Millie Banerjee CBE has been announced as the new Chair of
Working Links, the public, private, voluntary sector organisation
which delivers services to help disadvantaged people into
sustainable employment.
Working Links is a leading prime provider to
the UK's Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice and
the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The
organisation delivers a wide range of contracts for welfare to work
programmes, National Offender Management Services and the Skills
Funding Agency's National Apprenticeship Service.
In its eleven year history, Working Links has
helped more than 220,000 people back into work.
Millie Banerjee takes up her new post this
month, following current Chair and founding director, Keith
Faulkner CBE. Millie brings extensive experience of the private and
public sectors to the post. She spent 25 years at BT in a variety
of roles during a time of significant change. Her previous
non-executive directorships include the Sector Skills Development
Agency, Channel 4 TV, Cabinet Office, Strategic Rail Authority,
Prisons Board, Peabody Trust and more recently, Ofcom. She has also
been the Chair of Postwatch, Carnegie UK Trust and Postcomm.
Currently she chairs the British Transport
Police Authority and is a non-executive director of the East London
PCT Cluster.
The new Chair will work with the organisation's shareholders and
executive team – led by Chief Executive, Breege Burke – to build on
Working Links’ strong social values and commercial successes to
achieve its ambitious growth and diversification plans in the UK,
Europe and Middle East. The UK model for performance-based
contracting has great potential for application across ever wider
areas of public, private and voluntary sectors to marry the needs
of citizens and employers in support of both social and economic
goals.
Commenting, Millie said: “I am very pleased to be joining Working
Links at such an important point in its development. I am looking
forward to working with the shareholders and the executive team and
to making my contribution in achieving ambitious plans for the
future.”