Education
Philippa Margaret Russell was educated at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School for Girls and Street Hilda"s College, Oxford.
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Philippa Russell
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She was chair of the United Kingdom government Standing Commission on Carers 2007-2015. She worked for the Council for Children"s Welfare 1968-1976 before being director of the Council for Disabled Children 1976–2003. She was disability adviser to the National Children"s Bureau 2003-2007 and to the Department for Education and Skills 2003-2005.
She was a commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission from 2002 until its abolition in 2007.
In 2007 she was appointed chair of the Standing Commission on Carers, "an independent advisory body providing expert advice to Ministers and the Carers Strategy Cross-Government Programme Board on progress in delivering the strategic vision of the national Carers Strategy.".
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Philippa Russell was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1998, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 and was made a Dame in the Queen"s Birthday of 2009 "for services to Disabled Children, Young People and Family Carers." She has honorary degrees from the University of Lincoln, the University of York and King Alfred"s College, Winchester. She is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire. Philippa Russell is also an honorary fellow of John Moores University in Liverpool, awarded on 15 July 2015.
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