Rich Devine is a Consultant Social Worker with over 14 years of experience working with children and families in a child protection context. He holds a Masters in Attachment Studies from Roehampton University, London (2018), and is trained in several attachment procedures. Currently, he is a Fellow with International Association Study of Attachment and Adaptation. 

Rich is a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University and a member of Relational Activism (https://www.relationalactivism.com/). He writes one of the UK’s most popular social work blogs, exploring topics such as direct work with children, assessment, and relationship-based practice.

 Tim is a specialist in facilitation and participatory methods. He has been a social worker for 18 years and a local authority manager for 10 years (currently a service manager with LB Camden). With masters degree research on empowerment models in social work (MASW distinction from Cardiff University) and published academic writing on community approaches he has collaborated with organisations to develop relational practice, like family group conference, methods which have been gifted to us from indigenous people for talking and thinking about the future. 

Under the banner To Love is to Act a connecting message for citizens and professionals, his work encourages people towards Relational Activism which means action in the everyday and making change happen through personal and informal relationships.