Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland

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Valerie Georgina Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland OBE (born September 5, 1940 ) is a British politician and life peeress .

life and career

Howarth was born on September 5, 1940. She attended Abbeydale Girls Grammar School . She later studied at Leicester University . From 1959 to 1960 she was trainee in management of Walsh's Ltd .

From 1963 to 1968 she worked for the Family Welfare Association as a family clerk. From 1968 to 1970 she was a Senior Child Care Worker and worked in the family emergency service in the London Borough of Lambeth . Howarth was Area Co-ordinator from 1970 to 1972 and Chief Co-ordinator of Social Work from 1972 to 1976 . From 1976 to 1982 she was Assistant Director of Personal Services and from 1982 to 1986 Director of Social Services for the London Borough of Brent .

In Childline Howarth was 1987-2001 chief executive .

She chairs the Lambeth and Brent Area Review Committee and the London Directors' Child Care Group . Howart is an advisor to the London Boroughs' Regional Planning Committee , where she was responsible for women's shelters . In 1987, she was Consultant ( Consultant ) of John Grooms Association for Disabled People , where she was from 1988 to 2007 member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ). In 1987 Howarth was a consultant at the Thomas Coram Foundation and from 1988 to 2001 at the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Telephone Information Systems (ICSTIS).

From 1990 to 1995 she was a member of the trustee of the National Council for Voluntary Child Care Organizations , as well as its vice-chair . From 1993 to 1994 she was a trustee of the National Children's Bureau and from 1994 to 1997 she was the British representative at the European Forum for Child Welfare .

From 1995 to 1996 she was a founding member and first chair of the Telephone Helplines Association . She was also a founding member and first chairperson of the King's Cross Homelessness Project . She was also a founding member of the London Homelessness Forum , NCH ​​Commission considering Children as Abusers from 1991 to 1992, and from 1993 to 1995 on the NSPCC Professional Advisory Panel .

She was a founding member of the Working Group on Children and the Law , which was incorporated into the Child Witness Pack (1991 to 1994). She was also a founding member of the Home Office Steering Group on Child Witnesses .

Howarth was a member of the board of the Food Standards Agency from 2000 to 2007. At the Sieff Foundation , she was a member of the trustee board from 1992 to 2006. She is also a member of the British Association of Social Workers (BASF), and from 2001 to 2005 the National Care Standards Commission . Since 2002 she is the patron ( saint ) and member of the Trusteeship Council of Little Hearts Matter .

From 2003 to 2007 she was Chair of the Child Helplines International . She was a member of the Board of Directors of Children and Family Courts and Support Services from 2002 to 2008 and has been its chairman since 2008.

Howarth has been Vice-President of the LGA since 2008 . She received an honorary doctorate from the Open University in 2007. She is an associate member of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services .

She is also chairman and president of livability , chairman of the Safeguarding Group in the City Parochial Foundation and Deputy Chairman ( Deputy Chair ) and member of the Trusteeship Council ( Trustee ) of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation .

Howarth is Chair of the UK Group on Child Exploitation . She was a member of the Board of the National Care Standards Commission from 2001 to 2004 and of the Meat Hygiene Services Board from 2004 to 2007. At Cafcass (Children and Families Advisory and Support Services) she has been a member of the board of directors and chairwoman since 2008. Since 2010 she has been the vice-president of the Local Government Association .

Membership in the House of Lords

Howarth was on 25 June 2001 to life peer as Baroness Howarth of Breckland, of Parson Cross in the County of South Yorkshire appointed. It was officially launched on July 24, 2001 with the assistance of Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam and Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal . She gave her inaugural address at the House of Lords on December 19, 2001. There she is a crossbencher .

On the website of the House of Lords, she names consumer issues and social care as topics of political interest. She names the states of Europe as states of particular interest . She has been a member of the Select Committee since 2005 and Chair of Sub-Committee G since 2007 .

Honors

Howarth became Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1999 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Valerie Georgina Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c The Judges Guardian April 30, 2008 article .
  3. ↑ a b c Baroness Howarth of Breckland OBE, president, livability items Guardian , accessed on 7 December 2012 found.
  4. ^ Baroness Howarth of Breckland Excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of July 24, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Howarth, Valerie, Baroness Howarth of Breckland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howarth, Valerie Georgina, Baroness Howarth of Breckland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and life peeress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1940