Herbert Laming, Baron Laming

Herbert Laming, Baron Laming

William Herbert Laming, Baron Laming , CBE DL (born July 19, 1936 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British civil servant and politician who has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1998 .

Life

Professional career

After attending school and studying social sciences at the University of Durham , Laming was between 1961 and 1968 as a probation officer and most recently chief probation officer at the probation service in Nottingham and then until 1971 assistant to the head of the probation service in Nottingham. He was then from 1971 to 1991 first deputy director and most recently director of Hertfordshire Social Services . During this time he was also President of the Association of Directors of Social Services from 1982 to 1983 and was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 for his services .

In 1991 he moved to the Ministry of Health and Social Security, where he was Chief Inspector of the Inspectorate for Social Services until his retirement in 1998. Due to his services there, he was called to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1996 , so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

House of Lords

Upon his retirement, Laming was promoted through a Letters patent dated July 27, 1998, Laird as a life peer with the title Baron Laming , of Tewin in the County of Hertfordshire , to life peer . Shortly thereafter took place its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

Subsequently, Lord Laming, who became Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 1999 , chaired the independent commission of inquiry in 2000 to review the administration of the prisons . Between 2001 and 2003 he was chairman of the commission investigating the murder of Victoria Climbié, an eight-year-old girl from the Ivory Coast who was murdered on February 25, 2000 by her carers. The investigation led by Lord Laming led to extensive reforms in the protection of minors in Great Britain.

Since 2009 he has been chairman of the child protection association The Protection of Children in England and since 2011 chairman of the Crossbencher group in the House of Lords as the successor to Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza . He has also been chairman of the Association of Local Governments since 2012.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 17, 2012)
• William Laming at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 17, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed on November 17, 2012)