Baroness Claire Tyler appointed as new Chair of the
Cafcass Board
Baroness Claire Tyler has been appointed by the
Secretary of State for Education as the new Chair of the Cafcass
Board.
Speaking of her appointment, Baroness Tyler, who joins Cafcass
from Relate said, “Cafcass works with 150,000 children each year
and I am delighted to be appointed as its Chair. Its vitally
important work brings together two areas that are very dear to my
heart – protecting children from the negative impact of family
breakdown and improving the outcomes for children in care. I have
been impressed by the progress that the organisation has made in
recent times and look forward to helping it to shape the future of
services within the family justice system to meet the needs of
children and families caught up in these difficult cases.”
Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive welcomed
Claire’s appointment saying, “We are thrilled to be welcoming
Claire as the new Chair of the Board. She has a great track record
and has professional, political and personal credibility and nous.
It is already clear she will make a strong and effective
contribution to the next stage of Cafcass. I am looking forward to
working with her and continuing to drive forward service
improvement in Cafcass and in the wider family justice system.”
Baroness Tyler joins Cafcass on
23rd January 2012 from Relate, the UK’s leading
relationship support agency where she has been Chief Executive
since 2007. She has previously held a number of senior positions
within Government, most recently as Director of the Vulnerable
Children’s Group at the DfES (now the Department for Education)
where she led the work on the Green and White Papers on children in
care. As Head of the Government’s Social Exclusion Unit Claire led
the team that produced a major report on children in care, as well
as reports to improve the life chances of others vulnerable groups
of both children and adults. Claire has also chaired the ‘Kids in
the Middle’ coalition, a group of national charities and agony
aunts campaigning for better services for separating parents and
their children and was Deputy Chief Executive of Connexions, the
youth support service. She is a working Peer in the House of
Lords.
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