Meet the team
Read about our Directors
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Laurie Gregory
Founder and Chairman
Qualified Social Worker and Manager with over 30 years’ experience of Local Government Social Services Departments, Laurie’s experience ranged from Social Worker to Deputy Director. He previously fostered a child with disabilities for a total of 13 years and has considerable involvement in a number of charities. Laurie previously worked with several independent fostering agencies before founding The FCC in 1999. He was Executive Director for the first ten years of the agency’s life.
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Ian Brazier
Executive Director
Ian is an ex army officer (34 years service all over the world and latterly Commanding Officer at Northwood HQ), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute with a Strategic Planning and Development Diploma from the Manchester Business School. He has wide ranging experience in both military and family welfare issues and joined FCC in 2009.
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Anne Bard
Director of Child Care England
Anne has a CQSW and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology gained in 1977. She has experience as a generic social worker and in fostering, as well as managing a Children and Families Team for nine years and a spell as an Independent Reviewing Officer. She achieved an MBA in 2004, prior to joining The Foster Care Co-operative.
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Sian Hopkins
Director of Child Care Wales
Sian joined the FCC in 2006 as Director of Child Care in Wales. After qualifying as a social worker in 1983, Sian worked initially in adult mental health. Then for 20 years she worked in LA Children's Services - as social worker and manager of an inner city child care team and latterly as a Child Protection Co-ordinator in Cardiff.
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Fionna Miskelly
Director of Child Care Scotland
Fionna joined the FCC in February 2011 to set up and manage our Scottish office. She has 26 years of experience of professional social work in Scotland. She has worked in the independent fostering sector and was involved in setting up an agency from scratch. Her experience is largely in child care and child protection, working latterly as Head of Safeguarding at the Church of Scotland.
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Giles Staddon
Deputy Director of Child Care England
Giles has a DipSW/DipHE gained in 1998 and the PQCCA and BPhil (Childcare) gained in 2003. He has nine years’ experience in residential child care, four years’ experience in Children and Families Team work and for seven years has worked in fostering, the last three in management roles.
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Derek Clode
Regional Manager Wales
Derek is both a qualified teacher (late 70s) and social worker (1988). As a social worker, he has worked in Child & Family/Child Protection, Fostering and Adoption in Cardiff, Caerphilly and the Newydd Fostering Project, Action for Children (formerly NCH) between 2002 and 2010. He became Regional Manager for Wales in August 2010.