Colin Beveridge Chair
Colin has been a Social Worker for over twenty-five years, and has worked in various parts of the UK for both Voluntary and Statutory agencies. He currently works for Barnardos in a short break scheme for disabled children in Perth & Kinross.
Colin has been involved with family-based short breaks for a number of years and remains convinced of the benefits this form of support can bring to disabled children and their families.
He has been involved with Shared Care Scotland for a number of years and believes that the organisation has an important role to play in the development of all forms of short breaks in Scotland.
Sue Barnard Deputy Chair
Background details will be posted shortly.
Philip Bryers Director
Philip is National Coordinator of the Scottish Dementia Working Group (whose members all have a diagnosis of dementia)
He retired from local government in 2001 after over 20 years in social work posts in the West of Scotland, latterly as Head of Community Care in North Ayrshire.
His training was in community work and social policy, and he worked as a lecturer on social work courses at York and Glasgow Universities between 1970-9.
David Eade Director
David became a respite carer by default when he was in the navy with his wife Helen, who is a paediatric nurse deciding she wanted to become involved in the Shared Care scheme in Helensburgh.
Thirteen years on David now works with the Side by Side scheme, run by Barnardos and Perth & Kinross Council. He is on the Side by Side committee and is also a volunteer with Rachel House children's hospice in his home town of Kinross, where Helen works on the care team.
Being in contact with both organisations gives David a good idea of the problems with accessing good, suitable respite care and the difficulties encountered during the transition from children's to adult services.
Silvie MacKenzie Advisor to Board on Business Development
Silvie is a Care Manager at Badaguish, where she has developed a programme of respite activity holidays, holiday play schemes and SQA accredited training courses, providing 400 places per year for people with a learning disability, locally, nationally and from across the Highlands.
Silvie is a trained social worker with over 20 years experience in residential care and therapy for people with disabilities. She has also organised, designed and delivered a variety of training to support front line workers in the voluntary care sector in the Highlands.
She is an active member of many voluntary and statutory community organisations and is committed to the importance of family support and to giving people with a disability and their carers a choice.
Elizabeth McDade Advisor to Board on Business and Finance
Elizabeth lives and works in Aberdeen City, predominantly in the voluntary sector. Her work over the last six years has involved health and social care issues most especially in the area of informal carers. Additionally Elizabeth is a Non-Executive Member of NHS Grampian Board. She currently serves, both locally and nationally, on a variety of voluntary and statutory committees relating to carers and respite issues, and chairs a number of these.
Prior to this Elizabeth's experience was in the offshore oil and gas industry where she spent several years as Personnel Manager for an offshore service company and had responsibility for several locations within the UK.
Louise Morgan Adviser to Board on Young Carers Issues
Elspeth Murray Director
Elspeth Murray is a freelance ‘poet and wordsmith’ with a background in anthropology, public health policy and health promotion. Elspeth joined the board of Shared Care Scotland following some work she was involved with as a poet in residence for their 2007 annual conference. She has worked in the NHS in patient and carer involvement in cancer care and as a poet in the field of mental health and is keen to raise awareness of the need
to listen to people’s experiences when developing services and policies.
Elspeth lives in Edinburgh with her husband, poet and puppeteer Richard Medrington.
Margaret Petherbridge Director
Margaret has experience of working within Community Care Services and in particular Implementation of Direct Payments Policy and managing a Short Breaks Bureau which arranges breaks for adults with disabilities. She is currently chair of the ADSW (Association of Directors of Social Work) Self Directed Care Group (previously Direct Payments). As part of this role she has participated in two Scottish Executive short working groups for Direct Payments.
As a trained nurse she also has many years of experience of working within health.
Vicky Wan Adviser to Shared Care Scotland on BME issues
Originally from Hong Kong, Vicky came to Edinburgh 10 years ago studying Social Sciences in University. Since then she lived and worked in Scotland. She developed great interests in working with Minority Ethnic communities when she was a professional interpreter. She is currently the Access Initiative Chinese Development Officer with MECOPP, responsible for developing the accessibility and the quality of mainstream daycare, residential respite and long term residential care for Chinese older people in Edinburgh. Prior to this, she had over 2 years experience with the Black Community Development Project, a voluntary organisation in North West Edinburgh, working as a Minority Ethnic Community Development Worker.
In a voluntary capacity, Vicky is a member of the Executive Committee of Edinburgh Chinese School.
Mary Yates Director
Mary manages the Share Project, which is a Family and Home Based respite/short break service for older people within the South Lanarkshire area. Mary has been in-
volved in developing this resource since its re-launch in August 1998. The project recruits volunteer carers who provide support both within their own homes and in the homes of older people. She is very much aware of the need to promote and develop alternative respite/short break services. Through the Project she has made a commitment to ensure that such alternative services are developed and promoted. Prior to coming to the Share Project, Mary managed a number of residential homes for older people, again within the South Lanarkshire Council Area. As a former member of Shared Care Scotland’s Interest Group for Older People, Mary is happy to support and pursue such issues through Shared Care Scotland.
Don has been with Shared Care Scotland since January 2006. Prior to this he was the Programme Director in Edinburgh for the international leadership organisation Common Purpose, and before this was 8 years with The Duke of Edinburgh's Award as Assistant then Deputy Director for Scotland. Don is a member of the Visiting Committee for Polmont Young Offenders Institution and a Board Director for GreenTeam, an Edinburgh based environmental education charity.
Lesley Gudgeon Administrator
Lesley started her career in administration after 10 years working as a hair stylist in her home town of Dunfermline. After completing her admin training at Lauder College, Fife she started work as an admin trainer for SAMH in Edinburgh before moving to the City of Edinburgh Council as an SVQ admin trainer/assessor. Wishing to work closer to home after the birth of her son, Lesley joined Shared Care Scotland in January 2004 and continues to enjoy the challenges her role brings.
Lesley currently lives in Crossford, near Dunfermline with her husband Mike who is a Policeman and their son Ewan. In her spare time she sings with a band and enjoys taking part in amateur musicals.
Liz Watret Administrative Assistant
Liz has been working at the Shared Care Scotland office for two years. Before having her children she worked in Edinburgh with Lothian Health Board’s computer services unit. Between 1993 and 2003, owing to her husband’s job, Liz and her family lived abroad in Texas and Belgium. The family all enjoyed the experience of life overseas but are now happily settled in Dunfermline.
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