Honorary officers
There are three honorary officers, elected by the full
membership:
Dame Gillian Pugh, Chair
Dame Gillian Pugh retired in 2005 as Chief Executive of Coram
Family, a leading children’s charity which aims to develop and
promote best practice in the care and support of very vulnerable
children and their families. She is an advisor to the
Department of Children, Schools and Families and has recently been
working with the Local Government Association to support the
implementation of the new children’s agenda through the Narrowing
the Gap project. Gillian is a member of the Children’s
Workforce Development Council, and is on the Board of the Training
and Development Agency for Schools. She is visiting Professor
at the Institute of Education, an advisor to the House of Commons
Select Committee for children, schools and families, and chair of
the advisory group for the two year national review of primary
education. She was awarded the DBE in 2005 for services to
children and families. She was elected chair of NCB on 23
November 2006 and re-elected for a further term of office on 26
November 2009.
Jane Held, Vice Chair
Jane Held took retirement from local government service in April
2004 and is now running her own consultancy company. She was
Director of Social Services in Camden before retiring and
previously Director in Southend on Sea. She was also co-chair
of the Children and Families Committee of the Association of
Directors of Social Services for three years. She served on
the NSF CAMHS External Working Group. She was a founding
member of the Inter-Agency Group (IAG). During that period she
was co-author of Serving Children Well, the discussion paper that
stimulated Every Child Matters, and was responsible for
negotiations on ECM with DCSF in her ADSS role. She has 28
years’ experience in social care and has a national reputation and
profile as a child care expert.
David Rimington, Treasurer
David is married with two adult children. He has worked as an
accountant in the commercial sector for most of his career. He has
served as a trustee for Together Working for Well-being, a mental
health services charity of a similar size to NCB, and is still
a trustee of its pension fund. He has also undertaken work for
the homelessness charity Shelter and is involved with young people
as secretary of his local canoe club.