Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
Susan Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton DBE ( born April 19, 1959 in Kingston Hill, Surrey ) is a British politician and life Peeress. Campbell continues a politically especially for the rights of disabled people.
Life and career
Campbell has suffered since birth spinal muscular atrophy. She grew up in New Malden, on the south-west London. Her father Ron was a heating engineer and her mother Jesse seller. When Jane Campbell was nine years old, pulled her sister Sharon and her. With the family in a house on Wendover Drive
Campbell attended a girls' school for the disabled. After compulsory education Campbell left school at the age of 16. From 1975 she attended the Hereward College in Tile Hill, Coventry, a college especially for people with disabilities. There they acquired, over the next three years, six O- levels and three A-levels. She then attended the Hatfield Polytechnic at the University of Hertfordshire. At the University of Sussex she earned a Master of Arts degree with a thesis on the British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst.
Campbell was from 1984 to 1986 Equal Opportunities Officer (Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer ) of the Greater London Council. From 1986 to 1987 she worked as a Disability Training Development Officer for the London Boroughs Disability Resource Team. She was from 1987 to 1988 Principal Disability Advisor of the London Borough of Hounslow from 1988 to 1994 Training Director of the London Borough Disability Resource Team.
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 Director ( Governor ) of the National Institute for Social Work. She was co-director of the National Centre for Independent Living from 1996 to 2000. In the meantime she is there in the Trusteeship Council Member ( Trustee ). In 2000, she became aware Supervisor ( Commissioner) at the Disability Rights Commission and held this office until 2007. From 2007 to 2009 Campbell was also Commissioner ( Commissioner) of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. From 2007 to 2008 she was there Chairperson ( Chair ) of the Disability Committee of the Equality and Rights Commission.
She was 2001-2005 chairman of the Social Care Institute for Excellence. From 2006 to 2008 she was chairman 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 is the Chair of the Working Group Individual budgets of the Office of Disability Issues and member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Social Work, as well as 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 30 March 2007, she sits on Life Peer raised as Cross Bencher in the House of Lords. It bears the title Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, Surbiton of in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. On 20 June 2007, she held her inaugural speech. Since 2009 she is a member of the Disability Group, and is doing with Roger Berry in the chair. As their political interests they are to health and social care, social policy, medical ethics, self -determined life of people with disabilities, equality and human rights, disability rights, palliative and terminal care.
Honors
Campbell was in 1994 with the Mayor's Community Award of Kingston -upon -Thames excellent. She holds two honorary doctorates since 2002 by the University of Bristol, a Doctor of Laws ( Hon LLD) in 2003 from Sheffield Hallam University an Honorary Doctorate of the University ( Hon DUniv ).
Campbell was appointed in 2000 to the Members and 2006 for Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.