About Us
Mark Lloyd BA (Hons), MA, CQSW, DMS
Registered with the General Social Care Council
Associate Consultant for the National Care Forum
Mark Lloyd brings extensive senior management and consultancy experience gained over the past twenty years in the Adult Social Care field. As a former Executive Director for three national not for profit adult social care providers Mark offers expertise in the strategic and operational delivery of services within a rapidly changing market place; having recently delivered the introduction of the personalisation and re-ablement agenda for one of the pilot County Councils.
During the 1990′s Mark introduced Community Care Changes for the London Borough of Bexley before leaving local government to become Director of Operations for the Learning Disability Organisation the Avenues Trust and delivering a number of hospital re-provision programmes. In 1999 Mark became Chief Executive of Ashley Homes, one of the Country’s largest housing association care and support businesses. During his six years he delivered major growth in innovative new older care schemes including the award winning PFI development for the London Borough of Greenwich involving the design, build, and management of new Neighbourhood Resource Centres. Major stock transfers included the transfer of the former Redbridge Care homes.
In 2005 Mark joined the Kent Community Housing Trust overseeing the development of a number of specialist dementia schemes and working closely with the South East Dementia Centre at Christ Church College, Canterbury. During this time Mark had a number of specialist articles on older care published within both the Housing and Community Care Press. Mark has also become an Eden Alternative Associate, a model which looks to address the issues of isolation in old age within care homes.
As Mark Lloyd Associates Limited Mark entered consultancy in 2007 generating a wide profile of clients within his first year across local government, NHS, PFI Construction, and the Voluntary sector.
Mark has enjoyed a high national profile with Mike Walsh in the delivery of the country’s first Local Authority Trading Company (LATC) for Adult Social Care on behalf of Essex Council. The transfer of the complete Adult Social Care Division in 2009 represented a complete change of culture, business focus, and market positioning of the services allowing them to compete successfully in the commercial world. At the same time Mark led on the management and development of a new Reablement Service which has seen the former domiciliary care business converted into a short term intensive team providing support to enable people to move towards independence. Results have been extremely encouraging, with the service shortlisted for the Department of Health and NHS 2009 Health and Social Care Awards and Mark speaking at several Community Care Conferences and Webinars on the reablement agenda. Mark continues as a retained consultant for Essex Cares.
Mark is also Chair of the Inspire Community Trust a Charity created by Bexley Council to deliver the personalisation and direct payments agenda for the local community. www.inspirecommunitytrust.org
Mike Walsh, BA(hons), MSc, CQSW, MSP.
Registered with the General Social Care Council
Mike Walsh brings extensive senior management, consultancy and interim management experience in both Adult Social Care and Health settings. Mike has a wide ranging experience of successful change management projects within the health and social care sector that have had impressive impacts on business, service, and workforce redesign and development whilst at the same time producing multi-million pound efficiencies and savings. Most recently this has been in the context of the Putting People First Concordat – Modernization and Personalization agenda in one of the largest Local Authorities in England and Wales.
Mike trained as a social worker at the London School of Economics combining his CQSW with a postgraduate degree in Social Policy and Administration. He initially worked within the Probation Service before choosing to experience the different facets of social care moving through the development of Community Care within senior management positions in Assessment, Provider Services and into joint health and social care development where he has straddled the Health and Social Care divide in joint and co-located positions.
Mike moved into the world of consultancy and interim management in early 2006 and in that time has mainly helped Essex County Council modernize its provider services, develop new services and more recently manage a Programme to transfer its provider services into one of the first care related Local Authority Trading Companies; preparing it for the impact and advent of Personal Budgets recently introduced into Essex and thereby ensuring the survival of important and popular quality services. During this time he has also worked successfully in achieving a £30m bid for social care PFI credits and a successful communications strategy to facilitate the closure of the County’s Learning Disability Residential Homes with a reprovision to tenancy based supported living.
Mike’s enthusiastic, committed and ‘can do’ approach to projects is well received and has a proven track record in achieving the desired results. His ability to work with and manage the politics/Politics within the complex world of health and social care has been essential in achieving the impressive outcomes in the projects and Programmes that he has managed.
Mike’s partnership with Mark Lloyd has proved to be effective and complementary and has led to the development of Care and Health Solutions Ltd a company not only to create solutions to your requirements but also with the skills to safely and effectively implement them. Mike has the experience of taking on failing organizations and successfully moving them into improved and thriving services.
Mike is a qualified and registered Programme Manager.
Russell Thompson
With over 25 years of experience as a Finance Director in the Commercial Sector and 5 years as a Consultant in the Public Sector Russell is uniquely qualified to meet the demands of managing the externalisation of Local Authority Services.
In his 25 year career Russell has managed the start-up or relocation of 5 Service Management Companies ranging from a £3m Secondary Distributor in the Car Industry to an £11m Corporate Uniform Supplier. This experience has led to Russell’s specialism in the design and establishment of accounting functions and systems.
As an external consultant to Local Authorities Russell has been involved in PFI Bids and ERDF Grant Applications, LA Systems and Governance Reviews and introduced LA Financial Accounting systems.
Tasman Oxlade – MIT, MSP, PRINCE2, ITIL Service Manager
Tasman is a management consultant who has spent over 10 years focusing on large scale transformation programmes in the Local and Central Government, Defence, Transport and Investment Banking sectors. After moving his business to the UK from Australia 5 years ago he immediately established himself as a leading change director across a variety of business sectors. More recently, whilst assisting councils deliver the £684M efficiency savings within Adult Social Care as set out in the Gershon Efficiency Review, Tasman worked with other Central Government agencies to supply tools and resources to Local Authorities in preparation for implementing self-directed support.
He was Programme Director of the Putting People First Programme at Essex County Council, which included the introduction of self-directed support for all service users, one if the first Local Authorities to do so. Tasman is currently consulting for the National Director for Social Care Transformation on the National Putting People First Programme, who along with a consortium of ADASS, IDeA and LGA with support from the Department of Health, will support 150 Authorities across the country to deliver this challenging transformation agenda.