On the Move
Bernard Chalk has taken up the post of director of finance and performance management at Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust. He was previously director of finance at Craven, Harrogate & Rural District Primary Care Trust.
Rodney How is the new director of finance and information at Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust. He leaves Avon & Western Wiltshire Health Care NHS Trust, where he had worked as a senior management accountant.
Philip Onions has retired from Essex Police, where he held responsibility for finance, administration, personnel and training at chief officer level since 1997. His successor in the finance and administration role is Rick Tazzini, who was previously assistant director of finance with the Essex Strategic Health Authority.
Stephen Joyce has joined Mid Suffolk District Council as its head of financial management. He was formerly head of finance at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
Neil Thornton has been appointed as a manager in KPMG's Public Sector Advisory Services team in Leeds. He has joined from RSM Robson Rhodes.
Mike Hussey has left Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council's land and property department, where he was assistant director, to join NPS North West as managing director. The company is a subsidiary of NPS Property Consultants, which is owned by Norfolk County Council.
Martin Henry has been appointed head of finance at South Northants Council. He was previously a group accountant at Northamptonshire County Council.
Sarah Dennis has taken up the post of head of internal audit for Ordnance Survey. Her previous position was as chief internal auditor with Arun District Council, where she worked for 15 years.
Gavin Mason has been appointed head of financial services at the University of Sheffield. He was formerly senior financial accountant (income).
Dan Short has joined Hedra as a managing consultant focusing on the modernising agenda for public services. He moves from IPF, where he was a senior consultant.
Lynn Tracy Stephenson has been promoted to director of finance at Huntingdonshire Regional College. She was formerly a management accountant.
Helen Usher is the new head of finance and corporate services in the Welsh European Funding Office. For the past three and a half years she had headed the private sector unit in the office. She qualified for CIPFA with the National Audit Office before joining the Welsh Office in 1992. She is a former member of the Central Government Panel.
Helen Simpson is leaving Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where she has been its deputy director of finance, to join Newcastle under Lyme Primary Care Trust as director of finance and commissioning.
Alistair Greer has joined Essex Police as a finance manager. He was previously principal accountant at Mid Suffolk District Council.
Richard King, having retired as Kent County Council's chief internal auditor at the end of last year, is now running his own consultancy and also working part-time as an associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Joanne Case, formerly a project accountant at Learning and Business Link Company, has become director of finance at Berkshire College of Agriculture.
Robert Hughes has joined Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor as director of finance and resources. Previously, he worked as finance manager at Snowdonia National Park Authority.
Allan Coffey is the new chief executive at Monmouthshire Local Health Board. He leaves Powys Health Care NHS Trust, where he was the finance director.
Lynton Green has joined Greater Manchester Police as their finance director. He was previously head of education finance at Manchester City Council.
Alan Clifford, who has been head of finance at Plymouth City Council since 1993, retired at the end of May.
Alastair Martin has retired as vice-principal at James Watt College of Further and Higher Education. He has worked in the public sector for 41 years, including spells at Ayr County Council and Strathclyde Regional Council.
Mike Collier has retired from his position as chief executive of ONENorthEast. He has now been appointed a non-executive director of North and East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Strategic Health Authority.
Christina Earls is returning to local government after six years with the Civil Service. After being made redundant from Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in 1998, she joined the Benefits Agency and, then in 2000, the Ministry of Defence. She leaves as assistant director of finance to join Hart District Council to become S151 Officer as head of financial services. She is reluctantly giving up membership of the CIPFA Central Government Working Party; she has also been honorary secretary of the South Wales and West of England Region. However, she looks forward to continuing her voluntary links and activities with CIPFA.
Timothy Roger Eastaff, a retired member aged 58, has died. He was formerly chief executive of Aragon Housing Association. He also worked as a regional finance officer with Mid Beds District Council and as a senior accountant with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation.
Obituary
Ray Lacey, who was CIPFA's President in 1978/79, died in March at the age of 77.
He trained for the then Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants with the old Glamorgan County Council and worked for Rhymney and Ebbw Vale District Councils before joining Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council as its treasurer.
It was there that he sprang to national notice when he refused to sign a cheque for school milk, which had been banned by the then Conservative government.
At reorganisation in 1974, Ray became deputy county treasurer of Mid Glamorgan, and treasurer in 1976. He displayed a high degree of integrity and professionalism in all that he did.
His experience with rating authorities made him invaluable to the Society of County Treasurers and the Association of County Councils as adviser on rating matters. He also served a four-year term as adviser to the Welsh Counties Committee and lead rate support grant negotiator when Wales first had its own grant system in 1980.
Ray had a vast array of outside interests, with his family the first among them.
He was an enthusiast for rugby (Cardiff and Wales) and cricket (Glamorgan), a keen choral singer with a number of choirs (including the Welsh National Opera), a meticulous gardener and an energetic worker for his church.
He is survived by his wife Beryl, herself a staunch supporter of Institute events, and their three sons.
Richard Tettenborn
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