Our Board of Trustees:

Lawrence Greenberg is the chair of our Board. He is an independent consultant involved in a range of projects, both short and long term as well as undertaking commissions as a mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator. He was previously the Chief Executive and founder of The Dispute Service, a not-for-profit company established in 2004 to provide dispute resolution and complaints handling in the private rented residential sector. Before that Lawrence was the General Manager of Independent Housing Ombudsman Limited. He has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors for organisations such as the Department of the Environment, Unilever and the Housing Corporation. He was Chair of the Parchment Housing Group until the culmination of its merger with the Guinness Housing Trust.

Lawrence is an Accredited Mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator, as well as having degrees in social science and town planning. For ten years he was a Justice of the Peace. He is currently an Associate of the Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton and Chair of the London Borough of Enfield Standards Committee.

Max Bullough is the deputy chair of our Board, and chair of our Business Subcommittee. He is the Head Teacher of the Hayling College (11-16 mixed comprehensive on Hayling Island). He has had experience as a Director of Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Education Business Partnership (six years), as a Director and then a Trustee, on attaining charitable status, of the Central Southern Connexions Service (four years) and served for ten years as a member of the Corporation of Havant College. He has been an experienced facilitator for the British Council’s International Programme for Headteachers.

He is now a qualified facilitator for the National College of School Leadership’s International Leadership Learning Programme. He also works for the Hampshire Teacher and Learning College as a facilitator for their Future Changemakers’ programme and as an assessor for their Leadership Assessment.

Gill Scaife is a retired social worker and has worked in the statutory sector as generic social worker and at a Family Centre. Since retirement she has been involved in practice teaching, as well as being tutor/assessor on the practice teachers’ course for Southampton University. She has also been an assessor on the P.Q. Child Care Programme for Portsmouth and Bournemouth Universities. Gill has worked as a self employed FGC coordinator, and so is very familiar with our work. She has been very helpful in assisting us to produce documents such as our Child Protection Policy.

Peter Bradley is the chair of our Practice Subcommittee. He currently works s Director of Academic Development and Quality in the School of Health and Social Care at Oxford Brookes University. His background is in social work as a practitioner and educator, focussing on and working primarily with children and their families and carers. He has been with Daybreak as a Trustee since 2000. He has helped us to be rigorous in thinking through the practice of our work. He has especially contributed to our work with Family Rights Group and the Accreditation of FGC coordinators via the University of Chester course. He and Gill are both taking a keen interest in the Accreditation Route via the Open College Network.

Geraldine Petrou has participated in a family group conference arranged for her granddaughter. She is a powerful ambassador for family group conferences, and has presented at various professional events in their support. She has an educational background, having worked as a teacher.

Julie Freemantle is our Treasurer and is a Chartered Accountant with more than 10 years post qualification experience. She has worked for two international accountancy practice firms whose clients have included many charities. She is currently taking a career break from full-time work to bring-up her family. However, she has continued to work part-time, on a self-employed basis, marking exam scripts and giving feedback to accountancy students. She has also been a Non-Executive Director of a local Housing Association and a member of their Group Audit Committee.

Claire Ryan:

Our Daybreak Managers:

Lis Gohrisch – Daybreak manager for our child welfare work in Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, and in Portsmouth. She is a qualified social worker and practice teacher. She has been involved in FGCs since the early nineties as a practitioner, trainer and manager. She also has experience of working with FGCs and domestic violence.

Richard Chalmers – Daybreak manager for our child welfare work in Bournemouth and Poole and in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He also co-managers our work using FGCs to address domestic violence in Bournemouth and Poole. Alongside this Richard is also setting up and managing our national programme that enables the purchase of individual FGC referrals. Richard has a background in the world of commerce, and also in residential social work. He is a very experienced FGC coordinator, as well as manager and trainer, and has a special interest in advocacy to ensure that the voices of children are heard in their meeting.

Alison Powney – Daybreak manager for our work to address domestic abuse and violence. Alison has many years experience in work to address domestic violence and abuse. She is leading the development of our training in this field, and has a Daybreak wide remit for consultancy about FGCs and domestic violence. She is the manager of our Daybreak Dove programmes in Basingstoke.

Linda Tapper – Daybreak manager for our work with vulnerable adults. Linda is a very experienced FGC coordinator, manager and trainer, and also does advocacy work with children and adults. She has led our work in pioneering the use of FGC to address elder abuse, and is now leading the development of the use of FGC for all aspects of safeguarding for vulnerable adults of any age.”

Our Team at Head Office:

Marilyn Taylor is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Daybreak. She has qualifications in social work and probation, in Voluntary Sector organisation, and in adult training. She has been employed as a practitioner, manager and trainer in social work and in family group conferencing in both the statutory and voluntary sectors. She has worked in England and in Canada. She has been involved with family group conferences since 1992 as an independent co-ordinator, trainer and manager, and is an accredited FGC coordinator from the university of Chester. She has presented at many Conferences for FGCs in this country, Europe and the USA.

Catherine Hasted is our Chief Operating Officer.

Rod Dale is our finance manager. He is an experienced accountant, having worked previously in manufacturing, a charity (St John’s Ambulance) and in the NHS. He currently divides his time between working for us and for a local care home as a care assistant.

Julie Ellis is our Senior Administrator. She has a wide range of secretarial and administrative experience, and has experience of running her own business which complements her interest in all things equine. She has undertaken our FGC coordinator course, and works also as an Independent Coordinator for Daybreak.

Kate Barker is our Administrative/Finance Assistant based at our Fair Oak Head Office. She has worked within the admin/finance area for about 9 years before joining Daybreak in 2009. She has two young boys, 3 years and 18 months, who certainly help keep her busy. She is looking forward to progressing her knowledge base and experience within Daybreak.

Andrea Dyde is our Senior Practitioner working in Portsmouth, covering our Child Welfare work and our pilot using community conferences to address anti-social behaviour. She comes from a nursing and health visiting background, where she has worked for many years. She studied law as a mature student and gained a legal degree and postgraduate diploma in Family Law. She worked in Health Service Management and Quality Improvement before becoming an advocate and training as a Family Group Conference Coordinator. She is passionate about respecting families and their abilities to problem solve.

Our team based in our Brighton office:

Becky Bevis is our Administrative Assistant based in Brighton, and is an experienced administrator. Becky has undertaken our FGC coordinator course, and now works also as an Independent Coordinator for Daybreak.

Rachel Barry is our Senior Practitioner based in Brighton. Rachel is a very experienced FGC coordinator, who brings a wide range of knowledge and experience of working in the voluntary sector to this post. Rachel has experience of working with HIV/aids, mental health and domestic violence as well as management experience.

Alex Baldwin: Has worked as an independent co-ordinator for Daybreak for a number of years. She has experience of FGC’s in Brighton and Hove, West Sussex and Portsmouth. Her background is in Training specialising in Children and Young People’s Education. She is temporarily acting as Senior Practitioner in Brighton.

Our Senior Practitioners in West Sussex are:

Zed Wolde-Lule (based in Crawley, Horsham and Haywards Heath) has been an independent FGC Coordinator since 2005. Since 1991 she has worked with children and families in London and Brighton for several Charities; BME Community Projects, Mental Health Initiative and Children and Young People Services. She is a qualified B.A.C.P Counsellor and Trainer. Previously she has also worked as a Community Development Worker and Support Worker. Zed is passionate about empowering children and families.

June Wilby (based in Worthing and Littlehampton) facilitates Child Welfare and safeguarding FGCs. She.has been working as a co-ordinator for Daybreak for 6 years. Her background includes working in Education with Children with challenging behaviour. She worked for 8 years in a Children and family Centre for Social Services. She is an experienced therapeutic Counsellor and has worked in a G.P.Practice and in a Hospice.