Aspris Fostering Services comprises of a dedicated, passionate and friendly team, with extensive knowledge and experience in supporting children, young people and foster carers.
Sally Gregory
Managing Director and Responsible Individual
With a background in children’s social care spanning over three decades, Sally has worked in a variety of roles and settings with looked after children, and remains resolutely committed to ensuring the best outcomes for those in our care.
As Managing Director, it is Sally’s role at Aspris Fostering Services to oversee the operational management of the agency, meticulously monitoring service delivery to ensure it aligns with our values and ethos, and delivers effective solutions to local authorities and meaningful support to our foster carers.
John Heron
Head of Service – Fostering
Registered Manager (applied)
John has over 40 years’ of experience working within fostering services. For much of this time, John has been in management roles working with services both in the public and private sectors to provide high quality foster care.
As Head of Service/Registered Manager, John is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the service and for ensuring that you receive the support and care you need to look after the children and young people in your care. John is passionate about foster care and believes that if we support you, our foster carers well, together we can provide safe, secure and loving foster homes for the children and young people we look after.
Michelle Bourne
Fostering Team Manager and Practice Educator
Michelle has worked for Aspris Fostering Services for over five years now. Michelle’s social work background has mainly been within a fostering setting and has also previously worked within a mental health team supporting adults with complex needs.
Michelle’s role here is varied, and consists of supporting foster families and the children in their care, as well as providing ongoing support for the Supervising Social Workers in the team and completing audits to ensure our compliances remain up-to-date. Michelle also works closely with the placing authorities that we work in partnership with to ensure we have a positive working relationship.
One of Michelle’s aims within her role is to see and support positive outcomes for children and young people. However, at the forefront of her work is to ensure foster carers are heard and listened to as we all know the role of a foster carer is demanding and challenging but also rewarding!
Evelyn Gasa
Senior Supervising Social Worker
Working in health and social care has always been a dream of Evelyn’s, and she has a wide range of experience working in different social care settings, from supporting vulnerable adults to working in a wide range of children’s social care teams.
Evelyn has a huge passion for achieving the best outcomes for individuals that she works with, and will do all in her power to ensure this happens. In her current role, Evelyn predominantly supports our foster carers to ensure that they understand their role, consequently extending the best care possible to the children and young people in their care.
Izzy Sutch
Fostering Support Worker
Izzy has a great deal of prior experience as a support worker, previously working within residential services specialising in supporting individuals with autism and other complex needs.
Izzy’s passion is to support children and young people to achieve the best possible outcomes using a caring and individually tailored approach. Having grown up within a family that fostered children, Izzy feels she has a lot to offer when it comes to being able to directly support our children, young people and foster carers.
Jane Bennett
Placements Manager and Senior Supervising Social Worker
Prior to qualifying, Jane worked in children’s residential homes which she really enjoyed and gave her invaluable hands-on experience. Since qualifying in 2006, Jane has worked in safeguarding for the local authority and as a Supervising Social Worker within fostering.
Jane currently supports Aspris in her role as Placements Manager and Senior Supervising Social Worker, which involves matching children and young people with our carers. Jane thoroughly enjoys supporting our foster carers in their crucial role.
Fi Newood
Psychotherapist
Fi is a qualified and experienced counsellor, psychotherapist, trainer and author. Fi is passionate about helping people to feel safe and lovable through relationships that give them a sense of belonging. Fi is an accomplished, experienced trainer and her course has been rated as 'excellent' by 99.8% of attendees since 2013.
As a foster-adopt parent and the founder of Belong Therapeutic Support, Fi is widely known for her work with parents and professionals in fostering and adoption. She loves working in this area, with fostering and then adopting being one of the best things Fi has ever done, but it has also been her greatest challenge. Therapeutic parenting of children and young people with trauma histories is hard. Belong Therapeutic Support started with a focus on supporting foster and adoptive families with this challenge. Counselling and psychotherapy can be a hugely beneficial part of the support offered within fostering and adoption.
Debi Stanley
Fostering Administrator and Placements Coordinator
Debi has many years of experience working as an administrator, several of which have been within fostering.
As one of the first points of contact for Aspris Fostering Services, Debi would like to assure you that she is happy to help with any questions you may have and is looking forward to getting to know you and helping to support you along your foster care journey.
Lucy Collins
Interim Fostering Administrator
Alongside Lucy’s substantive role of Office Manager and Executive Assistant to our CEO at Aspris, for the last five months, Lucy has been supporting Aspris Fostering Services with a wide range of administrative tasks.
From liaising with our foster carers to setting up events, taking minutes at the fostering panel meetings and helping with the training, learning and development, Lucy’s role has been very much about being wholly dedicated to moving the fostering service’s administrative function forward in an efficient, compliant and proactive way.
Kylie Cheston
Deputy HR Director
Kylie has worked in HR for over 20 years and has extensive experience in a variety of HR roles across health, social care and education. In Kylie’s current role, she supports the fostering agency to enable our colleagues and foster careers to have the best experience they can with Aspris.
Jane Stone
Director of Governance & Risk
Jane trained as a Mental health Nurse during the 1980s, moving into NHS Management in 1990. She worked in a variety of roles in both Acute and specialist MH and LD trusts, with her last role being that of Chief Operating Officer for Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Jane then went to work for the Priory Group, initially in the Healthcare Division, but then moved into a group role relating to service improvement and quality, alongside being the Group Director of Nursing. She was planning on early retirement at the time of Aspris being formed, but was asked to come for a three month period on a part time basis to set up governance systems, and nearly three years later, she is still here!
When not at work, Jane enjoys knitting, music, time with her husband, family and friends and collecting vintage teenage dolls.