Appointment of 2 new members to Cafcass Board

The Rt Hon Dominic Raab – Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice – has approved the appointments of Peter Fish and Catharine Seddon as members of the Board of the Children’s and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) for 4 years from 19 April 2022.

Biographies

Catharine Seddon has 14 years of public service as a non-executive director, principally for national regulators. Catharine is currently Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Senior Independent Director for The Gambling Commission and the Legal Services Board, where she also chairs the Audit and Risk Assurance committee.

Previously, she has held non-executive and committee roles with the Human Tissue Authority and The Pensions Regulator.   She also sits on tribunals in mental health and employment, as a lay assessor on civil cases in the county courts and she is a presiding magistrate in Central London. Catharine tutors for the Civil Service College and is a member of the Health Service Products Appeal Tribunal and a trustee for CPotential, a special needs charity.

Catharine spent twenty years as a high-end film documentary maker, at first at the BBC and latterly for C4, eventually setting up her own independent production company.

Catharine has not declared any political activity.

Peter Fish CB has extensive experience within government. His previous roles include Home Office Legal Adviser and Director General, Government Legal Department, Director General and Head of the Attorney General’s Office, and Deputy Treasury Solicitor at the Treasury Solicitor’s Department. He is currently an Assistant Boundary Commissioner at the Boundary Commission.

Peter has not declared any political activity.