Tony Morrison Memorial Conference – Contributor Biographical Details

Moira Gibb
Eileen Munro
Clark Baim
Colin Green
David Howe

Moira Gibb CBE, Chief Executive, London Borough of Camden

Moira Gibb joined Camden as Chief Executive in July 2003. Previously she was Executive Director, Housing and Social Services in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. She has worked in a number of local authorities, Ealing, Surrey and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in their Social Services departments in a variety of roles. She worked as a lecturer in social work at the then Preston Polytechnic, now the University of Lancashire. She was also a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics. Before training as a social worker at Edinburgh University, she was a teacher in the London Borough of Newham and in Brussels.

She is a graduate of Glasgow University. She was President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 2000/01 and was appointed CBE for Services to Social Services in the 2002 New Years Honours.

She has served on a number of bodies, including the Lifting the Burdens Task Force, is currently a Director of the London Marathon and sits on the board of the UK Statistics Authority. In 2009 she chaired the Government’s Social Work Task Force and is now chairing the Social Work Reform Board
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Eileen Munro

Eileen Munro is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She was a social worker for many years before taking up an academic career. She has studied philosophy, in particular the philosophy of science, and this has fuelled her interest in the reasoning skills needed in social work. Her current research interests are in how best to combine intuitive and analytic reasoning in risk assessment and decision making in child protection. She is also studying the role of the wider organisational system in promoting or hindering good critical thinking.
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Clark Baim

Clark Baim has twenty-two years of experience as a group facilitator and trainer. He is an Associate of In-Trac Training and Consultancy and has been part of the training team delivering the new NQSW Supervision programme for CWDC based on Tony’s work. Since 2000, Clark has been contracted as Co-Lead National Trainer for the Probation Service’s Sexual Offending Groupwork Programmes in England and Wales. He developed and co-delivered a course on attachment-based interviewing with Tony Morrison.
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Colin Green

Colin Green took up his post as Director of Children, Learning and Young People for Coventry City Council in January 2007. Immediately prior to taking up post Colin worked for the DfES for three years with policy lead for Safeguarding Children. Colin was also involved in a wide range of work across the Every Child Matters agenda and in advising the DfES on serious cases and other safeguarding matters.

Colin is a Social Worker by professional background. Coventry is the sixth Local Authority he has worked for. Over his career he has worked with all age groups and in a wide variety of practitioner and management roles. Prior to joining the DfES he was the Assistant Director for Children's Services in Cambridgeshire for nearly six years. Colin is also the Chair of the ADCS Families, Communities and Young People's Policy Committee.

Colin finds the role of Director of Children, Learning and Young People the most exciting and challenging job he has had to date.
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David Howe

Dr David Howe is Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Before his present university post, he practised as a child care officer in a Children Department and as a social worker. He has research interests in emotional development, developmental attachment theory, and child abuse and neglect. His more recent publications include On Being a Client: understanding the processes of counselling and psychotherapy (Sage 1993), Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice (Macmillan 1995), Patterns of Adoption: nature, nurture and psychosocial development (Blackwell Science 1998), Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support: a practice and assessment model (Macmillan 1999, with colleagues), Adoption, Search and Reunion: the long term experience of adopted adults (with Julia Feast, The Children’s Society 2000 and BAAF 2004), The Adoption Reunion Handbook (with Liz Trinder and Julia Feast, published by Wiley 2004), Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care (with Beth Neil, published by BAAF 2004), Child Abuse and Neglect: attachment, development and intervention (Palgrave/Macmillan 2005), The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker (Palgrave/Macmillan 2008), and A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory (Palgrave Macmillan 2009).

David Howe is the founding editor of the journal Child and Family Social Work and associate editor of the journal Attachment and Human Development.
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