Celia Atherton, Director of Social Justice, Dartington Hall Trust

Claire Bruin, Service Director (Adult Social Care), Cambridgeshire County Council

Olive Carroll, Director of Personal Social Care, Lancashire County Council

Peter Hay, Strategic Director, Adults and Communities, Birmingham City Council

Ray Jones, Professor of Social Work , Kingston University

George Julian, Director, research in practice for adults

Martin Knapp, Professor of Social Policy (LSE); and Professor of Health Economics (IoP); Director (PSSRU; CEMH; NIHR SSCR), London School of Economics

Carol Lupton, Policy Research Programme, Department of Health

Dawn Warwick, Director of Adult Social Services, London Borough of Wandsworth