Shan Oakes

Shan Oakes is the Green Party candidate in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008 No other well-known political parties, except the Conservative Party and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, have put forward a candidate in this election.

She has lived in the East Riding of Yorkshire since 1975, where she taught English at schools in Hull and Beverley. This was followed by eight years championing child welfare, parent partnership and special needs for Humberside County Council education department, and then further work in the Community Safety Partnership in the City of York. She is one of the founders of Voice International, an organisation working to promote sustainability through education, and Chair of the Trustees of the Development Education Centre (Hull), a registered charity. She is married with 2 sons.

She is also currently Yorkshire and Humber Green candidate for the European Parliament election, 2009.

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