Charity changes begin at home

Changes have been announced to the Board of the Warren House Group at Dartington, the charity that supports the work of the Social Research Unit. Roger Bullock and Gillian Downham are standing down as trustees after serving their maximum terms.

Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol, Roger was one of the original members of the Social Research Unit when it was established at King’s College Cambridge in 1963, and was the Research Unit’s director at the time the new charity was formed.

He has been invited to attend future trustee meetings as a non-voting member, providing a link between the Unit’s past and future activities.

Gillian Downham is a barrister at Garden Court Family Law Chambers and has highly specialised experience as the chair of five independent mental health homicide inquiries. She remains a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at Dartington.

Both were founder trustees when the Warren House Group charity was formed in 2003.

These developments coincide with other significant Board changes designed to consolidate the Unit’s contribution to children’s well-being.