Patrons
Baroness Walmsley is the British Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Children, Schools and Families in the House of Lords. Her political interests are child protection, young offenders and prison education, the environment and renewable energy. She is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children.
In addition to WAVE, she is active in charity work relating to children and the environment. Her principal charities are: UNICEF UK (Board Member); NSPCC (Parliamentary Ambassador); SKVC Children’s Trust, a charity for street children in India (Patron); and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (Chairman).
Lord Ramsbotham sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer. He is Vice-Chair of both the All Party Penal Affairs Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Learning & Skills in the Criminal Justice System. He is President of UNLOCK, The National Association of Ex-Offenders, and an Ambassador for the charity, the Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT).
He was elected an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2001, and is on the advisory board of the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College London.
Iain Duncan Smith is the British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the cabinet of David Cameron. He is Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green. Iain was Conservative Party Leader from 2001-2003.
Born in Edinburgh, he was educated in Anglesey and Sandhurst before joining the Scots Guards in 1975.
Iain's passionate interest in the preventive approach to resolving social problems also finds expression in his current role as Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, a policy group independent of the Conservative Party.
In 2008 he and the Labour MP for Nottingham North, Graham Allen, collaborated with WAVE to produce a booklet promoting a long-term joint party approach to prevention and early-years intervention to reduce violence, child maltreatment and other dysfunction. In his introduction to Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens, Iain says: ‘We need to intervene early and think in terms of prevention at the earliest point possible’.
