Who We Are: Consultants
William Baginsky
Consultant to the Board of Directors
William was a teacher in secondary schools for 25 years, working in a variety of roles, including seven years as a deputy headteacher with responsibility for student welfare and child protection. Subsequently, he joined the NSPCC as Head of Child Protection Publishing and Film, leading a team that worked with academics and expert practitioners across agencies to develop and publish training programmes, films and information for professionals who work with children and families. He established In edit in 2011, providing editorial services to a range of clients, including commercial publishers, not-for-profit organisations, charities and e-learning providers. He has been Associate Editor for the Training Update in Child Abuse Reviewsince 2009. William was a teacher in secondary schools for 25 years, working in a variety of roles, including seven years as a deputy headteacher with responsibility for student welfare and child protection. Subsequently, he joined the NSPCC as Head of Child Protection Publishing and Film, leading a team that worked with academics and expert practitioners across agencies to develop and publish training programmes, films and information for professionals who work with children and families. He established In edit in 2011, providing editorial services to a range of clients, including commercial publishers, not-for-profit organisations, charities and e-learning providers. He has been Associate Editor for the Training Update in Child Abuse Reviewsince 2009.
Lampros Bisdounis
Research analyst & consultant to the Board of Directors
Lampros is a DPhil student at the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience institute of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford. His work is in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and focuses on the mechanisms underlying sleep disruptions in affective disorders. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in psychology and with an MSc in clinical psychology and research methods from the University of Amsterdam. Lampros has a keen interest in big data as well as statistics and research methods applied in medical and behavioural sciences. His role is to conduct and consult on the analytic approaches related to the research work of the Child and Family Training.
Professor Antony Cox
Consultant to the Board of Directors
Antony is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Guy's King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine. Formerly Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Liverpool University Medical School. Research has included, epidemiology, cultural differences in child rearing, interviewing approaches in child psychiatry and general practice, including a computer programme to facilitate communication between children and professionals, the impact of parental mental illness on children, interactions between parents and young children, including those with Down's syndrome, child abuse, hyperactivity, autism and Asperger's Syndrome, evaluation of interventions to promote child emotional and social development, and an early intervention for children with autism. Recently concerned with the development of training in the use of standardised assessments for workers in the health and social services.
Liza Bingley Miller
Founding Director & Consultant to The Board of Directors
Liza founded Child and Family Training with Arnon Bentovim in 2000 and ran the Training Programme for over 12 years. She was a Director until December 2013 before retiring and becoming a consultant for C&FT. She also currently chairs two adoption panels for North Yorkshire's children and young people's service. Liza is a social worker and family therapist by training and worked for many years Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London including as a Leverhulme Research Fellow. She was a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York where she also worked on the Making Research Count project. Liza's most recent publication is Bentovim A, Cox A, Bingley Miller L and Pizzey P (2009) Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence: Evidence-Based Assessment, Analysis and Planning Interventions.
Professor Sezen Zeytinoglu
Consultant to the Board of Directors
Sezen is a professor of developmental psychology who worked full time in Ege University for 25 years, in Cyprus International University for a year and in Izmir University for six years, as department chair, lecturer, researcher and advisor for theses/dissertations of graduate students. After founding the Turkish Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in 1988 with Prof. Esin Konanç and a group of multidisciplinary professionals in Ankara, she contributed in the organization of several national and international conferences including the 2001 ISPCAN Conference in Istanbul, published research in topics such as child labour, children in institutions, court cases of child abuse and neglect, opinions and experiences of practitioners about child abuse in Turkey. She also participated in developing a service center for children on the street and the first unit for serving abused children and their parents in Ankara. She served in the ISPCAN Council for six years and co-chaired the scientific committee of the 2007 ISPCAN Conference in Lisbon. She was in the team that translated SAAF into Turkish and participated in the trainings of SAAF in several cities in Turkey.
Dr. Eileen Vizard CBE
Consultant to the Board of Directors
Eileen is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in independent clinical practice. She works as an Expert Witness in both Family and Criminal proceedings assessing children and families where abuse is known or suspected. Her work with child maltreatment started in 1980 when she joined Dr Arnon Bentovim's child sexual abuse team in Great Ormond Street Hospital. Eileen set up the first UK community based assessment and treatment team for convicted adult sex offenders in 1987 followed by a specialist, community based team for children and young people showing sexually harmful behaviour in 1988. Over the last 35 years, she has contributed to many government consultations in relation to child welfare. She has published, researched and lectured extensively in the field of child maltreatment both nationally and internationally. Eileen is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Child Health and a Visiting Professor at New York University, London. In 2011 she was awarded the CBE for 'services to children and young people'.