ADCS announces 2018/19 president
Neil Puffett
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The head of children's services in East Sussex will be the 2018/19 president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, it has been announced.
Stuart Gallimore, who was previously director of children's services in West Sussex before taking over in East Sussex in April 2014, will be vice president in 2017/18, and, in line with the constitution of the ADCS, will go on to take over as president of the organisation in April 2018.
Current vice president Alison Michalska, director of children's services in Nottingham, will become president for 2017/18 when she takes over the role from Dave Hill in April.
Hill said: "I am pleased that Stuart will be taking up the important and wide-ranging role of ADCS vice president in April.
"Now more than ever the sector needs strong leadership to give voice to the challenges facing children and young people and I am confident that he will rise to the challenge."
Having qualified as a social worker in 1984, Gallimore worked in Cheshire, North Yorkshire and Bradford before relocating to East Sussex in 2000.
After four years with East Sussex County Council, he became assistant director of children's services at Portsmouth City Council and most recently served West Sussex County Council as deputy director, then director of children's services, before returning to East Sussex in 2014.
He is also a trustee of two children's charities - the SSAFA, which provides in-house health and welfare services to serving military personnel and their families, and Children on the Edge, which works to restore the rights of children from fragmented communities in countries including Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Burma and Thailand.
Gallimore is currently chair of the ADCS standards, performance and inspection committee.
