Paul Grant

Paul Grant

Professional Conduct Committee

Paul Grant has been a Director of an Independent Fostering Agency since 2012 and was the Responsible Individual between 2012-2023. He has previously worked as an Independent workplace investigator, investigating matters relating to staff grievances and disciplinary issues.

He was a non-executive director with various organisations between 2007-2023, acting in this role for a Probation Trust, two housing associations, a regeneration company, and a social enterprise health provider. He was a non-executive director of Cafcass (Children and Families Court Advisory Support Service) between 2015 – 2023. Paul sits as a Lay Chair/Lay Panel member on Professional Conduct panels for a number of professional regulatory bodies including: Farriers Registration Council;  General Osteopathic Council; Bar Standards Board; Social Work England; Nursing & Midwifery Council; British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; the Registration Council for Clinical Physiology; Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; and the Taxation Disciplinary Board. Paul also sits on the Test of Competence Assurance Advisory group for the Nursing and Midwifery Council. He has a Masters degree in Training & Human Resource Management.

Annual Register of Interest 2025

Membership of formal groups:

• June 2023 – Lay Member, Taxation Disciplinary Board (TDB)
• June 2023 – Present – Lay member of Investigating Committee, Chartered institute for Public Finance and Accountancy, London
• January 2023 – Present Lay member of the King’s Counsel Appointments Panel. King’s Counsel Appointments, London
• July 2022 – Present Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), London
• December 2021 – Present Lay Chair, Investigation and Assessment Committee Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP)
• September 2021 – Present Lay Chair, Professional Conduct Panel, British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
• April 2020 – Present Member of the Test of Competence Assurance Advisory Group, Nursing & Midwifery Council (London)
• September 2019 – Present Chair Adjudicator for Social Work England (Sheffield)
• April 2019 – Present Lay Member of the Independent Decision Making Body, Bar Standards Board (London)
• March 2019 – Present Lay Member of the Investigating Committee, General Osteopathic Council (London)
• August 2018 – Present Chair of the Investigating Committee, Farriers Registration Council (Peterborough)
• July – Present Non-Executive Director Fostering Dimensions Ltd (Nottingham)

Business, professional or social relationships:
None

Companies or associations which you or members of your family are officers of employees or in which you or they have beneficial interests:

• Director and shareholder in Paul Grant & Associates Ltd
• Non-Executive Director and shareholder in Fostering Dimensions Ltd

Involvement in partnerships, joint ventures or consortia:
None

Professional relationships with individuals, organisations or businesses that might have relations with ARB:
None

Other:
None