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New national chairman for Voice

9 June 2009

Rosemary Stokes, from Glenfield in Leicester, is the new National Chairman of Voice: the union for education professionals. She was elected as Vice Chairman in 2008 and took up office as Chairman at the independent union’s Annual General Meeting on 6 June 2009.

She has been a member of Voice’s Council since 2007.

Born in Somerset, Rosemary Stokes trained as a teacher at Portsmouth and worked as a biology teacher in secondary schools in Hampshire, Kent and Leicestershire until the birth of her daughter in 1975. Following full-time motherhood, she became a supply teacher, covering posts in all phases – "an invaluable experience".

In 1987 she joined the staff of Ash Field School, Leicester, for pupils with sensory and physical disabilities, where she was Assistant Headteacher until retirement in 2007.

Rosemary Stokes said: "I am delighted to become National Chairman. I look forward to representing the union and working to develop its services to members, and to meeting as many members as possible during my term of office.

"At a time of rapid and essential change, I believe Voice offers the service that education and early years professionals need to rise to the challenges they meet every day."




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