Commission Board
The Commission Board will determine and oversee the overall strategic direction of the Commission and evaluate performance. In addition to the Chair and Commissioner, the Board members are:
Deborah Absalom
Non-Executive Director
Deborah was, until earlier this year, the Director of Children and Young People's Services in the London Borough of Bexley. She was previously Deputy Chief Executive of Education in Leeds. Deborah also serves on the steering group of the London Directors of Children's Services and represents the Association of Directors of Children's Services on a number of national groups.
Rosemary Carter
Non-Executive Director
Rosemary is a consulting solicitor specialising in family law and an accredited mediator. She is currently a Board member of the Office for Legal Complaints and an independent member of the General Dental Council and of the RICS Surveyors Ombudsman Scheme Board. Rosemary is also a member of Resolution.
Bill Griffiths
Non-Executive Director
Bill is currently Chairman of the Forensic Science Service and at the Fire Service College. He also holds a number of other Non-Executive Director roles within DWP and at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Bill has previously held Non-Executive roles at the Child Support Agency, the Department for International Development and HM Revenue and Customs.
Alan Hardy
Finance & Commercial Director
Alan has been Finance and Business Assurance Director at the Child Support Agency since April 2006 and during this time has built up extensive knowledge about the child maintenance system, which he will be able to bring to the Commission.
Heather Jackson
Non-Executive Director
Heather is Managing Director of Actinista, a change management consultancy which she cofounded and co-runs. Heather has had several business change and operational roles at a senior level with a variety of organisations and sectors. These include: Chief Information Officer and Group IT Director for HBOS; IT and Change Director for Capital One UK and Europe; IT Director at Boots the Chemist; IT Director for George Clothing, Asda; and Head of business systems at Burton Group.
Susan Park
Corporate Affairs Director
Susan is responsible for the Commission’s high level strategy, policy and secondary legislation and management of external relationships. She was previously Strategy, Policy and Development Director at the Child Support Agency, and also spent two years as Operations Director. Prior to that, she was Principal Private Secretary to four successive Secretaries of State.
Ian Wright
Change Director
Ian is responsible for leading the programmes of change to establish the new regime for child maintenance in Great Britain and to continue to improve the existing schemes until they are replaced. After a career in Financial Services and Information Technology (IT), Ian joined the Agency in 2007 as a Programme Director and subsequently took on the roles of the IT Director and then Corporate Services Director.