Mary MacLeod OBE
Mary MacLeod OBE was appointed as Independent Board Member in January 2010.
She is an independent family policy adviser and a leading voice on children and family welfare. She was the founding chief executive of the Family and Parenting Institute. Formerly of Barnardo’s, Lothian Region Social Work Department, ChildLine and the Universities of Edinburgh and North London, she has written widely about child and family welfare.
Mary has been a board member of the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority, the Family Justice Council, and numerous government and non-government research and policy advisory groups on children and families, including the DCSF Assessment Panel on the effects of Commercialisation on Children and the DCSF advisory group on private fostering, which she chaired.
She is an Executive Board Member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, Chair of Gingerbread, chair of the Advisory Group of Safenetwork, a board member of the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Service and a non-executive director of the Video Standards Council and of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.
Mary was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University and an OBE for services to children and families in 2008.
