Sydney Roper
Managing Director |
Sydney founded both QMW and then CPPS. Previously, he directed seminar programmes for the Universities of Birmingham and London, was a national department head and then regional director of a Government quango and deputy director of planning for a Welsh city. He has chaired a housing association and a school governors. He is a graduate of LSE and has a post graduate diploma from UCL.
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Dr Anna Osborne
Associate Director |
Anna has worked for CPPS since 2005 and been responsible for running many of its programmes. She has a PhD from Durham University and a MA from Edinburgh. She has had a range of other jobs and also has a garden design business. Anna now leads for CPPS on marketing.
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Cheryl Shackleton
Associate Director |
Cheryl joined CPPS in 2008. She has previously been a researcher and lecturer in criminal justice and social policy at Bradford University. She has been a research consultant in local government and the community sector and still teaches part time at Bradford, from which university she graduated and has an MA. She is CPPS’s lead person for commissioned and sponsored work
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Louise Rushworth
Business Manager |
Louise, like Sydney, has been with QMW and CPPS since 1993. She now heads the CPPS business team, responsible for distribution, registration, finance, seminar preparation and office management
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Neil Peden
Non-Executive Director |
Neil has been non-executive director of CPPS since 2004. He is director and company secretary of Greystone Financial Services.
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Dr Kit Evans
Company Secretary |
Kit has been company secretary since 2004. She is a
consultant psychiatrist, medico-legal consultant and specialist adviser to the
General Medical Council. She qualified in medicine at the University of Manchester.
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
The work of the Centre is steered by an eminent Advisory Council chaired by Lord Toby Harris, with Vice Chairs Pam Warhurst and Prof Gus John. Members are leading figures in central and local government, other public services, NGOs and business. Its members are :
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Chair
Lord Toby Harris |
Government Peer, Chair, All Party Group on Policing; Former Chair, Association of London Government and Metropolitan Police Authority; Director, Toby Harris Associates; Vice President, Local Government Association
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Deputy Chair
Pam Warhurst |
Social Entrepreneur; Former Leader, Calderdale Council and Deputy Chair, Countryside Agency; Board Member, Natural England
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Deputy Chair
Prof Gus John |
Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde; Chief Executive, Gus John Partnership
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| David Behan | Director General of Social Care, Department of Health
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| Eamonn Boylan | Deputy Chief Executive, Manchester City Council
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| Ursula Brennan | Chief Executive, Office of Criminal Justice Reform
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| Greg Clark | Chair, Forum of Cities and Regions, OECD
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| Tony Close | Director, BIOSS International; Former Group Director, Trusthouse Forte
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| Jon Coles | Director of 14/19 Reform, Department for Children, Schools and Families
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| Edward Collins | Regional Officer, ASCL; Recently Headteacher, Todmorden High School
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| Tony Colman | Director, Africa Practice; Former MP for Putney
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| John Dunford | General Secretary, Association of School and College Leaders
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| Cllr Margaret Eaton | Chair, National Association of Conservative Councillors
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| Lucy Fallon-Byrne | Director, National Centre for Partnership and Performance, Dublin
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| Mike Farrar | Chief Executive, NHS North West
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| Imtiaz Farookhi | Chief Executive, NHBC
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| Mike Granatt | Partner, Luther Pendragon; Former Head of GICS
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| Olivia Grant | Pro Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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| Jane Greenoak | Director of Corporate Services, National Housing Federation
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| Jennifer Harris | Managing Director, JRBH Strategy and Management
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| Jacqui Henderson | Chief Executive, UK Skills
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| Sir Bob Kerslake | Chief Executive, Commission for Housing and Communities
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| Andrew Kilburn | Chief Executive, Oldham Metropolitan Council
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| Paul Lincoln | Chief Executive, National Heart Forum
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| David Lunts | Executive Director of Policy and Partnerships, Greater London Authority
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| Richard McCarthy | Director General, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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| Roisin McDonough | Chief Executive, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
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| Marie-Thérèse McGivern | Director of Development, Belfast City Council
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| Graham Mather | President, European Policy Forum
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| Sir Graham Meldrum | Chair, West Midlands Ambulance Service; Recently HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services
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| Sarah Mogel | Principal, West Cheshire College
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| Gillian Norton | Chief Executive, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
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| Ben Page | Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Public Affairs Institute
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| Neil Peden | Director, Greystone Financial Services
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| Patricia Peter | Head of Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors
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| Christopher Price | Former MP, Select Committee Chair and Vice Chancellor, Leeds Metropolitan University
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| Prof Vicky Pryce | Director General and Chief Economic Adviser, DBERR
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| Tony Redmond | Chairman, Commission for Local Administration in England (Ombudsman)
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| Jonathan Rees | Deputy Director General, Health and Safety Executive
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| David Roe | Director of Strategy, Department of Culture, Media and Sport
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| Julia Ross | National Programme Lead, Care Service Improvement Programme
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| David Scott | Principal, All Saints High School, Newcastle
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| Karamjit Singh | Member, Electoral Commission; Chair, Coventry/Warwickshire Mental Health Trust
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| Prof Angus Skinner | Director, Health and Care
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| Leigh-Anne Stradeski | Director, Eureka! The Museum for Children
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| Paddy Tomkins | HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland
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| Zoë van Zwanenberg | Chief Executive, Scottish Leadership Foundation
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| Mick Waters | Director of Curriculum, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
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| Michael Whitehouse | Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office
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| Diana Whitworth | Director, Grandparents Plus
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| Andrew Whyte | Executive Director, Advocacy and Communications, Arts Council England
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| Tom Wilson | Head of Organisation and Services, Trades Union Congress
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