Moira Gibb
{{Short description|British public servant and social worker (born 1950)}}
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| name = Moira Gibb
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| birth_name = Moira Margaret Bogan
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950|04}}
| birth_place = Scotland, United Kingdom
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| children = 1
| occupation = {{ubl|Public servant|Social worker}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Glasgow|University of Edinburgh|Newcastle University}}
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Dame Moira Margaret Gibb {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE}} ({{nee|Bogan}}; born April 1950) is a British public servant and social work adviser. After qualifying as a social worker, she worked for the London boroughs of Ealing, Kensington and Chelsea, and Camden, where she served as the chief executive of Camden London Borough Council from 2003 to 2011. Gibb served as a Civil Service commissioner from 2012 to 2016, and chaired the boards of City Lit and Skills for Care until 2022. She led a serious case review into safeguarding at Southbank International School, and into the Church of England's response to the case of Peter Ball.
Early life and education
Moira Margaret Bogan was born in April 1950{{cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/k9maq2Yq8i6BLnvzyYTpAbNjoAI/appointments|title=Moira Margaret Gibb|website=Companies House|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|access-date=13 March 2023}} in Scotland{{cite web|url=https://www.lgcplus.com/archive/features-its-tough-at-the-top-01-07-2004/|title=Features – It's tough at the top|last=Simmons-Lewis|first=Suzanne|website=Local Government Chronicle|date=1 July 2004|access-date=13 March 2023}} to James Bogan and Catherine Bogan ({{nee|McTaggart}}).{{Who's Who|title=Gibb, Dame Moira|id=U4000526|year=2022|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000526}} She studied engineering for two years at the University of Glasgow{{cite web|last=Hetherington|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter Hetherington|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/may/21/guardiansocietysupplement9|title=Profile: Moira Gibb|work=The Guardian|date=21 May 2003|access-date=28 February 2017}} before changing course and studying English, French and psychology, graduating with an undergraduate Master of Arts degree. She later studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work, and gained a Post Qualification Certificate in Child Care at Newcastle University.
Career
On graduation, Gibb became a teacher at a secondary modern school in Newham, East London. She then qualified as a social worker, working in the neighbourhood of Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne. She rose through the profession to become deputy director of social services in Kensington and Chelsea in 1988, and then became director in 1990. In 2003, Gibb was appointed the chief executive of Camden London Borough Council, in which post she remained until 2011.
=Other work=
Gibb served as a non-executive director of the boards of NHS England and the UK Statistics Authority, and was the chair of Skills for Care from 2014 to 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About-us/Our-board-leadership-team-and-fellows/Our-board-leadership-team-and-fellows.aspx|title=Our board, leadership team and fellows|publisher=Skills for Care|access-date=28 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209042036/https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About-us/Our-board-leadership-team-and-fellows/Our-board-leadership-team-and-fellows.aspx|archive-date=9 February 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/whos-who/|title=NHS England " NHS England Board|work=.uk|publisher=NHS England|access-date=28 February 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/meet-the-board/dame-moira-gibb-dbe/|title=Dame Moira Gibb DBE|publisher=UK Statistics Authority|access-date=4 March 2017}}
Gibb was a member of the council of Reading University from 2013 to 2016, and served as a Civil Service commissioner from 2012 to 2016 and a director of the London Marathon from 2005 to 2011. She was also the chair of governors of the adult-education college City Lit from 2013 to 2022.{{cite web|url=http://www.citylit.ac.uk/governors|title=Governors|publisher=City Lit|access-date=28 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809104519/https://www.citylit.ac.uk/governors|archive-date=9 August 2022}}
=Reviews=
From 2014, Gibb chaired a serious case review into safeguarding at Southbank International School following the William Vahey case. The report was delivered in 2016, and concluded that "positive steps have already been taken" but that there was "still much to be done".{{cite news|last=Booth|first=Robert|title=Safeguarding at London school where teacher abused boys 'still not adequate'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/20/london-southbank-school-william-vahey-abuse-safeguarding-not-adequate|access-date=22 June 2017|work=The Guardian|date=20 January 2016}}
Gibb chaired the Church of England independent review (announced in February 2016) into the case of Peter Ball, a former bishop of Gloucester who was imprisoned in 2015 for sexual abuse.{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2016/02/dame-moira-gibb-announced-as-chair-of-independent-review-into-peter-ball-case.aspx|title=Dame Moira Gibb announced as Chair of independent review into Peter Ball case|publisher=Church of England|date=24 February 2016|access-date=28 February 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311163636/https://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2016/02/dame-moira-gibb-announced-as-chair-of-independent-review-into-peter-ball-case.aspx|archive-date=11 March 2016}} Gibb's report was published in June 2017 and concluded: "Ball's priority was to protect and promote himself and he maligned the abused. The Church colluded with that rather than seeking to help those he had harmed, or assuring itself of the safety of others."{{cite web|title=The Independent Peter Ball Review|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/media/3999908/report-of-the-peter-ball-review-210617.pdf|website=Church of England|access-date=22 June 2017|date=June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622182257/https://www.churchofengland.org/media/3999908/report-of-the-peter-ball-review-210617.pdf|archive-date=22 June 2017}} The report resulted in George Carey being asked to step down as an honorary assistant bishop by Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury.{{cite news|last=Sherwood|first=Harriet|title=Justin Welby asks George Carey to quit over church abuse report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/22/church-of-england-colluded-with-bishop-peter-ball-who-abused-boys-says-justin-welby|access-date=22 June 2017|work=The Guardian|date=22 June 2017}}
Personal life
In 1970, Gibb married the British diplomat Brian Graham Gibb,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyvwAAAAMAAJ&dq=Moira%20Margaret%20Bogan&pg=PA234|title=The Diplomatic Service List 1971|year=1971|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|page=234|via=Google Books}} and later married Henry Blythe in 1990. She has one son.
Honours
Gibb was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to the social services.{{London Gazette|issue=56430|date=31 December 2001|page=8|supp=y}}{{cite news|last=Curphey|first=Marianne|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/dec/31/2|title=Former ADSS chief heads honours list for public sector|date=31 December 2001|work=The Guardian|access-date=13 March 2023}} In the 2012 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to local government and social work.{{London Gazette|issue=60009|date=31 December 2011|page=6|supp=y}}{{cite web|last=Richardson|first=Hannah|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16364413|title=Inner city head teacher made a dame by Queen|publisher=BBC|date=31 December 2011|access-date=28 February 2017}} Gibb was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of East Anglia in 2012 and Kingston University in 2013.
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