Education
University of Leeds; University of Wales.
University of Leeds; University of Wales.
She later joined the National Union of Public Employees. Since then she has held a wide range of appointments and offices in the public sector and the field of training and education. The youngest of three sisters from a close and happy though often poor working-class Jewish family and a graduate in English of the University of Wales, Lampeter, Slipman went on to take a postgraduate course at the University of Leeds, from where she was elected NUS Grad. Medical School vice president in 1974 Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London.
Supported by David Owen, Slipman stood for the Social Democratic Party in the working class constituencies of Basildon in 1983 and Hayes & Harlington in 1987, coming third on both occasions.
Slipman also worked at the National Council for One Parent Families who called for abolishing the age of consent completely. From 1986-1995 she was Director of the National Council for One Parent Families which she rallied in support of the Conservative Government"s Child Support Agency though it led to harsh cuts in single parent benefit payments.
Slipman went on to run the London Training and Enterprise Council Council (the co-ordinating organisation for the Training and Enterprise Councils in London). In 1994 Slipman received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Oxford Brookes University.
In 1998, Slipman became Director of Environmental and Social Responsibility for the National Lottery operators, The Camelot Group, where she stayed until 2003.
She then moved to become Chairman of the United Kingdom"s Financial Ombudsman Service. In 2005 she became a director of the Foundation Trust Network, working with foundation hospitals within the National Health Service.
Sue Slipman stated at the 1987 Social Democratic Party conference that "The Social Democratic Party should retain the classless opportunities provided by Thatcherism" and that "The Social Democratic Party should civilise the Thatcherite project" and that "The Social Democratic Party should be a friendly critic of Thatcherism".
A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, she was elected President of the NUS Grad. Medical School on the Broad Left ticket. In the late 1970s Slipman served as an executive member of the National Council for Civil Liberties. Also a strong voice in women"s issues, from 1992 she was a member of the Working Group on Women"s Issues to the Secretary of State for Employment.