Frances Done
{{Short description|British public administrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office5 = Chair of the Youth Justice Board
| term_start5 = February 2008{{cite web|title=Across the divide|work=The Guardian |date=15 July 2008 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jul/16/youthjustice| access-date=30 March 2020 |last1=Travis |first1=Alan }}
| term_end5 = March 2014
| appointed5 = Jack Straw
| predecessor5 = Graham Robb (Interim)
| successor5 = Lord McNally
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|05|6}}
|birth_place = Bristol, England
|alma_mater = University of Manchester
}}
Frances Winifred Done, CBE, FCA (née Bishop; born 6 May 1950) is a British public administrator, accountant and former local politician.
Early life
She was born in Bristol[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/manchesters-powerhouse-draws-on-the-sydney-success-story-for-a-new-legacy-9172561.html "Manchester's powerhouse draws on the Sydney success story for a new legacy"], The Independent, 8 September 2001. Retrieved 16 November 2017. on 6 May 1950, one of the four daughters of the Labour politician Edward Stanley Bishop, Baron Bishopston, PC, JP (1920–1984), and his wife, Winifred Mary, née Bryant, JP.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U2000270 "Done, Frances Winifred"], Who's Who 2017 (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, November 2016). Retrieved 16 November 2017[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U162060 "Bishopston"], Who Was Who (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, April 2014). Retrieved 16 November 2017.
Career
Done was educated at the University of Manchester, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in economics in 1971; she then began training as an accountant at KPMG. In 1976, she was appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. In 1988, she returned to KPMG as a senior manager in their public sector department, but in 1991 became Treasurer of the Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, serving until 1998 when she became Chief Executive. In 2000, she became Chief Executive of Manchester 2002, which was responsible for organising that city's Commonwealth Games. When that role expired in 2003, she became managing director for Local Government, Housing and Criminal Justice at the Audit Commission (2003–06), which made her ultimately responsible for the commission's inspections of local government organisations. She then spent a year as Interim Director-General of the Royal British Legion for the year 2006–07.[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/birmingham-improvement-panel-named "Birmingham improvement panel named (press release)"], Department for Communities and Local Government, 22 January 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2017. She was then Chairman of the Youth Justice Board from 2008 to 2014, and has served as a Trustee of the Canal and River Trust (formerly the Waterways Trust) since 2003. In 2015, the Department for Communities and Local Government appointed her vice-chairman of the Birmingham Improvement Panel.
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Fred Silvester
|votes = 18,329
|percentage = 39.2
|change = −8.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Frances Done
|votes = 15,956
|percentage = 34.2
|change = −4.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Social Democratic Party (UK)
|candidate = Bernard L. Lever
|votes = 12,231
|percentage = 26.2
|change = New
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Michael Gibson
|votes = 184
|percentage = 0.4
|change = 0.0
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{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,373
|percentage = 5.0
|change = -3.4
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{{Election box turnout
|votes = 46,700
|percentage = 72.3
|change = -2.4
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{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −3.4
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= Honours =
In the 2003 New Year Honours, Done was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the XVII Commonwealth Games".Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 2002 (no. 56797), p. 7.
Personal life
In 1981, she married the political broadcaster Jim Hancock and has two sons.Alan Travis,
[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jul/16/youthjustice "Interview: Frances Done, chair of Youth Justice Board"], The Guardian, 16 July 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
References
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Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Daughters of life peers