Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

About the Board

The Adoption Leadership Board (ALB) was established in 2014 to provide leadership to the adoption system and drive improvements in performance. In 2018 the Board became the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB), with a remit to cover previously looked after children subject to adoption or special guardianship orders. Coram-i is contracted by the DfE to provide a management and secretariat service for the ASGLB from 1 July 2019.

The ASGLB is made up of representatives from the adoption and permanence system in England and is chaired by Krish Kandiah, who was appointed by the Education Secretary in December 2020. A list of the current Board members can be found below.

Any information published by the Board will be made available via this site, so keep checking it for updates. In particular, we will publish analysis of the quarterly data returns on adoption and special guardianship.

Board members

Name	Organisation	Position
Krish Kandiah	ASGLB	Chair
Steve Crocker	ADCS	President
Edwina Grant	ADCS	Chair of Health, Care and Additional Needs Policy Committee
Sue Armstrong-Brown	Adoption UK	Chief Executive
Claudia Megele	CAFCASS	Assistant Director for Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk
John Simmonds OBE	CoramBAAF	Director
Maggie Jones	CVAA	Chief Executive Officer
Fran Oram	DfE	Director of Children’s Social Care, Practice and Workforce
Cathy Ashley	Family Rights Group	Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Lucy Peake	Kinship	Chief Executive Officer
Satwinder Sandhu	IAC	Chief Executive Officer
Prof. Julie Selwyn	Rees Centre	Professor of Education and Adoption
Justice Frances Judd		Judicial Observer
Cllr Mark Sutton	LGA	Children and Young People Board Member – Staffordshire County Council
Jeremy Gleaden	Ofsted	Senior HMI

A diagram of the various components of the ASGLB is available to download