Jill Elizabeth Pitkeathley, Baroness Pitkeathley, (; born on

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, 4 January 1940) is a

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member of the

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. Her first job was working for

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as a trainee child care officer in 1961. She was paid £660 a year. She worked in the

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, as chief executive of

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National Association (now renamed Carers UK) for which she was appointed an

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in the

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. Mrs Pitkeathley was created a

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as Baroness Pitkeathley, of Caversham in the

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, on 6 October 1997. Since 1998 she has been chair of one of the lottery distributors, the

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. In 2004, she was appointed chair of the

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(CAFCASS). Lady Pitkeathley also chaired the Office for Civil Society Advisory Body until its abolition in March 2011. Pitkeathley was a founding member of

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, the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations. She is a trustee of

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