In January 2021, we set up a group of national and international leaders to help guide the development of Scotland’s first Bairns Hoose. The group is called Delivering the Vision and it’s aims are:
- To provide strategic legal, policy and practice expertise and advice on the establishment and implementation of the Barnahus model for Scotland.
- To support the partnership to deliver the first Barnahus in Scotland, known as Bairns Hoose.
- To ensure that the rights of children and families to recovery support and participation in all decision-making will be respected, protected and fulfilled throughout the care, protection and justice processes.
The group meets every six months and the members are:
- Mary Glasgow, CEO Children First
- Bragi Guðbrandsson, Elected Member, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Dr Caroline Bruce, Operational head of programme for the National Trauma Training Programme, NHS Education for Scotland, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
- Iona Colvin, Chief Social Work Officer, Scottish Government
- Professor John Devaney, Centenary Chair of Social Work, University of Edinburgh
- Kathy Evans, Chief Executive, Children England
- Maria Galli, Legal Officer, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
- Anne Marie Hicks, Assistant Procurator Fiscal for North Strathclyde, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Scottish Prosecution Service)
- Alistair Hogg, Head of Practice and Policy, SCRA
- Kate Rocks, Chief Officer of Health and Social Care in Inverclyde
- Marsha Scott, Chief Executive, Scottish Women’s Aid
- Betsy de Thierry, Founding Director of the Trauma Recovery Centre, UK
- Kate Wallace, Chief Executive, Victim Support Scotland
- Anna O’Reilly, Assistant Director Bairns Hoose, Children First
- Anne-Marie Hicks, Assistant Procurator Fiscal, Crown Office and Prosecutor Fiscal Service, North Strathclyde
- Sheriff David Mackie
- Jane McCarren, DI, Police Scotland
- June Peebles, DCI, Police Scotland
- Dr Louise Hill, Head of Policy, Evidence & Impact, Children First
- Dr Mary Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Edinburgh
- Danielle McLaughlin, Head of Implementation, Operations Directorate, Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service
- Dr Eddie Doyle, Medical Advisor, Paediatrics, Scottish Government
- Dr Marianne Forrester, Unit Clinical Director Combined Child Health & Lead Paediatrician for Child Protection and Adoption and Fostering
- Fraser McKinlay, The Promise
- Joanna MacDonald, Deputy Social Work Office, Scottish Government
- Lesley Boal, Formerly Police Scotland, Volunteer/Advisory role, Children First
- Lesley Swanson, Bairns’ Hoose Unit, Scottish Government
- Val de Souza, Independent Chair of the Bairns Hoose Governance group
- Caroline Kelly, Executive Assistant, Bairns Hoose, Children First (secretariat)
