Toby Williamson

Toby works in the fields of adult and older people’s mental health, dementia, mental capacity and safeguarding. As a consultant he has done social research, education, training, policy work and organisational development for a range of organisations including the Alzheimer’s Society, Brent Museum & Archives, Centre for Mental Health, Dementia UK, Independent Age, Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, Race Equality Foundation, Skills for Care, the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust and the University of West London.

Before consultancy he worked in both statutory and non-statutory mental health organisations in a variety of roles including managing community-based mental health services, national policy work, and as a civil servant on the Mental Capacity Act implementation programme.

He currently chairs his local Dementia Action Alliance in Southwark, south London, has family experience of dementia, and is the co-author of The Dementia Manifesto (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Toby reviewed and consulted on our Mental Capacity Act - In Practice Course.

You can find out more about Toby Williamson on the Eastside People website: https://eastsidepeople.org/member/toby-williamson/