Brief biography - Shelia Childerhouse (Chair)

Qualifications

• Cert.Ed, Southampton
• MA in Education, University of East Anglia

Sheila has over 20 years experience in the NHS, beginning in 1984, as a member of the former Norfolk Family Practitioners Committee. She was a non-executive director of North West Anglia Health Authority until 1999 and briefly with King’s Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals Trust before she became Chair of the West Norfolk PCT in 2000. In 2005 Sheila moved across to become Chair of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust in King's Lynn and in October 2006 became Chair of NHS Norfolk.

Sheila has over twenty years experience in education and was also a District Councillor for over 24 years.

She is a Board member and Deputy Chair of the East of England Development Agency, Chair of EEDA's migrant workers' steering group, champion for the Economic Participation core product and a member of the EEDA Social Inclusion Panel and the Community and Voluntary Forum Eastern Region (COVER).

Sheila has chaired several regeneration organisations, including Keystone Development Trust. She has a wide breadth of experience within the voluntary and community sector, particularly in urban and rural regeneration, and sits on the board of governors at a local primary school.

Sheila is also a partner in a family farming business.