The membership of the Board is designed to include a broad spectrum of scheme stakeholders. Members have been appointed either by appropriate representative bodies or by nomination and election. Please contact the Board secretariat in order to ask questions about the work of the Board or to put forward items for consideration.
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Joanne Livingstone Joanne worked as a pensions actuary for over 30 years before taking on a portfolio of different pension related roles. During her actuarial career her clients included public and private sector schemes and she also headed her firm's technical function, shaping the response to the ever changing pensions environment. She has also taught for the actuarial profession whilst pursuing her own studies in business administration. Recently she worked as a Guider for Pensionwise, working with members of the public to help the understand the options available to them. Other current roles are:
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Roger Hirst Roger Hirst was elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex in May 2016, before joint police and fire governance had been established. In 2017 Mr Hirst became the joint lead for police funding on behalf of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners nationally and was elected to the board of the APCC in 2018. Mr Hirst became the first Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner in October 2017 and continues to work nationally and locally to build stronger links between emergency services and help create more secure communities. Prior to his election as Commissioner, Mr. Hirst was Cabinet Member at Essex County Council with responsibility for Community Safety; Deputy Leader of Brentwood Borough Council; and has 33 years’ experience as a senior investment banker. Mr Hirst sits on both the LGA Fire Commission and Fire Services Management Committee (FSMC). |
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Cllr Roger Phillips Councillor Phillips is the chair of the Local Government Pension Scheme Advisory Board (E&W) and also chaired the LGA’s UK wide Local Government Pension Committee. He is a member and former leader (2003-2011) of Herefordshire Council and has been a lead LGA member on workforce and pay negotiations since 2007. He also chaired the LGPS2014 Project Board which brought together employer, employee and government representatives in order to reform the scheme. Cllr Phillips was appointed a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006. |
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Cllr Roger Price Councillor Price has been a Member of Hampshire Fire & Rescue Authority since 2001 and has been the Liberal Democratic spokesperson since 2005. Cllr Price is Chairman of the committee for 3S Fire, a trading company of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, a Member of the Hampshire Fire Service Pension Committee and has attended the Fire College weekend training courses. He has been a Member of the Local Government Association Fire Commission since 2006. |
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Dawn Docx Dawn Docx is the first Chief Fire Officer in Wales to be promoted from a non-typical background. She brings to that role strategic operational experience in three fire and rescue services from across the U.K. Dawn's fire service career started with Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service where she rose to become Head of Corporate Services. In 2006 she moved to North Wales Fire and Rescue Service as an Assistant Chief Officer, becoming the Deputy Chief Fire Officer in 2009. After steering the Service through the austerity years, she then moved to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) as Deputy County Fire Officer in 2017. This was at a difficult time for GMFRS, post the Arena bombing and under new governance arrangements led by the newly appointed Mayor, Andy Burnham. Known for her professional calmness and creativity, Dawn fronted up the publication of the Kerslake report and was in overall charge during GMFRS’s largest fire on Saddleworth Moor in 2018. After the pandemic, Dawn was delighted to return to North Wales Fire and Rescue Service as Chief Fire Officer in 2021. During the last four years, Dawn has focused on culture, on call availability and improving training. She is the NFCC lead on Pensions and an advisor to the National Joint Council (NJC). |
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Richard Welch Assistant Chief Fire Officer Richard Welch brings more than 30 years of operational and strategic leadership to his role within the UK fire and rescue sector. After a long and distinguished career with the London Fire Brigade, where he rose to Deputy Assistant Commissioner and led responses to major incidents such as Grenfell Tower and Parsons Green terrorist attack , he joined Avon Fire & Rescue Service in 2022 as a member of the Service Leadership Board. Richard’s experience spans organisational governance, risk management, workforce development, and major incident command. His leadership is grounded in a strong commitment to public service, transparent decision making, and the long term wellbeing of the workforce. He contributes a balanced, operationally informed perspective to pension related discussions, ensuring that firefighter welfare, sustainability, and responsible stewardship remain at the forefront of strategic considerations. |
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Tony Curry - FBU Tony joined Durham and Darlington FRS in 1994. He became a FBU Brigade official in 2010 when elected as Brigade Secretary, a role in which he served until 2016 when he was elected as Regional Secretary in the North East. In 2021 Tony was elected as FBU Executive Council member for the North East region and continues to serve in this role at the present time. |
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Philip Hayes - FRSA |
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Glyn Morgan - FOA Glyn sits on the Scheme Advisory Board as a scheme members’ representative from the Fire Officers’ Association (FOA). He served for over 30 years as a member of Nottinghamshire and Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Services before retiring in 2008. Thereafter, he was employed as the FOA’s Chief Executive Officer, until taking up an advisory role with the FOA in 2019. Glyn’s involvement with the management of fire pensions dates back to 1996 when he became the FOA representative on the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council’s Pensions Sub Committee. He subsequently continued to represent the FOA on the English Firefighters Pension Committee until its dissolution in 2015. He is also a member of the Fire Pensions Scheme Advisory Board for Scotland. |
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Mark Rowe - FBU Mark has been a Merseyside firefighter for 34 years and is still employed as such. He has been a Fire Brigades Union (FBU) official since 1988 with various different roles within both Merseyside and the wider North West region. In 2019 Mark took up the role of National Officer for the FBU. He works with civil servants from all parts of the UK in relation to pensions and has held the remit for pensions for the FBU since October 2020. Mark has been involved in many aspects of negotiations in relation to pensions since taking on the role and also holds other remits for the FBU, including the remit for Legal. |
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Andrew Fox-Hewitt - FBU |
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Adam Taylor - FBU |
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Craig Moran (First Actuarial) – actuarial adviser Craig is an Associate Partner and actuary at First Actuarial, with 13 years’ experience in the pensions industry. Craig specialises in providing clear, concise advice to trustees and employers. He is Scheme Actuary to seven defined benefit pension schemes and provides pension strategy advice to a range of employers in both the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Craig has advised the Scheme Advisory Board since 2017 on areas including valuation assumptions advice, potential implications of the cost-cap breach and the implications of age-discrimination in public service pension schemes. |
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Jane Marshall (Weightmans) - legal advisor Jane is a pensions specialist, and also an experienced employment lawyer, with over 22 years’ experience in the field of pensions. Jane has particular expertise in relation to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (PCSPS), the NHS Pension Scheme, the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme and the Police Pension Scheme. Jane is a regular speaker at national events on public sector pension matters, including the annual SAB Fire Conference and workshops on ill health retirement and pensionable pay. Jane also provides training to many public sector bodies on TUPE and pensions. |
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Helen Scargill - technical advisor Helen has been involved in pension’s administration since her appointment to West Yorkshire Pension Fund in November 1984 as a Pensions Officer and has worked in a number of roles in the organisation since joining. With over 30 years’ experience she has a thorough knowledge of all aspects of the Fire-fighters’ Pension Schemes. Helen has been a member of a number of working groups involved with the Fire-fighters’ Pension Schemes, these have included the 2006 regulations and the subsequent options exercise and more recently the working party dealing with the RDS modified pension scheme. She is currently the chair of the Fire-fighter Pensions Technical Community and the chair of the North East Region Fire Officers Group. |
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