Nancy Platts

Nancy Platts is a British campaigner, politician and trade unionist. She is currently Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council for the Labour Party. She was Labour's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for in 2015 and for in 2010.
Early life and career
Nancy Platts was born in London and left school at 18 working in local shops. In 1986 she joined the London Fire Brigade where she worked in a number of positions for 12 years. She went to work at the Railway Union TSSA and then went on to work at the Greater London Authority.
She has a CAM diploma and CIM diploma from the London College of Printing
Career
Nancy Platts worked at the Daycare Trust, where she was head of campaigns and then acting director and campaigned successfully for a SureStart children's centre in every community.
At Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Asthma UK and Diabetes UK she worked for the patients and families who rely on the NHS. to ensure the got the service they needed.
She was a trustee of End Child Poverty and joined the executive team of the Fawcett Society. She has been a Director of Maternity Alliance, lobbying ministers for improved parental leave and better maternity services for all, especially disadvantaged groups, and acted as campaigns and communications consultant to various charities including the National Childbirth Trust and Child Poverty Action Group.
She has stood ran in 2010 in the where she had moved three years previously.
She is the director and founder of a small business which work in public relations and social media. where she has helped advise a number of charities and organisations in getting their message out.

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