Our staff

Search our superb team of highly experienced, insightful staff.

Name	Title	Team	Get in touch	Bio
Janelle MacMillan	Administrator	Admin		Bio
Jeremy Bayston	Digital Communications Co-ordinator	Communications	0141 444 8546	Bio Having spent over twenty years working for national newspapers, I now work in the CELCIS Comms department, looking after the website, social media and producing digital content.
Joanne McMeeking	Head Improving Care Experiences	SMT	0141 444 8541	Bio Joanne is a qualified children and families' social worker with 25 years' experience in a wide range of local authority, voluntary and policy roles. Joanne heads up the Improving Care Experiences team at CELCIS which has a particular focus on core practice, assessment, planning and review for our looked after children. Joanne believes if you care, support, and carefully challenge people you will get the absolute best from them. Her growth and nurture agenda extends to the care she bestows on her beloved garden.
Kate MacKinnon	Policy Associate	Policy	0141 444 8504	Bio
Kathleen Doyle	Head of Central Services	SMT	0141 444 8557	Bio In her role on the senior management team Kathleen takes a 360' view of CELCIS's work. Her focus is all about supporting strategic and successful delivery of CELCIS's work with its partners, by assessing how that work is communicated and implemented. Kathleen brings long experience in knowledge and information exchange and remains passionate about how evidence is best used in practice. She's a self-confessed yoga fanatic, its what she does to stay sane and balanced. A trained dancer, she occasionally finds time to trip the light fantastic.
Katie McGuigan	Finance and Business Development Advisor	Finance	0141 444 8583	Bio Katie has a great head for numbers. She keeps CELCIS right on the money with important financial, HR and contractual stuff. One of her most critical roles is to keep the staff up to speed with the dreaded Financial Management System. After bringing up five children, Katie has finally found some time for herself and uses it mainly for yoga and running. She's already completed the Berlin Half Marathon and is hatching plans to add swimming to her impressive activity repertoire.
Kenny McGhee	Throughcare and Aftercare Consultant	Throughcare and aftercare	0141 444 8548	Bio Kenny works with corporate parents and other partners at local authority and national levels to provide bespoke consultancy, training and expert support to improve services and outcomes for care leavers, He's passionate about closing the implementation gap between policy and practice, and offers a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience gained over many years as a practitioner, manager and trainer. Away from work, he's equally passionate about hitting golf balls, watching rugby and strumming guitars.
Kirsty Deacon	Research Associate	Research	0141 444 8221	Bio
Kirsty Doull	Permanence Consultant	Permanence	0141 444 8572	Bio Kirsty is CELCIS' resident legal eagle. She comes from a local authority and government background where she specialised in looked after children and permanence, both in practice and in policy. She is helping to deliver the PACE Programme which supports Councils and their partners to make improvements to the processes they use to secure permanent homes for looked after children. A big am dram fan, Kirsty's appeared on stage in the Edinburgh Festival and in musicals. She can act and sing a wee bit, but says please don't ask her to dance.
Laura Kane	Administrative Support	Admin	0141 444 8577	Bio Laura provides the all-important administrative support required to keep CELCIS's Improving Care Experiences team ticking over smoothly. Laura also co-ordinates the running of the Scottish Journal Residential Child Care. Laura first joined the Strathclyde family at the age of 16 as a Modern Apprentice and since then has completed an SVQ level 4 in Business and Administration and ILM level 3 in Leadership and Management. In her spare time, Laura enjoys her holidays in the sun and spending much needed social time with her family and friends.