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, a 1980.

She was a social worker in North London and worked for the Mental Health Foundation. From 1991 to 1994, Meacher senior adviser to the Russian government in the area of ​​work. Subsequently, she was until 2002 she was Deputy Chairman ( Deputy Lieutenant) of the Police Complaints Authority.

From 2002 to 2004 she was Chair ( Chair ) of the Security Industry Authority. In 2004, she was appointed Chairman of the East London and City Mental Health Trust. Currently ( December 2012) is chairman of the East London NHS Foundation Trust since 2007.

Membership in the House of Lords

Meacher, he was named in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets May 2, 2006 for Life Peeress as Baroness Meacher, of Spitalfields. In the House of Lords she sits as a cross Bencher. Their official launch took place on 10 October 2006 with the support of John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington and Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold.

As subjects of political interest calls on the website of the House of Lords mental health, criminal justice, social services and social care. As the state of interest calls Russia.

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

Your presence at meeting days is in the mid range of meeting days. In the second half of 2011, their presence increased.

More offices

From 1987 to 1992 she was Commissioner of the Mental Health Act. From 1994 to 1998 she was a non-executive director of Tower Hamlets Healthcare Trust. At the Home Office Forum for Forensic Physicians it was 2002-2004 chairman. From 2004 to 2008 she was at 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 Richard Grenville Layard .. She and her second husband are one of the few couples who both carry title in its own right.

Publications

  • Scrounging on the Welfare, 1972, Arrow Books, ISBN 978-0099098805
  • To Him Who Hath, 1977, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0140219760 ( with Frank Field)
  • New Methods of Mental Health Care, 1979, Pergamon Press, ISBN 978-0080222646 ( with Michael Meacher )
  • The Mentally Disordered Offender, 1991 Butterworth -Heinemann Ltd, ISBN 978-0750600286 (contribution)
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