The Baroness Morgan of Huyton | |
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Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | |
Assumed office 1 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Nicola Padfield |
Downing Street Director of Government Relations | |
In office 10 November 2001 –12 May 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Anji Hunter |
Succeeded by | Ruth Turner |
Minister of State for Women | |
In office 11 June 2001 –9 November 2001 Servingwith Barbara Roche | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Tessa Jowell |
Succeeded by | Barbara Roche |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 21 June 2001 Life Peerage | |
Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
In office 1997–2001 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Howell James |
Succeeded by | Robert Hill |
Personal details | |
Born | Sally Morgan 28 June 1959 |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | Durham University King's College London |
Sally Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 28 June 1959),is a British Labour Party politician,and Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge. She is the former Chair of Ofsted. [1] [2]
Morgan was educated at Belvedere School for Girls,then a direct grant grammar school in Liverpool,and at Durham University,from where she graduated in 1980 with a BA in geography. After taking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at King's College London in 1981,she worked as a teacher at Beverley School in New Malden,Surrey from 1981 to 1985. She later received an MA in Education from the Institute of Education,London. In the early 1980s,she was active in student politics. As a member of the Labour Students,she was an active member of the British Youth Council Executive Committee. [1] [3]
From 1985,she worked for the Labour Party at Walworth Road,under Neil Kinnock then later when John Smith became leader. She worked for the Party under Tony Blair before joining Blair's political office in 10 Downing Street following the 1997 general election. [3] She was made a life peer as Baroness Morgan of Huyton,of Huyton in the County of Merseyside ,on 20 June 2001. [4]
She was Minister of State for Women in the Cabinet Office from June to November 2001 before rejoining 10 Downing Street as Director of Government Relations. [5] Her Cabinet Office responsibilities for equal opportunities and the women's unit were transferred to Barbara Roche. [6] She left Downing Street in 2005. [3] She was one of the three advisors Blair was most dependent upon,along with Jonathan Powell and Alastair Campbell. [7]
In April 2006 she was appointed a board member of the Olympic Delivery Authority. In November 2005 she was appointed as a non-executive director of The Carphone Warehouse Group plc, [8] as well as being a non-executive director of TalkTalk from 2005 to 2010,and on the Lloyds Pharmacy health care advisory panel. [9] [10] She was a non-executive director of Southern Cross Healthcare from 2006 until it had severe financial problems in 2011,before the company declared insolvency the following year. [11] [12] She also serves as Advisor to the Board of the children's charity and Academy Schools Chain Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) [8] and has been chair of the board of Trustees of The Future Leaders Trust,as well as its successor organisations,since 2006. [13]
In July 2017 Morgan was appointed as senior non-executive director of building and support services company Carillion,serving on the audit,business integrity,nomination,remuneration and sustainability committees. [14] [15] The company,which had many large government contracts and 43,000 staff,went into liquidation in January 2018, [16] with the UK Government ordering a fast-track investigation into the directors to consider possible misconduct. [17] [18]
In 2007 and 2008 Morgan chaired an inquiry into young adult volunteering,named The Morgan Inquiry,sponsored by the All-Party Parliamentary Scout Group and supported by The Scout Association. [19]
She was appointed chair of Ofsted by the Conservative-led government from March 2011 and left that post in autumn 2014.
Morgan is a trustee of the Education Policy Institute,a Westminster-based research institute. [20]
In February 2019,it was announced that Morgan would succeed Nicola Padfield as Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge in October 2019. She was officially admitted on 1 October,and is the college's 9th Master. [21]
Huyton is married to barrister John Lyons,whom she met while at Durham. They have been married for 35 years and have two adult sons. [22]
Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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The Office for Standards in Education,Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government,reporting to Parliament. Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education,training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students. Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions,including state schools and some independent schools. It also inspects childcare,adoption and fostering agencies and initial teacher training,and regulates early years childcare facilities and children's social care services.
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Mair Eluned Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Ely is a Welsh Labour politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government since 2021. Morgan has served as a Member of the House of Lords since 2011 and as a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2016. She was previously Minister for the Welsh Language from 2017 to 2021,Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2020 to 2021,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009.
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Professor Nicola Margaret Padfield KC (hon) is a British barrister and academic. She is a former Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge. and was succeeded to the position in October 2019 by Sally Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Huyton. She is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law,University of Cambridge. In addition to her academic work,she was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014,and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
Rona Alison Fairhead,Baroness Fairhead,,is a life peer and businesswoman. She served as a minister of state at the Department for International Trade from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that,she was the last chairman of the BBC Trust before its abolition and the first woman to hold the post.
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