About this speaker
By profession Frances is a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. Her Masters was in PTSD in women experiencing Domestic Abuse. Frances has worked extensively in the VAWDASV Sector; starting off as a university student volunteering in Women’s Aid, she then worked in several Women’s Aid groups in England and Wales; her roles have included outreach, refuge worker and counsellor.
Frances has also worked in the RSL sector and as a lay inspector for the Audit Commission.
Frances is the Chief Executive of Llamau; Wales’ leading young people and women’s homeless charity. Llamau works across Wales and with over 10,000 disenfranchised and vulnerable young people and women a year.
Frances was the founder and first Chair of Cymorth Cymru, Wales’ umbrella body for organisations working with vulnerable people in Wales. Frances is also the founder and Chair of the EYHCymru coalition, a recent partnership of charities, agencies, academia and businesses that have joined forces to raise awareness and take a radical approach to ending youth homelessness in Wales.
Frances is a member of the WG Housing Action Group, which is a Welsh Government task group, reporting to Welsh Ministers. The group works independently of Welsh Government to provide policy recommendations on the actions and solutions required to end Homelessness.
Frances is a also board member of the independent think-tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs and WEN; the Wales Equality Network, she has also served on the Advisory Panel of the Children’s Commissioner.
