Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher
| The Baroness Meacher | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Molly Christine Reid 15 May 1940 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Crossbencher |
| Spouse(s) |
Michael Meacher (1962- div. 1987) Richard Layard (1991-) |
Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher, (born Molly Christine Reid, 15 May 1940), known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard, is a British life peer and former social worker.
Meacher was educated at the Berkhamsted School for Girls, the University of York, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1970, and the University of London, where she received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 1980.
She worked for the Social Services in North London and for the Mental Health Foundation in the 1980s.
From 1991 to 1994 Meacher was chief adviser to the Russian Government on employment. Following that she became a board member, deputy chair and acting chair of the Police Complaints Authority, posts she held until 2002.
Between 2002 and 2004, she was chair of Security Industry Authority, and in 2004, she was appointed chair of the East London and City Mental Health Trust.
She was chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee for The Central and North West London NHS Trust from 2004 to 2008.
She was chair from 2007 to 2012 of the East London NHS Foundation Trust.
She is president of The Haemophilia Society.
On 2 May 2006, she was made a life peer as Baroness Meacher of Spitalfields, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and sits as a crossbencher. She has been involved in a number of Bills including:
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