Welcome to my web pages. Thank you for taking the time to have a look. I hope you find something of interest or use to you within my pages.
If you want to contact me by email please click on the link to the right of this text. However if you would prefer to write to me in the old fashioned way on paper then my FREEPOST address is
Councillors Ann & Dick Cains
FREEPOST NEA 13261
Stockton on Tees
TS20 1BR
Below are some brief details of my experience which may be of interest to you.
I was the Election Agent for Frank Cook MP during the 2001 General Election
Member of Socialist Education Association
Member of Socialist Health Association
Trainer of school governors 1989 to 1996
Lay Inspector of schools for Ofsted 1994 - 1999
Secretary to Norton West Ward Branch of the Labour Party
Public office
Non-Executive Director of North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust 1997 to 2002
Elected as Councillor for Glebe Ward (now called Norton West) 1995
Re-elected as Councillor for Glebe Ward in 1999, again in 2003, 2005 and 2007
Governor then Member of the Corporation of Stockton Sixth Form College 1986 to 2002
Council Positions
Currently:-
Chair of Adult Services and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Member of the Schools Forum
Member of Corporate and Social Inclusion Committee
Member of Executive Scrutiny
Member of Children and Young People Select Committee
Member of Joint Tees Valley Health Scrutiny Committee
Champion for Dignity in Care
Formerly:-
Mayor of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees 2003 -2004
Trustee of Tees Active Ltd. to May 2005
Four years as Councillor representative on Stockton-on-Tees Child Placement Panel for Fostering and Adoption
Chair of School Admissions' Forum 2005/6
Cabinet member for Adult Services and Health 2005/7
Community Work
Trustee of Stockton Carers' Centre, part of the George Hardwick Foundation
Hon. President of Blind Voice UK (formerly Stockton Blind People's Voice)
School governor since 1978, currently Chair of Governors at Blakeston Community School a specialist Sports College
Governor of Redbrook School Roseworth
Chair of Norton Medical Centre Patients' Group
Chair of Stockton Home Safety Association
Trustee of Norton Educational Foundation
Member of 'Archers Addicts'
The National Trust - life member
Attendance at Glebe Residents Association and Crooksbarn Residents Association
Trustee of Teesside and District Society for the Blind
