Senior Management

Principal Reporter/Chief Executive Officer - Neil Hunter
Neil Hunter became Principal Reporter/Chief Executive of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration in April 2011. Neil has held previous operational and strategic posts across Social Work and Health Care Services in Glasgow/Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Until December 2010 Neil was the Director of West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP). For 5 years prior to that he was led the Addictions Partnership for the City of Glasgow. Both of these posts were joint NHS/Local Authority appointments.

Neil’s work experience with children and young people goes back to the early 1990’s when he was involved in the management of support services for young homeless people in Glasgow and later established one of Scotland’s first substance misuse services for children and young people in Springburn, North Glasgow.

Neil’s background is in the social sciences, where he holds a first degree from the University of Glasgow, Masters Degree from Glasgow Caledonian University and a post graduate qualification in Advanced Social Work Studies from Strathclyde University. Neil lives in Glasgow and has one daughter, age 13.

Director of Support Services - Maggie McManus
The Director of Support Services is a new post (introduced at the end of 2010) which has been introduced as part of SCRA's ongoing organisational change process. Maggie's role is to integrate, lead and manage a range of support functions in Head Office.

 

Senior Operational Manager - Tom Philliben
Tom has been a Reporter since 1986, working in a number of authorities, before becoming Reporter Manager of South West Region in 1996 when SCRA was created. He is currently Senior Operational Manager for East and Central West areas. He  was also for a time Director of Operations and Acting Principal Reporter in Head Office.

Senior Operational Manager - Evelyn Grant
Evelyn became a Reporter in Strathclyde Region in 1985 after 6 years in social work. She moved to the Depute Regional Reporter’s post in Highland Region in 1988 before becoming Authority Reporter in Highland in 1996 at the time of reorganisation and the creation of SCRA. She remained as Authority Reporter in Highland until 2000, when she became Reporter Manager for North Region.  Evelyn is now Senior Operational Manager for North and West areas.

Head of Practice and Policy - Malcolm Schaffer
Malcolm has been a Reporter since 1974, firstly in Tayside and then Edinburgh. In 1996, Malcolm became Reporter Manager for the East Region where he was responsible for the planning, management and direction of regional operations to ensure the delivery of effective and high quality services to children and families.

In October 2009, Malcolm was appointed to the new post of Head of Practice and Policy - he has responsibility to lead, direct and develop practice and policy across SCRA, and to facilitate and nurture best practice across the service. Malcolm is also Programme Manager for SCRA’s Transition Programme, which aims to prepare SCRA for the transition to the new arrangements for the Children’s Hearings System.