering Services Manager and Social Services Performance Manager. Former Panel Advisor | Liz Dent Foster Care Services North West 0161 477 0004 |
| CE (Social Worker- fostering) | Staffordshire/ South Cheshire | Social Work | Over 4 years experience as member of fostering panel. Former LA family placement worker (fostering and adoption). Currently working as an independent social worker/practice teacher. | Mike Miltiadous Park Foster Care 01270 626562 |
| LS (Panel Chair) | North West | Education | Six years experience as an independent Panel Chair. Works at Manchester Metropolitan University as a lecturer on the teacher training course where she is based in the Centre fro Inclusion and Special Educational Needs. Prior to this she taught for many years in schools, latterly as Deputy Head and SENCO carrying responsibility for pastoral care and child protection matters. | Pete Morch FCA North West 01254 841775 |
| AD (Vice Chair) | North West | Social Work | Six years experience as an independent panel member, latterly as Vice Chair. He has may years experience as a child care social worker in various settings, including emergency duty. Currently works for Greater Manchester local authority as Reviewing Officer/Child Protection Chair. | Pete Morch FCA North West 01254 841775 |
| BG (Independent Member) | North West | Retired | Six years experience as an independent panel member. He is the father of a young person with cerebral palsy and has worked alongside health, education and social services personnel to secure the best outcomes for her. He has used his local authority's respite fostering scheme. He is a retired engineer and has a special interest in health and safety matters. | Pete Morch FCA North West 01254 841775 |
| SD (Chair) | North West | Social Work | 25 years experience in social work and over four years as an independent panel member. She also provides freelance training and consultancy to various agencies. She has worked alongside staff from Sure Start and children's centres delivering training on group work, therapy and parenting issues. She has also devised and delivered training on issues such as mental health disorders in young people and child protection for approved foster carers. | Martin Sadler Foster CARES 0161 740 3278 |
| HL (Independent Member) | North West | Education (specialising in autism and challenging behaviour) | Independent Panel Member for an independent fostering agency. Supported lodgings provider. Worked as a Special Needs teacher for over 20 years. Parents worked fostered when HL was a child. | Perpetual Care
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To add a Panel Member to this list, please e-mail details to Carol Monaghan
