General Social Care Council

Our Executive Leadership Team

Penny Thompson

Penny Thompson is the Chief Executive

Penny joined the GSCC as Chief Executive on 31 March 2010. She has over 30 years experience as a senior public services manager and social worker. Before joining the GSCC she was Director of the public sector consultancy PeysnerThompson, undertaking a range of important roles and assignments including interim Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Haringey and a Consultant and Coach to OFSTED.From 2005 to 2007 Penny was Chief Executive of Hackney Borough Council, following a long career in the management of social work services, including eight years as Executive Director of Social Services at Sheffield City Council and three years as an Assistant Director of Children and Families and Children and Adults’ services at Nottinghamshire County Council. Between 1987 and 1995 she was District Officer for Child Protection at Cleveland City Council.

Penny graduated with a BA (Hons) in History and gained an MA in Social Work in 1979. She has over ten years of front line social work experience in challenging environments including two years as a Social Worker at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and six years as a Social Worker for Sheffield City Council.

Sherry Malik

Sherry Malik is the Deputy Chief Executive

Sherry is a qualified social worker and has worked in the public sector for over 25 years. She has previously worked as the Corporate Director of Strategy and Performance at the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), Deputy Area Performance Lead for and Senior Performance Specialist for the Audit Commission and as a senior manager of children’s services in several local authorities and a national childcare voluntary organisation (Action for Children, formerly NCH). She has also worked  as Non-Executive Director of CWDC, Vice Chair of a large NHS Trust and Chair of a Local Authority Trading Company.

The Executive Leadership Team also consists of the following posts:

• Head of HR

• Head of Finance and Facilities

• Head of Governance and Legal

• Head of Performance and Customer Services

• Head of IT

• Head of Registration

• Head of Investigations

• Head of Committee Services

• Head of Education

• Head of Policy

• Head of Communications

Expenses relating to the Chief Executive and Directors

2012

• Executive Management Team expenses: January 2012 - March 2012 (PDF 11KB)

2011

• Executive Management Team expenses: October 2011 - December 2011 (PDF 36KB)
• Executive Management Team expenses: July 2011 - September 2011 (PDF 25KB)
• Executive Management Team expenses: April 2011 - June 2011 (PDF 14KB)
• Executive Management Team expenses: January 2011 - March 2011 (PDF 15KB)

2010

• Executive Management Team expenses: October 2010 - December 2010 (PDF 15KB)
• Executive Management Team expenses: July 2010 - September 2010 (Excel 30KB) 
• Executive Management Team expenses: April 2010 - June 2010 (PDF 14KB)
• Executive Management Team expenses: January 2010 - March 2010 (PDF 78KB)

Grading structure and pay grades

As part of the government's initiative for transparency of spending across all public bodies we provide information on our current staffing and pay scales.

• GSCC organogram (PDF 10KB)
• Staff posts and salary dataset (junior and senior) (CSV 8.5MB) 
• Senior staff posts dataset (CSV 3KB)
• Senior staff pay dataset (CSV 1KB)
• Junior staff posts dataset (CSV 4KB)
• Government staff and salary data (RDF 95KB)*

* Please note the file 'Government staff and salary data' is only viewable with a RDF file reader. The Government will be making this accessible shortly. We will provide a link to the file reader once we receive it.