Alison Garnham

Alison Garnham has been chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group since 2010.  Previously she was CEO of Daycare Trust and director of policy, research and information at One Parent Families (now Gingerbread).

For many years she was a welfare rights adviser, has co-authored publications about the Child Support Act and written about lone parenthood and child poverty.

She has been senior lecturer in social policy at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) and a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee.