Speaker Profiles
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This conference took place on 30th November 2004. If you would like to order copies of the speaker's slide presentations, you can still do this using the booking page here.
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Stephen Burke, Director, Daycare Trust
 Stephen became Director of Daycare Trust in October 2000. He has more than twenty years' experience in public relations, journalism and fundraising. From 1996 to 2000, he was a public relations consultant to national organisations including Daycare Trust, Family Policy Studies Centre, Better Government for Older People, British Society of Gerontology and Development Trusts Association. Previously he was head of external relations for Community Service Volunteers and head of public relations for Crime Concern after spells with the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, National Union of Teachers and NALGO. His work has been recognised in several major PR awards. Stephen is currently a non-executive director of Hammersmith & Fulham Primary Care Trust. Since 1994 he has been a councillor in the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham where he was chair/cabinet lead member for social services from 1995-1999. He is chair of the Association of London Government's health and social care forum and chaired its recent Commission on Race, Health and Social Exclusion. He is also a primary school governor, on the management committee of an early excellence centre, and a trustee of several voluntary organisations.
Rt. Hon. Dawn Primarolo, Paymaster General, HM Treasury
Dawn Primarolo was appointed Paymaster General on 4th January 1999. She has strategic oversight of the UK tax system as a whole including direct, indirect and corporate taxation, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, VAT, European and international tax issues, tax credits and is responsible for the Treasury interest in childcare issues and the welfare reform group (welfare fraud). She is also the Departmental Minister for HM Revenue and Customs.
Member of Parliament for Bristol South since 1987, she was educated at Thomas Bennett Comprehensive in Crawley, Bristol Polytechnic and Bristol University. She has a BA (Hons) Social Science Degree. Before entering Parliament, she was a member of Avon County Council from 1985 to 1987.
In Opposition, she was front bench spokesperson on health from 1992 to 1994, and Treasury and economic affairs between 1994 and 1997. She was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 4th May 1997.
Born in 1954, she is married with one son. Her interests include gardening and opera. She is Patron of The Royal Chelsea Hospital, The Terrence Higgins Trust, Knowle West Against Drugs and Life Skills Project.
Liz Sewell, Consultant, Daycare Trust
 Liz Sewell is a Daycare Trust consultant specialising in childcare and employment. She is the author of the latest NHS childcare toolkit and is currently working on the first childcare toolkit for the Civil Service. Formerly, she was a chief executive of Gingerbread, director of Working for Childcare and assistant chief executive at the National Early Years Network. Recently she has worked with the charity One Parent Families on two pioneering return-to-work programmes: "Discovery weeks" for Jobcentre Plus and "Marks & Start" for Marks & Spencer. In her youth, she was vice-president of the National Union of Students and later a member of the government's New Deal taskforce working party on lone parents. She is currently chair of Prior Weston Primary School PTA and a member of the Corporation of London's early years development and childcare partnership. She has two daughters aged four and eight and lives in the City of London.
Publications include · NHS childcare - the new dimension, 2004 · Work + family - beyond compliance: an outline guide for employers, 2001 · Glue and glitter, children talking about working parents and childcare, with Margaret Creear, 1999 · Cheque lists - statutory funding for early years groups, with Irene Pilia, 1997 · Conferences, seminars and events - an organisers survival kit, 1995.
Carolyn Howes, Policy Advisor, Inland Revenue
 Carolyn Howes has worked for the Inland Revenue since 1989. She has held a variety of roles including as a manager in a PAYE tax office, a tax inspector and an adviser on HR strategy. She has also worked for the Cabinet Office on the Civil Service reform agenda. Most recently she has worked in the Revenue's International Division and since June 2002 has worked in the Personal Tax policy area as an adviser on employer-provided benefits, specialising specifically on transport benefits and childcare.
Teresa Payne, Director - Human Capital, Ernst & Young
 Teresa Payne is a Tax Director within Ernst & Young's national Human Capital practice. The Human Capital practice is a leading provider in the employment taxation space. It provides quality and cost-effective reward, tax and employment solutions to help companies maximise the value from their investment in people. Teresa joined the accountancy profession from the Inland Revenue 15 years ago and specialises in all aspects of employment taxation (Pay As You Earn, National Insurance, expenses and benefits in kind) and is an experienced author and speaker.
Naomi Eisenstadt, Director, Surestart
 Naomi Eisenstadt has a long history of working in the early years field. Having gained a Diploma in Early Childhood Education from the University of California, she came to Britain in 1974, and worked in nurseries in Edinburgh and then Milton Keynes. In Milton Keynes she established Moorland Children's Centre and was involved in developing early years services in the new town. More recently she has worked for the Open University, NCVO, and Save the Children. She is currently Director of the Sure Start Unit, which is responsible for delivering programmes in disadvantaged areas joining up health, education, and social care services for under fives, as well as the national childcare strategy including out of school provision. She is also a non-executive director of a primary care trust.
Nancy Weeden, Childcare Service Manager, Sodexho Pass
 Nancy Weeden is a working mother with three children. Nancy has worked for Sodexho Pass for over 4 years. Her position as Childcare Service Manager keeps her fully involved in all aspects of how childcare voucher schemes operate and what the changes in childcare legislation and the associated benefits will mean to employers in April 2005.
Susan Hay, Chairman Europe, Bright Horizons
 Ms Hay is responsible for positioning Bright Horizons' business in Europe. This includes provision of early care and education centres, as independent ventures and sponsored by employers, and consultancy services related to work life strategy and corporate community participation. Founder of Nurseryworks, the London-based child care company acquired by Bright Horizons in 2000, Ms Hay is Vice Chair of the Daycare Trust, a Panel Member for DfES Investors in Children scheme, a Member of the European Work Life and Diversity Council, and is actively involved in Business in the Community and the Royal Society of Arts. She is also a member of the Steering Group for The Tavistock Institute's Infant Mental Health in Child Care Project, and a Governor of Robert Blair School in LB Islington.
Andrew Smith, Head of Regeneration, Tesco
Andrew has been Regeneration Manager at Tesco since May 2003, where he co-ordinates the Tesco Regeneration Partnership programme and develops it's forward strategy. Over the last 5 years the Partnership programme has delivered over 3,000 job opportunities to the long term unemployed and other disadvantaged groups through the innovative Tesco Job Guarantee, a flexible learning programme, and a range of family-friendly employment practices. Prior to his role at Tesco Andrew was Property, Planning, and Regeneration Executive at the British Retail Consortium. He graduated from St Andrew's University before undertaking a Public Policy MSc at Strathclyde University. He is Vice-Chair of the British Retail Consortium Property Advisory Group and a member of the British Urban Regeneration Association's Steering and Development Forum.
Judith Aldridge, HR Projects and Business Manager, Barts and the London NHS Trust
 After working in the Finance Departments of British Gas and GEC Marconi, Judith joined the NHS in 1993 as a Finance Manager. In 1998 she moved across to the Human Resources Directorate of Barts and The London NHS Trust in order to use my financial and business skills to assist in delivering the HR agenda where she has remained ever since as Business and Projects Manager.
In the past six years, from a base of not offering staff any assistance with childcare, Judith has project managed the building of two in-house nurseries, formulated and implemented a childcare strategy for the Trust, including the appointment of a childcare co-ordinator; provision of holiday clubs; implementing a maternity returners scheme; and introducing childcare vouchers, and have provided financial and taxation advice in respect of childcare to make this as cost effective as possible for parents. Besides being responsible for the budget management of the HR department (£4.5m), including development of business cases for external funding streams of £1.7m p.a. Judith is currently leading a project implementing improved controls over the usage of temporary staff, including better HR/Finance systems; provision of management information; monitoring of agency contracts; and reducing reliance on agency workers.
Rt. Hon. Teresa May MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Family
 Theresa was born in 1956 and educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford University, from 1974-77, gaining an MA in Geography. She is married to Philip and they live in Sonning, in the Maidenhead constituency. Theresa was elected Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in May 1997. She was Shadow Spokesman for Schools, Disabled People and Women from 1998 to June 1999. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment in June 1999.
In September 2001, she was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government & the Regions, becoming Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in June 2002, following the break-up of the DTLR. In July she was promoted to Chairman of the Conservative Party, where she successfully broadened the Party's appeal, and encouraged a more diverse candidate selection. In November 2003 she became Shadow Secretary of State for Environment and Transport, as a key member of Michael Howard's streamlined Shadow Cabinet.
In June 2004 Theresa moved to the new post of Shadow Secretary of State for the Family, charged with driving family friendly policies to the forefront of the political debate. Theresa was a Member of the Select Committee on Education and Employment (1997-98); Joint Secretary of the Back Bench Home Affairs Committee (1997-98); Joint Chairman of the All Party Disablement Group (1997-98); and Chairman of the Conservative Disability Group (1997-98). She contested the constituency of North West Durham in the 1992 General Election and Barking in a 1994 by-election. As a councillor in the London Borough of Merton between 1986-1994, Theresa was Chairman of Education between 1988-1990 and Deputy Group Leader and Housing Spokesman between 1992-1994. Having worked in the banking industry, Theresa has held posts at the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) as Head of the European Affairs Unit from 1989-1996, and Senior Adviser on International Affairs between 1996-97.
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