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'''Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|sep=,|size=100%}} (born 19 April 1959) is a British disability rights campaigner and ]. She was Commissioner of the ] (EHRC) from 2006 to 2008. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the ]. She was Commissioner of the ] until it was wound up in October 2006. '''Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|sep=,|size=100%}} (born 19 April 1959) is a British disability rights campaigner and a ] in the ]. She was Commissioner of the ] (EHRC), and served as the Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the ]. She was a Commissioner at the ] (DRC).


==Early life== ==Early life==
Campbell grew up in ]. Her father, Ron, was a heating engineer and her mother, Jesse, was a window dresser in a gown shop. At the age of nine months Campbell did not have the strength in her neck muscles to hold her head up, and exhibited little movement by the age of one year. Her mother consulted the family doctor who referred her to the local ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Cole |first=Moreton |date=9 Dec 2012 |title=Disabled people are the best problem solvers |pages=21 |work=Sunday Telegraph}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Lucy |date=9 Dec 2022 |title=From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the 'cripple suffragette' - 10 heroes of the disability rights movement |work=The Guardian }}</ref> Campbell grew up in ]. Her father, Ron, was a heating engineer and her mother, Jesse, was a window dresser in a gown shop. At the age of nine months Campbell did not have the strength in her neck muscles to hold her head up, and exhibited little movement by the age of one year. Her mother consulted the family doctor who referred her to the local ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Cole |first=Moreton |date=9 Dec 2012 |title=Disabled people are the best problem solvers |pages=21 |work=Sunday Telegraph}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Lucy |date=9 Dec 2022 |title=From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the 'cripple suffragette' - 10 heroes of the disability rights movement |work=The Guardian }}</ref>


She was subsequently referred to ] where she was diagnosed with ] and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Salman |first=Saba |date=13 July 2015 |title=Disability Rights campaigner Jane Campbell - In the Lords, I'm still a radical activist |pages=37 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> She was subsequently referred to ] where she was diagnosed with ] and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Condon |first=Kate |date=18 March 2001 |title=Cash: My Money: In control - and causing trouble |pages=36 |work=The Observer}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Salman |first=Saba |date=13 July 2015 |title=Disability Rights campaigner Jane Campbell - In the Lords, I'm still a radical activist |pages=37 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>


==Education== ==Education==
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==Career== ==Career==
In 1984 she started her career in local government as Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer, in ] (GLC) followed by Disability Training Development Officer role, London Boroughs Disability Resource Team (LBDRT) where she ran the Disability Equality and Awareness Training unit.<ref name=":3" />
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In years 1984-1986 she started her career in local government as Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer, in Greater London Council (GLC) followed by Disability Training Development Officer role, London Boroughs Disability Resource Team (LBDRT) where she ran the Disability Equality and Awareness Training unit. In 1987 she was appointed as a Principal Disability Advisor for London Borough of Hounslow. After a year she returned to the LBDRT as Director of Training were she remained until she established her own disability consultancy in 1994. At the same time she co-chaired British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) with Lucille Lusk.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Jane |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35596876 |title=Disability politics : understanding our past, changing our future |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |others=Michael Oliver |isbn=0-415-07998-5 |location=London |oclc=35596876}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />


In 1996 Campbell co-founded and co-directed with Frances Hassler the ] (NCIL)<ref>{{Cite web |title=NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (NCIL) people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04701388/officers |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> where she worked for six years before being appointed by the Minister for Social Care to chair SCIE. As chair at the ] and co-director at NCIL, Campbell saw these organisations through pioneering work in the field of independent living, civil rights, peer counselling and equal opportunities. In 1996 she co-authored a book entitled ''Disability Politics''<ref name=":0" />, and was appointed a ] (DBE) in the Queen's 2001 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hunt |first=Judy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108503896 |title=No limits : the disabled people's movement : a radical history |date=2019 |isbn=1-913148-02-5 |location=Manchester |oclc=1108503896}}</ref> In 1987 she was appointed as a Principal Disability Advisor for ]. After a year she returned to the LBDRT as Director of Training were she remained until she established her own disability consultancy in 1994. At the same time she co-chaired the ] (BCODP) with Lucille Lusk.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=Jane |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35596876 |title=Disability politics : understanding our past, changing our future |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |others=Michael Oliver |isbn=0-415-07998-5 |location=London |oclc=35596876}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />


In 1996 Campbell co-founded and co-directed with Frances Hassler the ] (NCIL)<ref>{{Cite web |title=NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (NCIL) people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04701388/officers |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> where she worked for six years before being appointed by the Minister for Social Care to chair SCIE. As chair at the ] and co-director at NCIL, Campbell saw these organisations through pioneering work in the field of independent living, civil rights, peer counselling and equal opportunities.<ref name=":3" /> In 1996 she co-authored a book entitled ''Disability Politics''<ref name=":0" />, and was appointed a ] (DBE) in the Queen's 2001 Birthday Honours.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Hunt |first=Judy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108503896 |title=No limits : the disabled people's movement : a radical history |date=2019 |isbn=1-913148-02-5 |location=Manchester |oclc=1108503896}}</ref>
⚫ In 2003, Campbell was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from ] and another in social sciences from ].

⚫ In 2003, Campbell was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from ] and another in social sciences from ].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

She was Commissioner of the ] (EHRC) from 2006 to 2008. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Merrick |first=Rob |date=25 March 2020 |title=Disabled people will be seen as 'expendable' under coronavirus emergency powers, Paralympian fears |work=The Independent }}</ref> She was the former Chair of the ].<ref name=":1" /> She was Commissioner of the ] until it was wound up in October 2006.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />


In February 2007, it was announced by the ] that she would be made a ] and would sit as a ]. Her ] was ] as '''Baroness Campbell of Surbiton''', ''of ] in the ]'' on 30 March 2007.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58292|date=3 April 2007 |page=4860}}</ref> In February 2007, it was announced by the ] that she would be made a ] and would sit as a ]. Her ] was ] as '''Baroness Campbell of Surbiton''', ''of ] in the ]'' on 30 March 2007.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58292|date=3 April 2007 |page=4860}}</ref>

In her campaigning record, items of note include the creation and later closure of the ] (ILF),<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> the creation of the Community Care (]) Act 1996,<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kendra |first=Inman |date=2 Sep 1998 |title=Disability: I'm in charge |pages=8 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> the loss of some disabled people's welfare benefits,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ashley |first=Jackie |date=23 March 2016 |title=Try life in a wheelchair and then tell me disabled people have equal rights |pages=45 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> the disproportionate impact of the ] on disabled people's lives,<ref name=":6" /> and attempts in Parliament and the appeal courts to change the law on ].<ref name=":1" />


==Personal life== ==Personal life==
Campbell met her first husband, Graham Ingleson, at ]; they married when she was 27 years old. He was a ], and six weeks before the wedding they discovered that he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, from which he later died.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 Oct 2019 |title=It's time for truth about the scandal of infected blood |pages=26 |work=The Times }}</ref> She currently lives in ] with her second husband Roger Symes, a businessman.<ref name=guardian/> Campbell met her first husband, Graham Ingleson, at ]; they married when she was 27 years old. He was a ], and six weeks before the wedding they discovered that he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, from which he later died.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=9 Oct 2019 |title=It's time for truth about the scandal of infected blood |pages=26 |work=The Times }}</ref> She currently lives in ] with her second husband Roger Symes, a businessman.<ref name=guardian/>


Because of her physical weakness Campbell requires help to do almost everything and needs a ventilator to help her breathe at night. She uses an electrically powered ]<ref name=thigui-JC/> and has a computer on which she types with one finger. As of 2009, she received a direct payment from the local authority for her care needs, which enabled her to employ five female carers to help her with the routine activities of daily living.<ref name=thigui-JC/> Because of her physical weakness Campbell requires help to do almost everything and needs a ventilator to help her breathe at night. She uses an electrically powered ]<ref name=thigui-JC/> and has a computer on which she types with one finger. As of 2009, she received a direct payment from the local authority for her care needs, which enabled her to employ five female carers to help her with the routine activities of daily living.<ref name=thigui-JC/>

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British disability reform advocate (born 1959)

The Right HonourableThe Baroness Campbell
of SurbitonDBE
upright=https://baronesscampbellofsurbiton.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jane_Portrait_on_Patio-scaled.jpg
Born (1959-04-19) 19 April 1959 (age 65)
London, England
Known forCampaigner and adviser for disability reforms
TitleLady Campbell of Surbiton
Campbell's voice from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 5 August 2012
Websitehttps://baronesscampbellofsurbiton.uk/

Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, DBE (born 19 April 1959) is a British disability rights campaigner and a life peer in the House of Lords. She was Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and served as the Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). She was a Commissioner at the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).

Early life

Campbell grew up in New Malden. Her father, Ron, was a heating engineer and her mother, Jesse, was a window dresser in a gown shop. At the age of nine months Campbell did not have the strength in her neck muscles to hold her head up, and exhibited little movement by the age of one year. Her mother consulted the family doctor who referred her to the local Kingston Hospital.

She was subsequently referred to Great Ormond Street Hospital where she was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.

Education

Campbell went to a segregated school for disabled children where academic achievement was not the top priority. Her best friend, who had a hole in the heart, died at the age of 13 years. She left school at the age of 16 years with no qualifications and hardly able to read or write, but she nevertheless regarded herself as quite intelligent.

In 1975 she enrolled at Hereward College, Tile Hill, Coventry; a special college for disabled students where there was an academic environment, and where she was generally able to enjoy the life-style of an ordinary teenager. While there she gained six O-levels and three A-levels within three years. From Coventry she went to Hatfield Polytechnic, and then became an MA at the University of Sussex with a dissertation on Sylvia Pankhurst.

Career

In 1984 she started her career in local government as Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer, in Greater London Council (GLC) followed by Disability Training Development Officer role, London Boroughs Disability Resource Team (LBDRT) where she ran the Disability Equality and Awareness Training unit.

In 1987 she was appointed as a Principal Disability Advisor for London Borough of Hounslow. After a year she returned to the LBDRT as Director of Training were she remained until she established her own disability consultancy in 1994. At the same time she co-chaired the British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) with Lucille Lusk.

In 1996 Campbell co-founded and co-directed with Frances Hassler the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) where she worked for six years before being appointed by the Minister for Social Care to chair SCIE. As chair at the British Council of Disabled People and co-director at NCIL, Campbell saw these organisations through pioneering work in the field of independent living, civil rights, peer counselling and equal opportunities. In 1996 she co-authored a book entitled Disability Politics, and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's 2001 Birthday Honours.

In 2003, Campbell was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from Bristol University and another in social sciences from Sheffield Hallam University.

She was Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from 2006 to 2008. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which led on to the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). She was Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission until it was wound up in October 2006.

In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that she would be made a life peer and would sit as a crossbencher. Her peerage was gazetted as Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, of Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames on 30 March 2007.

In her campaigning record, items of note include the creation and later closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF), the creation of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996, the loss of some disabled people's welfare benefits, the disproportionate impact of the covid-19 pandemic on disabled people's lives, and attempts in Parliament and the appeal courts to change the law on assisted dying.

Personal life

Campbell met her first husband, Graham Ingleson, at Hereward College; they married when she was 27 years old. He was a haemophiliac, and six weeks before the wedding they discovered that he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, from which he later died. She currently lives in Tolworth with her second husband Roger Symes, a businessman.

Because of her physical weakness Campbell requires help to do almost everything and needs a ventilator to help her breathe at night. She uses an electrically powered wheelchair and has a computer on which she types with one finger. As of 2009, she received a direct payment from the local authority for her care needs, which enabled her to employ five female carers to help her with the routine activities of daily living.

References

  1. "Baroness Campbell". Desert Island Discs. 5 August 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ Cole, Moreton (9 December 2012). "Disabled people are the best problem solvers". Sunday Telegraph. p. 21.
  3. ^ Webster, Lucy (9 December 2022). "From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the 'cripple suffragette' - 10 heroes of the disability rights movement". The Guardian .
  4. ^ Condon, Kate (18 March 2001). "Cash: My Money: In control - and causing trouble". The Observer. p. 36.
  5. ^ Salman, Saba (13 July 2015). "Disability Rights campaigner Jane Campbell - In the Lords, I'm still a radical activist". The Guardian. p. 37.
  6. ^ Birkett, Dea (11 July 2009). "I'm bossy. I'm ambitious. I love ideas. And I love life: Dea Birkett meets Jane Campbell, a Life Peer with spinal muscular atrophy". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  7. ^ "The House I Grew Up In, with Baroness Campbell". The House I Grew Up In. 1 September 2009. BBC Radio 4.
  8. ^ Campbell, Jane (1998). Disability politics : understanding our past, changing our future. Michael Oliver. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07998-5. OCLC 35596876.
  9. "NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (NCIL) people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  10. ^ Hunt, Judy (2019). No limits : the disabled people's movement : a radical history. Manchester. ISBN 1-913148-02-5. OCLC 1108503896.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Merrick, Rob (25 March 2020). "Disabled people will be seen as 'expendable' under coronavirus emergency powers, Paralympian fears". The Independent .
  12. "No. 58292". The London Gazette. 3 April 2007. p. 4860.
  13. Kendra, Inman (2 September 1998). "Disability: I'm in charge". The Guardian. p. 8.
  14. Ashley, Jackie (23 March 2016). "Try life in a wheelchair and then tell me disabled people have equal rights". The Guardian. p. 45.
  15. "It's time for truth about the scandal of infected blood". The Times . 9 October 2019. p. 26.
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