John joined Aberlour Child Care Trust as Director of Residential and Integrated Services in April 2006, moving from a post of Team Manager with the Care Commission. John worked in local authority child care services from 1986 to 1998 when he moved into regulation of care services before moving to work in the East Coast Area Health Board in Dublin in 2001. John returned to Scotland in 2003 and worked as Service Manager for Residential Services in Renfrewshire Council for a short time before moving to the Care Commission. John’s particular interests are around quality assurance and the role that children and young people play in developing care services.
John has now moved on to the post of Head of Standards and Safeguarding within Aberlour.