SPOTLIGHT
Held in trust:
Meet our board By Angela Ward
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t thirtyone:eight we are very fortunate to have a dedicated and passionate board of trustees, who support our team with the legal requirements of running a charity, as well as working with the management team on our strategic direction. As you’ll discover, our trustees bring with them a range of experience and skills:
methods - having to weigh Article 8 rights (Privacy) against more significant rights. This was relevant to the Records Disclosure work in respect of non-conviction/caution information.” Andrew says he has got his sense of ‘right and justice’ from his faith. “Romans 13 has long meant a lot to me, coupled with the attitude of Jesus to children and the vulnerable - he had a very dim view of those who harmed them,” he explains.
Andrew C Pierce Chair of trustees
In his retirement, Andrew makes sure his diary is busy. In addition to his role at thirtyone:eight, he is a Board member (safeguarding lead) for a Multi-Academy Trust in North Devon, he’s involved in running a café at his church and he’s the teaboy for the parent and toddler group there on Fridays. He also enjoys spending time with his five grandsons and one granddaughter and says he’s living up to the ambition he set himself when the first was born nearly 18 years ago ‘to be a mischievous Grandad!’.
The chair of our trustees is Andrew C Pierce, who formally joined the Board in May 2018. “I’m enjoying the role of Chair over the years chairing is what I’ve done a lot of,” he explains. In addition to chairing meetings, Andrew says his role involves interaction with the CEOs, ‘usually briefly, usually weekly’. He adds: “A ‘little and often’ approach works well for them and me.”
Bridget Robb Vice-Chair of Trustees
Andrew brings to the Board his experience of working in the police. “I retired from Devon & Cornwall Constabulary (as it was then known) in 2004 as a Detective Superintendent,” he explains. “During my time, I held the lead for the police in what we’d now call safeguarding and, with an ACO Probation, I set up the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in Devon & Cornwall.”
Bridget Robb was until recently a registered social worker and was Social Work Manager in Oxfordshire Local Authority. “I was CEO of the British Association of Social Workers (the UK professional membership body) and General Secretary of the Social Workers Union,” she explains. “Having come from a UK organisation, I am well attuned to the issues
Andrew continues: “I had oversight of ‘records disclosure’ which would now be routed through DBS, while I also led on Human Rights related matters in respect of covert investigative
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