As of January 1, Henk Wijgers and Arlette Sprokkereef will join the supervisory board of S&L Care. This will temporarily expand the board from five to seven members. On August 1, the second term of both the current chairman of the supervisory board and another member will end. The recruitment process for a new chairman will begin in early 2025.
Henk Wijgers will take on the Digitalization & Innovation portfolio within the council. He works as Director of Care & Treatment at Siza in Arnhem and is also active in several focus and sounding board groups at the VGN and member of the steering committee of the academic workshop ZoTeG.
Arlette Sprokkereef will take on the Property & Sustainability portfolio within the council. She has her own interim agency and is currently working as interim manager Finance & Control at HAP Rijnmond, is advisor to Bres Accommodations in the Hoeksche Waard and advisor at ASVZ in Sliedrecht. She is also active as a Supervisory Board member and member of the audit committee of PCBO Rotterdam-Zuid.
With nearly 800 employees and more than 250 volunteers, S&L Care provides excellent care to more than 380 residents every day. In addition to various homes in neighborhoods throughout the region, S&L Zorg has two unique care districts. In Roosendaal this is Sterrebos, a neighborhood like any other, where people with mental disabilities live together. In Bergen op Zoom, people live in their "own" Lambertijnenhof.