Baroness Jane Campbell is an independent health and social care policy adviser. She is Chair of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) Independent Living Review Expert Panel, and has been a Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) since its inception in 2000. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Social Work (BJSW). Jane recently stepped down as Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), an independent, government-funded organisation dedicated to improving the quality of Social Care across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  She co-founded and for a time directed the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL).  As Chairperson of the British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) from 1991-95 and later its NCIL Co-Director she saw this organisation through some of its most pioneering work in the fields of independent living, civil rights, peer counselling and equal opportunities. 

Baroness Jane Campbell has a long history of parliamentary lobbying for disabled people’s civil and human rights and has been particularly active in creating structures which encourage disabled people from all sectors of society to take control of their lives and influence political and social change.  This work became the basis for a book Disability Politics (Routledge 1996), co-authored with Professor Michael Oliver.  Jane has been recognised for her work twice in the Queen’s birthday honours (in 2000 and again in 2006) and is the recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees.