Wesley Cuell

18 April 2023

Wes has over 40 years of experience working in social care, mostly in local authorities including Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Luton where he was Head of Service. He worked  for the NSPCC from 2004 to 2011 as Director of Services for Children and Young People.

He has a special interest in safeguarding and in the provision of support vulnerable children and families. He has chaired Local Children’s Safeguarding Boards and was a Board member of the Child Exploitation and On-Line Protection Service. Wes was Chair of the Hertfordshire Adoption Panel and has a lifelong interest in all aspects of adoption having been adopted as a child. He is Chair of the Board of the Oxford Diocesan Council for Social Work (Parents and Children Together) and has experience as a Trustee of the Church of England Children’s Society and the Papworth Trust.