Janet Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker
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Janet Alison Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker (b. February 20, 1936) is a British politician (Labour).
Councils, public bodies: Magistrate 1985-2006;
Member: Employment Tribunal 1995-2000;
Immigration Complaints Audit Committee 1998-99;
Non-executive Director, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust 1997-2001;
Chair, Working Men's College
for Men and Women 1998-2001;
Advisory Council, Transparency International (UK) 2001-;
Deputy Chair and Chair Camden Racial Equality Council 1996-99;
Deputy chair ITC 2001-03;
Council Member, Overseas Development Institute 2003-;
Advisory Board, British Institute of Human Rights 2005-;
Member UNA-UK Advisory Panel
Name, style and title: Raised to the peerage as Baroness Whitaker, of Beeston in the County of Nottinghamshire 1999
In June 1999, she was included in Tony Blairs's new list of working peers and was created the Life Peer
Baroness Whitaker. Chairwoman of the Working Men's College Corporation 1999 to 2002. She is also Vice-President of the British Humanist Association
http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters.
Councils, public bodies: Magistrate 1985-2006;
Member: Employment Tribunal 1995-2000;
Immigration Complaints Audit Committee 1998-99;
Non-executive Director, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust 1997-2001;
Chair, Working Men's College
Working Men's College
The Working Men's College- WMC, being among the earliest adult education institutions established in the United Kingdom, is Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education and perhaps one of its smallest...
for Men and Women 1998-2001;
Advisory Council, Transparency International (UK) 2001-;
Deputy Chair and Chair Camden Racial Equality Council 1996-99;
Deputy chair ITC 2001-03;
Council Member, Overseas Development Institute 2003-;
Advisory Board, British Institute of Human Rights 2005-;
Member UNA-UK Advisory Panel
Name, style and title: Raised to the peerage as Baroness Whitaker, of Beeston in the County of Nottinghamshire 1999
In June 1999, she was included in Tony Blairs's new list of working peers and was created the Life Peer
Life peer
In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...
Baroness Whitaker. Chairwoman of the Working Men's College Corporation 1999 to 2002. She is also Vice-President of the British Humanist Association
British Humanist Association
The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism and represents "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs." The BHA is committed to secularism, human rights, democracy, egalitarianism and mutual respect...
http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters.