Colin Reid
Biography
Colin has an Honours degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Social Work (Queens University Belfast) qualifying as a social worker in 1987. He went on to obtain a post graduate certificate in Social Welfare Law and spent the first part of his career working in local authority statutory family and childcare in several roles and was a social work team leader for 5 years.
Colin moved to NSPCC in 1999 in a policy and public affairs role and had a particular interest in vetting and barring policy and legislation at the NI Assembly and Westminster. He did a part time secondment for a year to the Office of the First and Deputy First Ministers’ (OFMDFM) Children’s Unit in 2010.
Colin served as a Board member of the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) 2005-2013, NI’s Health and Social Care Regulator and as a member of the Authority’s Audit Committee. He subsequently was appointed to the NI Food Advisory Committee of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for 2 terms. He is currently a member of Northern Ireland Social Care Council’s (NISCC) Fitness to Practice Committee and has recently been appointed as a lay member of the Optical Regulators Board in the Republic of Ireland. Colin is also a school governor.
Colin was Deputy Chair and Chair of British Association of Social Workers in NI from 2014-2019 and is currently Head of Safeguarding Services at the Education Authority.
Co-opted member of Quality, Finance and Performance Committee
Co-opted members of Committees work alongside the non-executive directors, including the chairman.
They share responsibility with the board members for the success of the organisation.
There are required to bring expertise and experience from a social work / local authority safeguarding / other relevant experience and Northern Ireland independent and objective judgement to bear on issues of strategy, service improvement, performance, and resources.
Key responsibilities to:
- Consider committee papers and participate in all committee meetings to help the committee fulfil its purpose which is set out in its present terms of reference as
DBS board members are appointed following open and fair competition and in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments are for an initial period of 3 years, with the possibility of re-appointment.