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My experience in local government, education, the emergency services, community organisations and my professional work supporting people affected by hate crime has taught me the importance of listening, building bridges between people and delivering practical change.
Professionally, I spent five years working in the emergency services and now work to tackle hate crime across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
This is all a huge crime against humanity, and I would hope to help Synod work harder to combat these evils.
The Crime and Policing Act 2026 creates a duty of mandatory reporting of abuse, but this only applies to regulated activities.
Diocesan Responsibilities: Elected Diocesan Synod member, Vacancy in See Committee member, Crown Nomination Commission member, Canon Emerita, Bradford Cathedral Chapter Non-Executive Director, member of Bradford Anglican Council for Social Aid (grant making, Bradford Episcopal area), Chair – Bradford Hate Crime Alliance (charity), member of Crown Prosecution Service Regional Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel member.
It is about mission — and about tackling poverty, exclusion, youth crime and the inequalities that affect our communities.
General Synod - Member since 2015: ¢ Contributed to General Synod debates on safeguarding, criminal justice, knife crime and rehabilitation e Presented the Diocesan motion to General Synod in 2023 to support the rehabilitation of offenders.
must speak out against the rising hate crime in this country.
The result is that these young people easily get locked in lives of drugs and crime, with no hope & no way out.
There is a significant shortfall in early preparation for those from disadvantaged communities, and it my hope that there can be training programs put in place that will allow a flourishing of talent from less fortunate backgrounds, and from those who have turned to Jesus from lives of crime.
for the good running of our Police Force and Police and Crime Commissioner.
The outer estates context of my ministry, and my involvement in issues of food poverty, knife crime and flags, have given me valuable insights into the ways in which the church needs to both respond to, and influence political debates around, economic inequality and national identity.
I use my business experience to mentor boards and leaders of charities to help them to become resilient and secure, I have worked in recent years with charities as diverse as homelessness support, gun crime reduction and support for eating disorders.
The latest effort to introduce Assisted Suicide is a huge sadness and the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth under the Crime and Policing Act is a tragedy.
I have been the Chairman of Dorset Police and Crime Authority, having the ability to understand the problems of retaining Law and Order.
I was a Justice of the Peace for almost 30 years, and became the Chairman of Dorset Magistrates Association, studying ways of dealing with crime, and attending meetings in London to reflect on ways to prevent crime in the community.
I worked in law enforcement for another ten years before retiring at 65 from the National Crime Agency (NCA).
I practised for over forty years and led for the Crown and for the defence in several significant cases and became a Recorder, sitting in Crime, Civil and Family.
Drugs, low-level crime and anger became part of my life.
The Day Job I am now retired and a proud bus pass user I previously worked as an Accountant at Staffordshire County Council, supporting commissioners in managing annual budgets in excess of £100m After retiring I spent three years as an independent member of the Risk and Audit Committee for the Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner in Staffordshire