Lyn Romeo - Elected Director
Lyn has been a qualified as a social worker for over 40 years. She practiced as a frontline social worker and team leader working in hospital social work, child and family social work, mental health services, learning disability services and older people’s services. She has also worked as a residential worker with children and young people and was a Social Services inspector with the then regulator, SSI. She was the Director of Adult Social Care in the London Borough of Camden and most recently the Chief Social Worker for Adults in the Department of Health and Social Care.
Lyn stepped from the Chief Social Worker post at the end of January 2024 and is keen to continue to contribute to supporting social work practice and social workers to provide the best quality support to people drawing on social work support.
Russell Hogarth - Co-opted Non-Director Experts by Experience
Russell Hogarth is an Honorary Fellow and Community Engagement Ambassador in residence at the University of Central Lancashire. Russell chairs the UCLan Honorary Fellow advisory group and the EU award winning international Creative Communities Group. www.ccguk.orgHe also chairs the Lancashire Creative Commonwealth Association for Lord Shuttleworth.
He ran his own successful business for 25 years before entering the world of academia and community engagement. Russell is a University guest lecturer, High School and Academy enterprise advisor and a EU virtual VET ambassador. Russell is a philanthropist and social entrepreneur, and his area of special interest is lifelong learning and active citizenship. He also advises on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Russell’s work has been published on a number of occasions and his 2015 MacMillan Palgrave publication, titled Creative Education, Teaching and Learning is often quoted as a pathway to inclusion and accessible education. Russell is a social entrepreneur mentor for UnLtd and a trustee for Creativity Works Preston. He's also an entrepreneur in residence at the UCLan Lancashire School of Business and Enterprise.
He is an advisor to the British Association of Social Workers and a trustee for the BASW charitable foundation trust. Russell is a former director for the design in mental network and an advisor to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Russell is a senior fellow and the C.E.O for the national forum for health and wellbeing. He is also a patron for the inclusive dance group ‘DanceSyndrome’. His expertise in education, health and wellbeing, entrepreneurship, lifelong learning and active citizenship is now recognised both nationally and internationally.
