ADVISORY BOARD Tim Banfield Tim is an experienced senior professional benefiting from wide exposure to both strategic and operational public sector project delivery and defence acquisition issues in a professional services environment. Expertise including a wide range of skills, specifically in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis of complex issues. An excellent negotiator with experience…
ADVISORY BOARD David Werran David Werran spent nearly 40 years in the civil service, spanning six Government Departments, Agencies and NDPBs at a variety of UK locations. A specialist in human resources and industrial relations he acted as project director for three major Civil Service relocations out of London during the 1980s and 1990s to…
ADVISORY BOARD Eliot Ward Eliot Ward is a chartered surveyor with over 28 years of experience working on all aspects of commercial property and urban regeneration. Eliot began his career in 1989 with Grimley JR Eve in Birmingham where he specialised in industrial property portfolio management, development and agency work. He joined English Partnerships, the…
ADVISORY BOARD Simon Lydiard Simon Lydiard is a former senior civil servant, with a 38 year career spanning several government departments and specialisms. He joined the civil service at the most junior grade and worked his way up, attaining senior civil service rank eight years before he left. Having started as a general administrator, Simon…
ADVISORY BOARD Steve Atkinson Steve spent the whole of his 39 year career in local government; starting in his home town of Preston in 1978 and working in locations as disparate as Cumbria, Pembrokeshire and two District Councils in the East Midlands. The last twelve years were as Chief Executive for Hinckley and Bosworth Borough…
TEAM MEMBER Dr Jon Bashford BBI Research Director Jon is an experienced senior manager, researcher and teacher with over 30 years’ experience working in health, social care and education in the public, independent and voluntary sectors. He is particularly known for his work on mental health, veterans, drug and alcohol use, offender health and equality…
REPORT AUTHOR Professor The Lord Patel of Bradford OBE Lord Patel, a social worker by background, initially worked in inner city Bradford and then established a number of Third Sector agencies working with those misusing drugs and those with mental health problems; later moving into academia working with a number of universities. He entered the…