How we are run
SOCA is an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) of the Home Office. We’re led by a Board with a majority of non-executive members. The Board is responsible for ensuring that we discharge our statutory responsibilities and meet the strategic priorities set under statute by the Home Secretary.
The Board of SOCA
- Sir Ian Andrews - Chair (Non-Executive)
- William Hughes - Director General
- Peter Clarke - Director (Non-Executive)
- Elizabeth France - Director (Non-Executive)
- Sue Garrard - Director (Non-Executive)
- Janet Paraskeva - Director (Non-Executive)
- Francis Plowden - Director (Non-Executive)
- David Bolt - Director Intelligence
- Malcolm Cornberg - Director Corporate Services
- Paul Evans - Director Intervention
- Trevor Pearce - Director Enforcement
Key personnel
The Chair of SOCA, appointed by the Home Secretary, is responsible for SOCA’s overall approach and for our relationship with Ministers and with Government generally. Also for SOCA’s strategy and, with the Board, for overseeing our operational performance.
The Director General is also appointed by the Home Secretary, and is responsible for everything SOCA does operationally and administratively. He is in charge of the day-to-day leadership of SOCA’s management team and ultimately for the appointment, accreditation and direction of our staff. As Accounting Officer, he is responsible for SOCA’s expenditure and accounting arrangements.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)
SOCA supports the operation of CEOP. CEOP is an affiliated unit with operational independence from SOCA but accountable to the SOCA Board through a committee chaired by Janet Paraskeva. It publishes its own separate Annual Plan and Report. On 11 January 2010 the Home Secretary announced his decision to change the legal status of CEOP and make it a Non Departmental Public Body in its own right. The Government's policy document is available online from TSO.
Further information
Objectives and values – what we’re trying to do and the ways in which we do it.
SOCA structure – the four key areas of operation
Our accountability – who we report to plus documents we publish