THE government on Wednesday (19) announced the appointments of three new board members of the Children and Family Court Support Service (Cafcass), including economist Rohan Sivanandan.
The other two members who have been appointed as board members include Helen Jones and Eileen Munro.
The new board members will serve Cafcass for a term of four years from April 1, 2020.
Sivanandan worked as an economist and senior executive in the private sector before moving into the education field.
He worked across all phases of education, including as an education chief officer. Subsequently, Sivanandan set up his own consultancy specialising in organisational development, training and leadership coaching.
He has been a school governor, trustee, director of a children’s charity, an arts charity trustee, a BAME mentor and sports coach.
Currently, he is a magistrate in criminal and family court; chairs panels on the Lord Chancellor’s Magistrates’ Advisory Committee for London.
He is also an independent member of the Greater London Authority on Mayoral appointments.
Sivanandan chairs mental health hearings and is an awards assessor for the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence.
Munro is an emeritus professor of social policy at the London School of Economics. Professor Munro has written extensively on how to improve reasoning in child protection work, covering how best to combine intuitive and analytic reasoning, as well as the importance of understanding how the organisational system influences workers’ actions.
Jones is an experienced risk, compliance and regulatory policy practitioner, with both public and commercial cross sectoral experience in financial services and non-executive experience in social housing, services for children and young people and occupational pensions.
