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Family Procedure Rules Committee: Reappointment of Lay Advice Member

Ministers have approved the reappointment of Bill Turner as a Lay Advice Member of the Family Procedure Rules Committee for 3 years from 4 November 2022.

Ministers have approved the reappointment of Bill Turner as a Lay Advice Member of the Family Procedure Rules Committee from 4 November 2022 to 3 November 2025.

Biography

Bill Turner is a qualified social worker with extensive experience of working in children’s social care and has worked in a variety of frontline and leadership roles across London boroughs. He has extensive experience of complex safeguarding interventions and of public law proceedings in the Family Court.

He has not declared any political activity.

Appointments to the FPRC are made under Section 77(2) of the Courts Act 2003 which provides that the FPRC should have one person with experience in, and knowledge of, the lay advice sector.

The appointment is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

Published 31 August 2022