Trustees
Parenting UK’s chair and board of trustees
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Dame Jane Roberts DBE, ChairJane has been Chair of Parenting UK since December 2006. She has experience in a wide range of roles in the public and third sectors. Jane is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Whittington Hospital, London. She was Leader of the Borough of Camden from 2000 to 2005 and an executive director of a primary care trust for eight years until 2010. Jane is also a non-executive member of the Ofsted Board since 2006 and she is also a member of the board of IPPR, New Local Government Network, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and a school governor. -
Dr John Coleman OBE, Clinical PsychologistJohn Coleman is a psychologist whose primary interest is adolescence. He founded the Trust for the Study of Adolescence (later renamed Young People in Focus) and was the Director of the organisation from 1989 until he retired in 2005. From 2005 to 2006 he held a post as a Policy Advisor in the Department of Health, and since October 2006 he has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. -
Simon Goodall CBEFormer Rear Admiral in Royal Navy
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Paul Hodgkinson CBE(Honorary Treasurer) Chief Executive of Simons Group
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Phil HopeDirector of Improving Care and former Minister of State for Care Services at Department of Health
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Geethika JayatilakaDirector of Communications Creativity, Culture & Education
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Jane KlauberSolicitor at Russell Cooke Solicitors
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Alison LoughlinProject Worker/Head of Northern Ireland Parenting Forum
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Annette Mountford MBEChief Executive of Family Links
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John SayceNeath Port Talbot Parenting Matters, Chair of Welsh Parenting Forum (Fforwm Magu Plant)
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Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown, (Vice Chair of Trustees) Chair of Public Health and Divisional Director of Research at Warwick Medical School
Sarah Stewart-Brown is vice-chair of trustees at Parenting UK. She is chair of Public Health at Warwick University and is currently Director of the Health Science Research Institute in Warwick Medical School. Sarah studied medicine at the University of Oxford and at the Westminster Hospital in London. She worked in the National Health Service from 1974–1994 first as a paediatrician and subsequently as a Public Health doctor in London, Bristol and Worcester. She also held academic appointments at the Departments of Child Health, and of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Bristol. Before joining the Institute she was a Reader in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford where she directed the Health Services Research Unit. -
Alison ToddChildren 1st, Children and Families Services Director of Policy and Practice Development and Chairperson of Parenting Across Scotland
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Charles Walker, Conservative MP for BroxbourneCharles was elected to the House of Commons in May 2005. Since being elected, he has been involved in numerous local campaigns and in particular has championed the issue of mental health. Charles appreciates being kept on his toes by his constituents and he shares the value they place on hard work and plain speaking. His Parliamentary record demonstrates that he is not afraid to tackle difficult or controversial issues.
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