Dame Denise Platt DBE |
Chair |
 | Dame Denise was Chief Inspector of the Social Services
Inspectorate 1998-2004, and Director for Children, Older People and
Social Care Services at the Department of Health 2001-2003. Dame Denise was also Head of Social Services at the Local
Government Association and Director of Social Services at the
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. |
Paul Snell |
Chief Inspector |
 | Paul Snell was appointed Chief Inspector in August 2006. Prior
to this he was our Business Director for Inspection, Regulation and
Review and a member of the senior management board. Paul was previously Director of Social Services for Nottingham
City Council where he established the new social services
department. He also acted as Director of Housing and Acting Chief
Executive. |
John Knight |
Commissioner |
 | John Knight has extensive personal experience of using social
care services. His professional knowledge has been gained through a career in
local government, the Department of Health and as Head of Policy
with the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. |
Professor Jim Mansell |
Commissioner |
 | Jim Mansell is Professor of Learning Disability in the Tizard
Centre at the University of Kent. A pioneer of deinstitutionalisation and community living, he is
a trustee of United Response, a disability and mental health
charity. He was a member of the National Care Standards Commission. |
Olu Olasode |
Commissioner |
 | Olu Olasode is a public service productivity and strategic
finance consultant, and chief executive of TL First Consulting. He is a non-executive director of Bromley Primary Care Trust and
also chairs the General Performance Panel of the Office of the
Deputy Prime Minister's Beacon Council Panel. |
Peter Westland CBE |
Commissioner |
 | Peter Westland was formerly Director of Social Services for the
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He was previously with the National Care Standards
Commission (NCSC) since its inception in 2001, but now represents
the Commission for Social Care Inspection which replaced the NCSC
in 2004. He is a member and former Chair of Action on Elder Abuse, a
national voluntary organisation. |
Beryl Seaman CBE |
Commissioner |
 | Beryl Seaman is a former Chair of the South Yorkshire Probation
Board and the Probation Boards Association. Her background is as a social worker in children's and adults'
services, and she has been a magistrate since 1986. She serves as a Commissioner with the Legal Services Commission,
and is a member of the Interim Strategy Board set up to establish
the new Ofsted. |