The National Team works closely with the programme originators, TFC Consultants at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC), in a Network Partnership agreement. OSLC provides the National Team with consultancy, training and development materials. In turn the National Team provides these services and resources to the local project teams, offering:

• development support on implementation
• clinical consultation and support in the treatment model
• support for local and national evaluation and audit
• monitoring and guidance with regard to model adherence

This innovative method of project management includes formal reviews and feedback to the project teams, live and video supervision, and written feedback to ensure the teams are given optimum support in taking the programme forward. It represents in itself a further advance in the development of MTFC services in Europe.

As MTFC Network Partner, the National Team provides consultation to new teams wishing to develop the model for adolescents in the UK outside of the DCSF-funded pilot project.

National Implementation Team members:

Stephen Scott – Executive Director
BSc FRCP FRCPsych

Professor of Child Health and Behaviour; Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist; Head, National Specialist Conduct Problems Clinic; Head, National Specialist Adoption and Fostering Clinic; Director of Research, National Academy for Parenting Practitoners

After a degree in Psychology at Bristol University, Stephen Scott studied medicine at Cambridge University. He was then a Paediatrician for five years, including working with premature babies at the Royal London Hospital, and with psychosomatic cases at Great Ormond Street Hospital. After that he trained with Professor Sir Michael Rutter in Child Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital/Institute of Psychiatry, where he has worked ever since.

Rosemarie Roberts – Project Director
Cert.Ed, DipSW, CQSW, MSc.FT, Dip.FT, Dip. Systemic Management

Rosemarie Roberts is Director of the National Implementation Team for the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care in England programme (MTFCE). She is a consultant systemic family therapist, previously a social worker and a teacher, and has worked in education, social services and child and adolescent mental health services for over 30 years.

She joined the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in 1997, starting in research and clinical roles. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked for the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners as Research Lead for the Parenting Programme Evaluation Team, evaluating the quality, effectiveness and evidence base of parenting programmes used in the UK. She has managed the National Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care in England Programme since 2003. Her specialist interests are in parenting and the needs of children looked after.

Colin Waterman - Project Manager

BA (Hons), Dip SW, SW Practice Teacher Award, MSc FT.  UKCP Registered Systemic Psychotherapist & GSCC Registered Social Worker.   

Colin is the Project Manager with the MTFCE National Implementation Team and is based in Manchester, England.  He has been with the team since July 2007 and consults to sites using the MTFC-A and the MTFC-C programmes.  He supervises and manages the work of other staff within the National Implementation Team.  Prior to this he worked in Leeds co-ordinating a joint Social Care and CAMHS initiative focusing on the mental health of children, young people and their families who were known to Social Care.  He has extensive experience of delivering training and consultation work to a wide range of staff within the NHS and Social Care. Colin was Course Organiser for the Foundation Course in Family Therapy at Leeds Univeristy where he continues to be a visiting lecturer on their Foundation and Intermediate Level courses.  His other teaching commitments include being a member of the organising course committee for the Manchester Foundation Course in Family Therapy.  He maintains his registration as a Social Worker with the General Social Care Council (GSCC) and as a Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP.  He is an active member of the North Manchester (CAMHS) Family Therapy and Consultation Service. 

Site Consultants

Cath Connolly – London
BSc (Hons), MSc, PG Dip, TaviM21. UKCP registered Systemic Psychotherapist

Cath Connolly is a Systemic Psychotherapist. She is trained in CBT with Children and Adolescents. Cath has worked in CAMHS and AMHTs, in both inpatient and outpatient departments. Early in her career she worked in Children’s Residential Units and EBD school settings, with young people who had complex presentations, including high levels of offending and undiagnosed mental health problems. She has worked for CAMHS in South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust since 2000, initially developing an Intensive Treatment Programme and providing Tier 3 assessment, treatment and consultation. She has also worked in a specialist Eating Disorder service since 2001 and provides consultation for an adult ADHD team based in a CMHT in SLaM. She is a Clinical Supervisor at The Institute of Psychiatry for their MSc Family Therapy training. Cath is Lead for Systemic Psychotherapy in Southwark CAMHS. She works part time as an MTFCE Consultant. Cath is based at the Maudsley Hospital in London.

Kate Friedmann – Manchester  
BSc, (Hons), MPhil, (Psychology), Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Kate has been a Site Consultant and Trainer with the MTFCE National Team, since November 2007. She is based in Manchester and works half-time in MTFCE and half-time in a local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), as a Clinical Psychologist. Prior to joining MTFCE, Kate worked within CAMHS and within a multidisciplinary, citywide service for Looked After Children. She has extensive experience and training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and trauma-focused CBT and has a particular interest in working with adolescents who have experienced trauma. Kate also has experience in delivering training and consultation to a wide range of professionals. Since working with the National Team, Kate has consulted to sites running MTFC-A, MTFC-C and MTFC-P and recently began consulting to one of the UK’s Intensive Fostering programmes.

Dawn Walker – Manchester 

BA (Hons), Dip PSW (CQSW), Dip FT, Cert Public Services Management, UKCP Registered Systemic Psychotherapist, GSCC Registered Social Worker

Dawn Walker joined the MTFC National Team in 2004. She is based in Manchester and has been Site Consultant for several MTFC teams based in the North and Midlands. She has trained many teams and foster carers in the MTFC model. Prior to joining the MTFC National Team she worked with Children Looked After for over twenty years in both Social Care and CAMHS, using a variety of clinical interventions. In addition she has worked with women experiencing violence from men they know, young people with sexual behaviour problems, families in the child protection process, and children and families using CAMHS Tiers 2-4. She has expertise in consultation, supervision, evaluation and clinical leadership. She taught family therapy in Leeds and currently teaches family therapy within Central Manchester and Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2010 she has worked part-time for MTFC and is Head of CAMHS for Looked After and Adopted Children in Salford.

Jo Warburton – Manchester
BA (Hons) Applied Social Studies, CQSW, NVQ IV Management

Jo Warburton joined the MTFCE National Implementation Team in November 2009 with 20 years experience of working within the public and private sectors at social worker practitioner and managerial levels.  Her practice has focused on working with children and young people who are in or on the edge of care and has worked for 4 years as a Programme Manager of a MTFCE-A team. Her achievements include project managing the development of new services including CAMHS projects, MTFC- A, Intensive Fostering and MST. Jo is a full-time consultant to MTFCE-A sites and KEEP supervisor. She also takes a lead in the professional development of foster carers within the programmes and has served as a member of the national advisory group supporting the re-writing of the Supervising Social Worker Guidance for CWDC Training Support and Development Standards.

Diana Cooke - London
BSc (Hons), MSc, Dip Clin Psychol   

Diana Cooke is a HPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist and has been working part-time in the London team since June 2010. She is currently a Site Consultant and Trainer for MTFC-P and MTFC-C. Her previous posts in CAMHS were as a locality team leader in a Tier 2 inner city CAMHS service and as the manager of a clinical psychology service in a Child Development Centre. She has extensive experience of working with children, young people and their families and carers presenting with a wide range of mental health, relationship, behavioural and developmental issues. Diana has worked as a clinical psychologist for a number of years in Adult Learning Disability and Adult Mental Health Services. She has enjoyed supervising and consulting to colleagues from a variety of backgrounds including psychology, social work and the voluntary sector. Diana has considerable experience of teaching and training and of running parenting skills courses using behavioural approaches. Diana has received further training in cognitive, behavioural and systemic approaches. Her current interests include the needs of looked after children, parenting, working with the effects of trauma and domestic violence.

Alexandra Wretham – London (Assistant psychologist)

BSc(Hons) Psychology, MSc Applied Neuropsychology

Alexandra Wretham joined the MTFC National Implementation team in September 2010 as a researcher worker for the Institute of Psychiatry.  Her focus was on the analysis of the Parent Daily Report which measures behavioural problems and the associated carer stress for adolescents in the MTFC program.  Since then she has become an assistant psychologist for the MTFC team and works with the ongoing data collection and evaluation of the MTFC programme.

Joyce Self – Manchester

BA (Hons) Social and Economic Studies 

Joyce Self joined the MTFCE National Implementation Team in 2009 with over 20 years experience of working within administration at the University of Manchester.  Joyce works part time in the Manchester office providing administrative and secretarial support to national team members in the North.

Jolanta Hernik - London

MA in Managerial Psychology

 Jola joined the MTFC National Implementation Team in 2010. Prior to that she worked for London Borough of Newham, supporting Self-Directed Support pilot programme team. Jola co-ordinates the arrangements for sites under the UK Network Partnership and provides full time administrative support for the National Team in London.