Purpose
The purpose of each Portfolio Advisory Board is to provide advice to the Mayor and Cabinet on the exercise of their functions. Find out more about how our Advisory Boards work.
Areas of work
This board supports our work to reduce child poverty, grow skills and increase local people’s access to opportunity, including public service reform.
- Child Poverty Reduction
- Skills
- Public Service Reform
- Inclusion, Health, Prevention
- Access to cultural and creative experiences
- Employment, employability, and New Deal
- Deliver on High Streets Commission
Membership
| Councillor Christopher Eynon (Chair) | Leader, Sunderland City Council |
| Katy Scott | Business Advisory Council (representing SMEs) |
| Shirley Spoors | Azko Nobel (representing large businesses) |
| Rhiannon Bearne | North East Chamber of Commerce |
| Martin Brookes | VSCE representative |
| Paul Butler | Automotive Alliance |
| David Inness | Department for Work and Pension |
| Paul Atkinson | Jarrow School |
| Rebecca Jackson | Cragside Primary School |
| Audrey Kingham | LA7 Director of Children's Services Group |
| Toni Rhodes | EPNE & NE Colleges Technical Education |
| Claire Riley | Integrated Care Board |
| Tom Hall | Community Health and Prevention |
| Beth Farhat | Child Poverty Commission |
| Graham Thrower | Sunderland University Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion |
| Jenny Allinson | Social housing representative |
| Osian Jones | London Borough of Camden |
| Nick Kimber | PSR Cabinet Office |
| Vanessa Jardine | Northumbria Police Chief Constable |
| Lesley Spuhler | Sunderland Foundation of Light |
| Sam Blake | Newcastle Eagles |
| Keith Merrin | North East Museums |
| Dan Monnery | Northumbria University & Universities North East |