Mr Alex Fox OBE

Mr Alex Fox

School of Social Policy
CEO of Shared Lives Plus
Honorary Senior Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 7738641897
Email
alex@sharedlivesplus.org.uk
Twitter
@AlexSharedLives
Address
School of Social Policy
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Alex Fox OBE FRSA is CEO of Shared Lives Plus, the UK network for Shared Lives and Homeshare. He Chairs the NHS England, Dept. Health and Public Health England review of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector and sits on the NHSE Empowering People and Communities Taskforce and the Think Local, Act Personal partnership board. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Birmingham University, and a trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and the Local Area Coordination Network. Alex was awarded an OBE for services to social care in the 2017 New Year’s Honours. He blogs at http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com/ and @AlexSharedLives.

Qualifications

MA, BA

Biography

Alex is CEO of Shared Lives Plus, the UK network for Shared Lives and Homeshare. Members include 5,500 Shared Lives carers who share their homes and family life with people who need support and 170+ local organisations. Alex Chairs the NHS England, Dept. Health and Public Health England review of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (www.vcsereview.org.uk), is a Think Local, Act Personal board member and member of NHS England’s Empowering People & Communities Taskforce. He is a trustee of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a Director of the Local Area Coordination Network and an advisor for Altogether Better. Alex is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Birmingham University, Research Associate at ResPublica and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), for which he edited The New Social Care among other papers. He was awarded an OBE for services to social care in the 2017 New Year’s Honours.

He blogs at http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com/ and tweets as @AlexSharedLives.

Research

Research interests:

  • Disability
  • Personalised support
  • Public services
  • Mental health

Other activities

  • Independent Chair, Joint VCSE Review
  • Board member, Think Local, Act Personal partnership
  • Board member, Social Care Institute for Excellence
  • Board member, Local Area Coordination Network

Publications

Fox, A., (2018 forthcoming) A New Health and Care System: escaping the invisible asylum, Bristol: Policy Press.

Fox, A., (2017) The Asset Based Area, London: Think Local, Act Personal.

Fox, A., (2017) Six Innovations that could build a new social care system, The Guardian, May 2017.

Contributing author and independent Chair: Fox, A., (2016)  Joint review of investment in Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations in health and care sector. London: HM Government.

Fox, A., (2014) Can we have a People Powered NHS? A power to Create Discussion Paper, London: Royal Society of Arts.

Fox, A., Fox, C., Marsh, C. Could personalisation reduce re-offending? Journal of Social Policy, Volume 42, Issue 04, pp. 721-741, October 2013.

Fox, A., (2013) Putting people into personalisation Relational approaches to social care and housing, London: ResPublica.

Fox, A., (2013) (ed.), The new social care, London: Royal Society of Arts.