Joseph Rowntree Foundation appoints two new trustees

Dame Mavis, a civil servant for almost 40 years, was Permanent Secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister between 2002 and 2005, and at the Cabinet Office for two years previously. During this time she had responsibility for major policies and programmes including housing, the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, and the Single Regeneration Fund, as well as for the Social Exclusion Unit. She currently chairs the Catalyst Housing Group.

Don Brand has spent more than 35 years working in the field of social care. After 20 years with local authority social services, he became Deputy Chief Inspector in the former Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. On moving to the National Institute for Social Work (NISW) in 1996, he was involved with the setting up of the General Social Care Council. He also has broad voluntary sector experience.

Sir William Utting, the Chair of Trustees, said, “We had a very strong response to our open advertisement.  We are delighted that Dame Mavis McDonald and Don Brand are joining the JRF Board of Trustees.  Their huge experience will be enormously valuable to us.”