Chair of the VCSE Review
Alex Fox is CEO of Shared Lives Plus, the UK network for Shared Lives and Homeshare. Members include 5,000 Shared Lives carers who share their homes and family life with people who need support and 160+ local organisations. Alex helps lead on Building Community Capacity for the Think Local, Act Personal partnership and was the co-lead on prevention for the social care White Paper engagement exercise. He is a member of NHS England’s Integrated Personal Commissioning board. He was one of Nesta and The Observer’s Britain’s New Radicals. He is a trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and VoiceAbility.
Alex is an Honorary Assistant Professor at Nottingham University, Research Associate at ResPublica and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), for which he edited The New Social Care. He has a regular column for Local Government Chronicle, blogs at http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com/ and tweets as @AlexSharedLives.
Advisory Group
| Name | Organisation |
| Mark Winter | ACEVO |
| Lindsay Marsden | Big Lottery Fund |
| Daria Kuznetsova | Big Society Capital |
| Louise Beatty /Alex Ankrah / David Knott | Cabinet Office |
| Sian Lockwood | Community Catalysts |
| Helen Walker | Department of Health |
| Vandna Gohil | Health Watch Leicester |
| Sarah Mitchell | LGA |
| Paul Streets / Caroline Howe | Lloyds Bank Foundation |
| Jeremy Taylor | National Voices |
| Charlotte Ravenscroft | NCVO |
| Anu Singh/ Olivia Butterworth / Rachel Pearce | NHS England |
| Catherine Davies | Public Health England |
| Jabeer Butt | Race Equality Foundation |
| Carol Candler / Jane Hartley | Regional Voices |
| Alex Fox (chair) | Shared Lives Plus |
| Dan Gregory / Nick Temple | Social Enterprise UK |
| Ben Smith | Voluntary Action LeicesterShire |
| Rhidian Hughes | Voluntary Organisations Disability Group |
The advisory group are supported by a secretariat:
| Name | Organisation |
| Andie Michael/ Alison Powell | Department of Health |
| Marcia Johnson/ Tracy Beedle | Department of Health |
| Angie Macknight (programme manager) | NCVO |
| Emma Easton | NHS England |
| Amy Sinclair/ Judith White | Public Health England |
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