Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton

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Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton

Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton DBE (born April 19, 1959 in Kingston Hill , Surrey ) is a British politician and life peeress . Campbell is particularly committed to the rights of the disabled .

life and career

Campbell has suffered from spinal muscular atrophy since she was born . She grew up in New Malden , in southwest London . Her father Ron was a heating technician and her mother Jesse was a saleswoman . When Jane Campbell was nine years old, she and her sister Sharon moved the family to a house on Wendover Drive.

Campbell attended a girls' school for the disabled. After completing compulsory schooling, Campbell left school at the age of 16. From 1975 she attended Hereward College in Tile Hill , Coventry , a college especially for people with disabilities. There she acquired six O-Levels and three A-Levels over the next three years. She then attended Hatfield Polytechnic at the University of Hertfordshire . At the University of Sussex she earned a Master of Arts with a thesis on the British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst .

Campbell was 1984-1986 Equal Opportunity Officer ( Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer of) Greater London Council . From 1986 to 1987 she was the Disability Training Development Officer of the London Boroughs Disability Resource Team . She was Principal Disability Advisor of the London Borough of Hounslow from 1987 to 1988 and Head of Training for the London Borough Disability Resource Team from 1988 to 1994 .

From 1991 to 1995 she was Chair of the British Council of Disabled People . From 1994 to 1996 she was an independent consultant ( Independent Consultant ) of direct payments . From 1995 to 2001 she was the governor of the National Institute for Social Work . She was co-director of the National Center for Independent Living from 1996 to 2000. She is now a member of the trustee . In 2000 she became Commissioner ( Commissioner ) at the Disability Rights Commission stopped and held this office by 2007. From 2007 to 2009 Campbell was also commissioner ( commissioner ) of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. From 2007 to 2008 she was Chair of the Disability Committee of the Equality and Rights Commission .

She was Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence from 2001 to 2005 . From 2006 to 2008 she was Chair of the Independent Living Review Expert Panel Office of Disability Issues . In 2007 she was appointed a member of the Privy Council .

Since 2008 she has been Chair of the Working Group Individual budgets the Office of Disability Issues and member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Social Work , and member of the standing committee of nurses to the UK Department of Health ( Standing Commission on Carers ). She is an independent member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission .

Membership in the House of Lords

Since March 30, 2007, she has been a life peer and has been a crossbencher in the House of Lords . It bears the title Baroness Campbell of Surbiton , of Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. On June 20, 2007, she gave her inaugural address. She has been part of the Disability Group since 2009 and chairs it together with Roger Berry . Her political interests are health and social welfare, social policy , medical ethics , the self-determined life of people with disabilities, equal treatment and human rights , the rights of the disabled, palliative care and terminal care .

Honors

Campbell was awarded the 1994 Mayor's Community Award from Kingston-upon-Thames excellent. She holds two honorary doctorates , since 2002 a doctorate in law ( Hon LLD ) from the University of Bristol and since 2003 an honorary doctorate from the university ( Hon DUniv ) from Sheffield Hallam University .

Campbell was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 and Dame Commander in 2006 .

Publications

  • 1991: Disability Equality Training (together with Kath Gillespie-Sells , Central Council for Education & Training in Social Work, ISBN 0-904488-89-6 )
  • 1996: Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future (with Mike Oliver ), ISBN 978-0-415-07998-3
  • 2008: It's my life- it's my decision? Assisted dying versus assisted living. (Contribution) in: Luke Clements, Janet Read (Ed.): Disabled People and the Right to Life. The Protection and Violation of Disabled People's Most Basic Human Rights, ISBN 978-0-415-40714-4

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ I'm bossy. I'm ambitious. I love ideas. And I love life in: The Guardian, July 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Jane, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell of Surbiton, Jane Susan Campbell Baroness
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, life peeress and disability activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston Hill , Surrey