Our Team

Lucy Mwape

Managing Director of The Woodbridge Family Centre

Lucy is a widely respected Social Work Practitioner who prior to establishing The Woodbridge Family Centre; worked as a Senior Practitioner, Practice Manager, Parenting Assessment Team Case Manager, Independent Social Worker and Professional Educator.

Lucy’s qualifications include: Teaching diploma, BA Hons Health & Social Care, MA Social work, Developing & Planning a Practice, Learning Intervention, Implementing & Evaluating a Practice Learning Intervention. Lucy is qualified as a trainer in Reducing Parental Conflict and Physical Intervention (using therapeutic approaches).

Lucy is currently studying towards MA Advanced Social Work (Practice Education) focussing on ‘Developing the Learning Organisation, Working within & across Organisations. Lucy is also a Certified Freedom Programme Facilitator.

David Angier-Brown

Service Manager / Responsible Individual

David is a highly experienced and dedicated Social Worker with over 25 years’ practice of working with vulnerable children, young people and families. David has an in-depth understanding of legislative frameworks, procedures and techniques, with extensive knowledge of social work principles and their application to complex cases.

David has worked in various residential/educational settings including Barnardo’s where he focussed on delivering intensive therapy to young people placed in the care of local authorities and placed in specialist residential care; work that involved training and supervising staff team members.

In addition, David led on the development of a service focusing on providing Assessments of Need and Risk for children, young people and adults convicted of or displaying sexually harmful behaviours in Northamptonshire County Council. This project progressed by developing services for survivors of abuse and neglect.

Joyce Mwape

Head of Risk and Finance

Joyce is a chartered accountant with over six years’ experience across internal and external audit, and financial accounting and reporting at Deloitte, Forterra PLC, The Financial Times and EY.
Joyce has a strong internal controls and financial reporting background gained from a variety of complex projects in both public and private sectors. She specialises in risk management, and the design and improvement of financial and internal control processes.

Lucy Manuel

Centre Manager – Residential & Community Services

Lucy Manuel is a qualified social worker with ten years of experience. Lucy has years of Child Protection Experience which involves the management of complex care proceedings within the court arena. She also has a good deal of post qualifying training including: Child Sexual Exploitation, Meaning of the Child Assessment, Direct Work with Children, Assessment incorporating issues of diversity, Understanding Sex Offending in Order to Safeguard Children, Working with Children Who Display Sexually Harmful Behaviour & Domestic Violence and Abuse Safeguarding

Steven Marklew

Deputy Centre Manager

Steve is a dedicated and dependable manager who strives for best practice in his work with children and families. Steve is hardworking and committed, his person-centred approach has aided him in establishing positive relationships with young people and their families, even under the most testing of circumstances.

He is thorough in his work and shows great insight, this informs his careful planning and inspirational leadership. Steve has held positions at operational and managerial levels including taking the lead in preparing a new children’s home for registration and conducting Regulation 44 visits.  Steve has a passion for supporting young people within residential settings who may be experiencing emotional/behavioural difficulties.

George Bellos

Practice Manager for Young Persons’ 16 – 25

George grew up in Athens and moved to the UK in 2010 to pursue studies in psychology at University of Surrey.
His interests are in the clinical psychological environment and he enjoys working with young people. During his career, he has worked with adults and young people with complex needs. He has experience in traumatic or acquired brain injury, borderline personality disorder, substance misuse and autistic spectrum. George is trained in DBT, REBT and Physical intervention (trained trainer).

Miti Mwape

Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager

Miti has worked within education and social care sectors, she has experience of working within varied systems, compliance standards and regulations. She holds a Joint degree in Education Studies and Social Care from the University of Northampton.

She is passionate about supporting children, young people and adults holistically through quality assuring our working practices and ensuring that we are compliant in all areas of our practice and service provision.

Lee Jackson

Business Support Manager

Lee has over 40 years of experience in property management services and processes that support the core business of an organisation. At the Woodbridge Lee is responsible for ensuring that the organisation has the most suitable living environment for clients and working environment for its employees and their activities. Lee is involved in both strategic planning and day-to-day operations, particularly in relation to the safety of the buildings and premises, health and safety, space management, utilities and communications infrastructure including transport management.

Abbi Croson

Lead Early Years Practitioner

Abbi is an Early Years Practitioner with years of experience working within nursery environments, tracking the progress of young children, supporting children with special needs and assisting parents in managing the welfare of children.

Abbi has completed a Level 3 Diploma in Children’s Learning and Development. She has a BA qualification in Early Childhood Studies and is passionate about working with children, young people and their families.

Maria-Magdalena Burduja

Family Engagement Worker

Maria is a hardworking and caring Family Engagement Worker. She is an adaptable, conscientious, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual with a wealth of experience in implementing personal support plans which focus on individual’s welfare, needs, wants and interests.

Maria is consistently positive in her work with clients and their families, she is a dedicated team player who is currently working towards a Care Certificate.