Claire Tyler, Baroness Tyler of Enfield

Claire Tyler, Baroness Tyler of Enfield is Chief Executive Officer of Relate, the UK’s leading relationship support charity. She is also a Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords.^[1]

Claire Tyler joined Relate in August 2007 ^[2] after a number of senior positions within the UK government, most recently Director of the Vulnerable Children’s Group at the DfES (now the Department for Education). Her life peerage was announced on 19 November 2010.^[3] She was created Baroness Tyler of Enfield, of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, on 28 January 2011.

Before then, Claire had been the Director of the UK government’s Social Exclusion Unit and a board member of the former Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from April 2002 until June 2006. From July 2000 to April 2002, Claire was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Connexions Service National Unit.

Claire was most recently founding Chair of ‘Kids in the Middle’ ^[4] coalition, a group of national charities and agony aunts campaigning for better services for separating parents and their children.

After graduating with a BSc in law and politics from the University of Southampton, Claire joined the Greater London Council/Inner London Education Authority in 1978, and in 1988 she joined the Civil Service. Claire also has a Diploma in Management Studies and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is joint chair of the Social Policy Forum and sits on the Executive Committee of the Public Management and Policy Association (a subsidiary arm of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy). From 2002-06, Claire sat on the Poverty and Disadvantage Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

As a panelist on BBC Radio 4's "Any Questions", 8 April 2011, she revealed that after graduating from University, she was interviewed in a discreet London location.

An interview, she believed, was carried out by the Security Services.

She was not recruited.

References

1. ^ "UK Parliament Biography". http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/claire-tyler/21638. Retrieved 5 March 2011. 
2. ^ O'Hara, Mary (2 January 2008). "Profile in the Guardian, 2 January 2008". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/02/voluntarysector.children. Retrieved 6 April 2011. 
3. ^ "Latest Peerages announced - 10 Downing Street". http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/11/peerages-honours-and-appointments-2-57256. Retrieved 13 February 2011. 
4. ^ "Kids in the Middle". http://kidsinthemiddle.org.uk/. Retrieved 6 April 2011. 

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