Meet Ann Cains
President’s Address – Councillor Ann Cains
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Ann has represented the Glebe Ward on Stockton-on-Tees Borough since 1995 living in the same house in the ward in Norton for 45 years with her husband Dick who has been her fellow councillor since 1999. Ann has three grown up sons and a grandson.
She has always taken a keen interest and an active role in community and education issues. She has been a school governor since 1978 in a number of Norton schools and Stockton Sixth Form College. As well as chairing some governing bodies and training governors Ann has also been a lay inspector for the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted).
She was appointed for a few years as a non-Executive Director of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, only stepping down from this post after becoming Chairman of the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the Council. Ann also serves on the Education Select Committee and the Child Placement Panel. Even during her mayoral year in 2003 -04, when she attended around 300 functions, Ann managed to maintain her interest in social care issues, particularly around the needs of children in public care and adults with disabilities like the blind and partially sighted.
Ann has been interested and supportive of BlindVoice UK for a number of years and she was there at the very fist meeting in a pub in Stockton in 1997.
We are delighted that even though Ann has such a busy life she has agreed to become our first President and has been duly elected for a three-year period, a time when she will support our events, provide advice and guidance.
Ann,
Councillor Ann Cains,
President