SCRA's Board
SCRA operates under the direction of a Board, which reflects a range of experiences and backgrounds in relation to children and young people. The Board plays a significant role in setting the strategic direction and in challenging and supporting SCRA to deliver its plans. As a Non-Departmental Public Body, SCRA’s Board, although acting independently, is accountable to Scottish Ministers.
Douglas Bulloch was Director of Social Work in East Ayrshire. He then led the team which produced the report For Scotland’s Children on better integrated children’s services. He was a member of the Scottish Executive’s Child Protection Steering Group, Expert Reference Group on Children’s Services, Child Health Support Group and 21st Century Social Work Group.
Anne has worked extensively in the public and private sector on strategic planning, policy development, change management, business process re-engineering and facilitation of partnerships. She is currently Project Manager of Blend2Learn, a consortium of three colleges in the South of Scotland to deliver a shared learning infrastructure and a more flexible, blended approach to the curriculum.
A former convenor of social responsibility for the Scottish Episcopal Church and Director of Angus Mental Health Association, Dr Joe Morrow is an Advocate and was an HM Commissioner for Mental Health for Scotland. He was elected a Labour Councillor for Ward 5 of Dundee City Council in the May 2003 (and re-elected in May 2007) Local Government elections. He brings with him legal experience, combined with his involvement in strategic planning of Local Government Services in Dundee.
Sheriff Bowman worked as a solicitor in private practice after graduating from St Andrews University in 1965 and was appointed a sheriff in 1997.
Margaret Wells was Director of Housing and Social Work in Aberdeenshire and worked within social work services for 24 years in the East of Scotland. Between 2002 and 2004, Margaret worked as Director of Partnership Development and Child Health Commissioner for Lothian NHS Board. She was President of the Association of Directors of Social Work in the year 2000, social work advisor to COSLA and was a member of the Mental Health Reference Group and Ministerial Joint Future Group. Currently she works independently as a management and care consultant.
A former Shadow Education Convenor of West Lothian Council, Councillor Andrew Miller was elected Executive Councillor for Education in June 2007. His current council position involves the development and scrutiny of policy with a focus on Children's Services. As such, he is an active member of the CoSLA Education, Children & Young People Executive, West Lothian's Head Teacher Appointment Panel and the Placing in Schools Appeals.
Malcolm Dickson, was Assistant Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland from 2006 until July 2008 and has spent much of his 30-year career in the public sector initiating and developing effective working links and projects with local authority and senior government officials. Prior to his role within HMIC, he served in a number of operational and functional command posts within Lothian and Borders Police before becoming Assistant Chief Constable and then Deputy Chief Constable of the force between 2000 and 2006.
Netta Maciver was appointed as SCRA’s Principal Reporter in July 2008. Netta has over 30 years’ experience of working in Scotland’s social care sector, including working with families and children affected by serious physical or sexual abuse. Most recently, Netta was Chief Executive of Turning Point Scotland, a leading social and health care charity with a turnover of £28m and 1300 staff. She is also a qualified social worker, and spent her earlier career in Strathclyde in a specialist unit providing services to families where children had been seriously physically or sexually abused. In the 1980’s, Netta was Assistant Director of Social Work for Comhairle nan Eilean, before returning to Strathclyde to work with drug and alcohol services and developing the region’s strategic response to HIV/AIDS in collaboration with local health boards. She joined Turning Point in 1995 as Development Director and was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her work with women offenders and drug misusers.
