Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher

Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher (born May 15, 1940 ), known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard , is a British social worker and life peeress .

life and career

Meacher was born in May 1940. She attended Berkhamsted School for Girls and the University of York , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1970 , and the University of London , where she received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 1980 .

She was a social worker in north London and worked for the Mental Health Foundation . From 1991 to 1994, Meacher was a senior labor adviser to the Russian government. She was then Deputy Lieutenant ( Deputy Lieutenant ) of the Police Complaints Authority until 2002 .

From 2002 to 2004 she was Chair of the Security Industry Authority . In 2004 she was named chair of the East London and City Mental Health Trust . Currently (December 2012) she has been Chair of the East London NHS Foundation Trust since 2007.

Membership in the House of Lords

Meacher, he was appointed Life Peeress as Baroness Meacher, of Spitalfields in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on May 2, 2006 . In the House of Lords she sits as CROSSBENCHER . It was officially launched on October 10, 2006 with the assistance of John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington and Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold .

She lists mental health, criminal justice, social benefits and social care as topics of political interest on the House of Lords website. She names Russia as a state of interest .

Session period April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007: 65 days
Session period April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008: 86 days
Session period April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009: 86 days
Session period April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010: 84 days
Session period April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010: 9 days
Session period July 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010: 7 days
Session period October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010: 27 days
Session period January 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011: 30 days
April 2011: 5 days (out of 7)
May 2011: 9 days (out of 15)
June 2011: 12 days (out of 17)
July 2011: 12 days (out of 13)
August 2011: 1 day (of 1)
September 2011: 7 days (out of 8)
October 2011: 15 days (out of 18)
November 2011: 14 days (out of 18)
December 2011: 11 days (out of 13)
January 2012: 11 days (out of 14)
February 2012: 11 days (out of 14)
March 2012: 14 days (out of 17)
April 2012: 4 days (out of 5)
May 2012: 9 + 1 days (out of 13)
June 2012: 9 days (out of 13)

Their presence on meeting days is in the middle of the meeting days. Their attendance increased in the second half of 2011.

Other offices

From 1987 to 1992 she was Commissioner of the Mental Health Act . From 1994 to 1998 she was the non-executive director of the Tower Hamlets Healthcare Trust . She was chair of the Home Office Forum for Forensic Physicians from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008 she was on the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Central and North West London Mental Health Trust .

family

In 1962 she married Michael Meacher , with whom she has two sons and two daughters. They divorced in 1987. In 1991 she married Peter Layard, Baron Layard . She and her second husband are one of the few couples who have both titles in their own right.

Publications

Scrounging on the Welfare , 1972, Arrow Books, ISBN 978-0-09-909880-5
To Him Who Hath , 1977, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-021976-0 (with Frank Field )
New Methods of Mental Health Care , 1979, Pergamon Press, ISBN 978-0-08-022264-6 (with Michael Meacher )
The Mentally Disordered Offender , 1991, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, ISBN 978-0-7506-0028-6 (article)

Web links

Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher at theyworkforyou
Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher at The Public Whip
Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher Official website of the House of Lords
The Baroness Meacher - Biography at Debretts

Individual evidence

↑ East London NHS Foundation Trust ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. East London NHS Foundation Trust website , accessed December 12, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Non-Executive Directors ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. East London NHS Foundation Trust website , accessed December 12, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed August 28, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Meacher, Molly, Baroness Meacher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meacher, Molly Christine, Baroness Meacher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British social worker and life peeress
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1940

[1] East London NHS Foundation Trust ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. East London NHS Foundation Trust website , accessed December 12, 2012 @1@ 2

[2] Non-Executive Directors ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. East London NHS Foundation Trust website , accessed December 12, 2012 @1@ 2

[3] House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed August 28, 2011