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ABOUT US
HISTORY
CPPS was established in April 2004 as an independent organisation designing and delivering high-quality seminars with Government and other public bodies, with its head office in Hebden Bridge, in Pennine West Yorkshire. Its predecessor body, QMW Public Policy Seminars, was established in Hebden Bridge in 1993.
WHO WE ARE
STAFF AND DIRECTORS
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Sydney Roper Managing Director |
Sydney founded CPPS in 2004, having previously been the founder and Managing Director of QMW Seminars. In a long career in public service, he has worked in senior positions in a national quango, English and Welsh local government and higher education. He has also directed seminar programmes for the Universities of Birmingham and London, where he was a Professor in Public Policy.
Previously he was a department head and then regional chief officer of the Commission for Racial Equality, where he was responsible for promoting policy across the public and third sectors, managed offices in Manchester and Leeds and opened them in Edinburgh. He was deputy director of planning in a Welsh city and worked as a corporate and developmental planner in London local government. His first job was in a private surveying practice in Westminster, where he also grew up and went to school. He is a graduate of LSE and has a post graduate diploma from UCL. Away from work, he has chaired a comprehensive school governing body in Lambeth, a housing association in Swansea and a music festival in Yorkshire and has sat on national boards of bodies ranging from Save the Children to Stonham Housing. Sydney has overall responsibility for all of CPPS’s work and leads on planning and design of programmes. |
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Cheryl Shackleton Deputy Director and Director Designate |
Cheryl joined CPPS in early 2008 and was later promoted to Deputy Director.
Previously, for many years she was a researcher and lecturer in criminal justice and social policy at Bradford University, where she also conducted academic and vocational training of probation officers in association with Sheffield and Hull Universities. She has a BA and a MA from Bradford and is completing a PhD. She has been a research consultant in both local government and the community sector and a campaigner for cancer research. She is a school governor in Halifax. Cheryl has lead responsibility for delivery of CPPS programmes and will take on the Director’s mantle in August 2010. |  |
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Dr Anna Osborne Associate Director | Anna has worked for CPPS since 2005 and has been responsible for running many of its programmes. She is a historian with a PhD from Durham University and a MA from Edinburgh. She has had a range of other jobs in Europe, Africa and New Zealand and has her own garden design business. Anna now conducts special projects for CPPS. |  |
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Louise Rushworth Business Manager | Like Sydney, Louise has worked for CPPS, and QMW before it, since 1993. She was born and bred in Hebden Bridge and joined QMW following a training course after leaving school. She has been involved in most aspects of our work over the years. As Business Manager, she is responsible for managing both our offices and our marketing, handling and registering all bookings, dealing with customers, liaising with venues and suppliers, preparing materials for events and managing the website. |  |
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Kathryn Brooks Finance and Development Manager | Kathryn is a lawyer by training, with a Manchester LLB. She has worked for private law firms in Manchester and had her own business managing rock bands. She joined CPPS in 2009 and is now Finance Manager, responsible for all aspects of finance and credit control. She also event manages a range of seminars and is responsible for developing CPPS work into new areas of activity. |  |
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Joanna Gill Events Manager | Joanna is also a lawyer by training, with a London LL.B., who joined CPPS in 2008. She is an Associate of King’s College and a qualified solicitor. She has worked in private law firms in both Yorkshire and Lancashire and with the CPS, where she was a Senior Crown Prosecutor. She currently event manages a wide range of CPPS seminars from time of contributor invitation to delivery on the ground. |  |
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Linda Dean Events Manager | Linda started her career in banking and has been company secretary of a family furniture business in Calderdale. She has worked for the Countryside Foundation for Education, Wild Rose Heritage and Arts and Pecket Well College. She currently manages our Manchester seminars and conducts much of our marketing. |  |
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Harriet Clayton Intern | Harriet is studying for a degree in Events Management at Leeds Metropolitan University. She works for CPPS part-time, manages the diary and assists with marketing and other aspects of our work. |  |
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David Leedham I.T. Consultant | David provides support for the centre’s computer network and internet presence. |  |
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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 Joint Presidents, Lord Toby Harris and Graham Mather. The Vice Presidents are Karamjit Singh and Jacqui Henderson. Members are leading figures in central and local government, other public bodies, NGOs and business. | ||
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Lord Toby Harris President | Government Peer; Director, Toby Harris Associates; Chair, All Party Group on Policing; Chair, Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody; Former Chair, Association of London Government and Metropolitan Police Authority; Former Director, Association of Community Health Councils; Vice President, Local Government Association |  |
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Graham Mather President |
President, European Policy Forum; Member, Ofcom Consumer Panel; Director of Greenham Common Trust; adviser to Tudor Investment Corporation, and other companies, charities and public organisations; contributor to The Times and other journals. A lawyer educated at New College, Oxford : Burnet Law Scholar. Previously first Head of Policy, Institute of Directors, General Director, Institute of Economic Affairs; Member, Monopolies and Mergers Commission; MEP and member, Parliament's Social Affairs and Economic and Monetary Affairs Committees; Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal; Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford. |  |
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Jacqui Henderson Vice President |
Managing Director, CLASS, a new consultancy and project management company. Previously Chief Executive, Northumberland Training and Enterprise Council and then TEC National Council; Regional Director, LSC in Greater London; Chief Executive, UK Skills and member, WorldSkills 2011 Competition bid team. |  |
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Karamjit Singh Vice President |
Social Fund Commissioner for Great Britain and Northern Ireland from January 2010. Previously Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and Member, Electoral Commission, QC Selection Panel, Police Complaints Authority and Criminal Cases Review Commission. Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Ombudsman. Trustee, Citizenship Foundation, Lloyds TSB Foundation and British Lung Foundation. Former Harkness Fellow. |  |
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Members
| Dr Mohammad Bari | Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain |
| Martin Barnes | Chief Executive, Drugscope |
| Yasmin Batliwala | Chair, Westminster Drug Project; Recently Chair, Hertfordshire Police Authority |
| David Behan | Director General for Social Care, Department of Health |
| Jodi Berg | Independent Complaints Reviewer |
| Jon Coles | Director General for Schools, Department for Children, Schools and Families |
| Edward Collins | Regional Officer, ASCL; Recently Headteacher, Todmorden High School |
| Tony Colman | Director, Africa Practice |
| John Dunford | General Secretary, Association of School and College Leaders |
| Gareth Davies | Managing Director, Audit Commission |
| Bobby Duffy | Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute |
| Mervyn Eastman | President, Change AGEents |
| Naomi Eisenstadt | Recently Director, Social Exclusion Task Force, Cabinet Office |
| Lucy Fallon-Byrne | Director, National Centre for Partnership and Performance, Dublin |
| Mike Farrar | Chief Executive, NHS North West |
| Mike Granatt | Partner, Luther Pendragon; Former Head of GICS |
| Olivia Grant | Pro Chancellor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Director of Leadership Programmes, National Policing Improvement Agency |
| Jane Greenoak | Director of Customer and Corporate Services, National Housing Federation |
| Sue Hall | Chief Officer, West Yorkshire Probation |
| Jennifer Harris | Managing Director, JRBH Strategy and Management |
| Sir Deian Hopkin | Recently Vice Chancellor, London South Bank University; Chair, Student Loans Review |
| Prof Gus John | Chief Executive, GJP; Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde |
| Sir Bob Kerslake | Chief Executive, Homes and Communities Agency |
| Andrew Kilburn | Chief Executive, London Borough of Waltham Forest |
| Alexandra Jones | Associate Director, The Work Foundation |
| Paul Lincoln | Chief Executive, National Heart Forumv |
| Richard McCarthy | Director General, Department for Communities and Local Government |
| Roisin McDonough | Chief Executive, Arts Council of Northern Ireland |
| Marie-Thérèse McGivern | Director of Development, Belfast City Council |
| Sir Graham Meldrum | Chair, West Midlands Ambulance Service; Recently HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services |
| Una O’Brien | Director General, Policy and Strategy, Department of Health |
| Dr Ita O’Donovan | Chief Executive, London Borough of Haringey |
| Dr Linda Patterson | Consultant Physician, East Lancashire PCT; Former Medical Director, CHI |
| Neil Peden | Director, Greystone Financial Services |
| Sir Denis Pereira Gray | Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter; Former President, Royal College of GPs |
| Peter Pledger | Chief Executive, South London Business |
| Christopher Price | Former MP, Select Committee Chair and Vice Chancellor, Leeds Metropolitan University |
| Prof Vicky Pryce | Director General and Chief Economic Adviser, BIS |
| Tony Redmond | Chairman, Commission for Local Administration in England (Ombudsman) |
| Jonathan Rees | Director General, Government Equalities Office |
| Jo Robbins | Group Human Relations Director, VT Group plc |
| Joanne Roney | Chief Executive, City of Wakefield MDC |
| Alison Rose | Detective Chief Superintendent, West Yorkshire Police |
| Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | Director General, Royal Commonwealth Society |
| David Scott | Principal, All Saints High School, Newcastle |
| Adam Sharples | Director General, Department for Work and Pensions |
| Jo Shuter | Headteacher, Quintin/Kynaston School |
| Prof Angus Skinner | Former Chief Inspector of Social Work for Scotland; Consultant on Positive Psychology |
| Jonathan Slater | Director General, Business Transformation, Ministry of Justice |
| Paddy Tomkins | Recently HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland |
| Mick Waters | Professor of Education, Wolverhampton University; Recently Director of Curriculum, QCA |
| Michael Whitehouse | Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office |
| Diana Whitworth | Third Sector Consultant; Former Chief Executive, Carers UK and Grandparents Plus |
| Andrew Whyte | Director of Communications, Defra |
| Emily Thomas | Founding Director, Aequitas Consulting |
| Tom Wilson | Director, Unionlearn |
| Jackie Worrall | Director of Policy and Public Affairs, NACRO |
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| Our Address: 6 Hollins Place, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. HX7 8EU tel. 01422 845 004 fax. 01422 845 032 |