ACOOP Partnership Group Profiles
Robin Cowen
Independent Consultant in Social Care
Robin has worked in Health and Social Care since 1971, in fieldwork, as a manager, an inspector and as part of an improvement agency. He is passionate about improving social care and, since the early 90s has become interested in prisoners, through work with lifers. He has pursued this interest and come to appreciate that prisoners have little or no access to the social care support that the rest of us take for granted and is working to try to help correct this. In addition, prisoners are rarely consulted on government policy initiatives and he has been working with ACOOP, commissioned by the Department of Health and the Older Prisoners Action Group (OPAG) to consult prisoners in the southwest on the Government’s Green Paper - Shaping the Future of Care.
"For the reasons set out above and because I believe that ACOOP fills an essential gap for prisoners, I am keen to try to help and support their work".