Rachel Childs
Rachel Childs
Professional Conduct Committee
Rachel is a qualified teacher and headteacher and has spent the last 25 years working with children between the ages of 4 and 16 in a variety of different settings. She is currently a non executive director for the Priors Court Foundation, a charity offering specialist education and care for children and young people with severe autism.
In addition to her career in education, Rachel has wide experience of regulation. She was a non executive director and Council member at the Advertising Standards Authority between 2011 and 2018, taking on the role of Senior Independent Director for her final three years. She undertakes a variety of regulatory roles for different statutory and self regulatory bodies including the Portman Group, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Education England and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. She also sits on the Advertising Advisory Committee, providing a consumer perspective to CAP and BCAP on the broadcast and non broadcast advertising codes.
Annual Register of Interest 2025
Membership of formal groups:
None
Business, professional or social relationships:
Rachel works for a number of different regulatory and charitable bodies (roles listed below).
Companies or associations which you or members of your family are officers of employees or in which you or they have beneficial interests:
- Panel Chair at the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Panel Chair at the Health and Care Professions Council
- Lay Member of the Investigating Committee at the General Osteopathic Council
- Chair of the Portman Group’s Independent Complaints Panel
- Member of the Advertising Advisory Committee (ASA) (This membership ends in January 2025)
- Conditional offer of appointment from the Department of Transport to act as their Independent
- Complaints Assessor, contracts not signed yet
Involvement in partnerships, joint ventures or consortia:
None
Professional relationships with individuals, organisations or businesses that might have relations with ARB:
None
Other:
None
Rachel Childs
Professional Conduct Committee
Rachel is a qualified teacher and headteacher and has spent the last 25 years working with children between the ages of 4 and 16 in a variety of different settings. She is currently a non executive director for the Priors Court Foundation, a charity offering specialist education and care for children and young people with severe autism.
In addition to her career in education, Rachel has wide experience of regulation. She was a non executive director and Council member at the Advertising Standards Authority between 2011 and 2018, taking on the role of Senior Independent Director for her final three years. She undertakes a variety of regulatory roles for different statutory and self regulatory bodies including the Portman Group, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Education England and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. She also sits on the Advertising Advisory Committee, providing a consumer perspective to CAP and BCAP on the broadcast and non broadcast advertising codes.
Annual Register of Interest 2025
Membership of formal groups:
None
Business, professional or social relationships:
Rachel works for a number of different regulatory and charitable bodies (roles listed below).
Companies or associations which you or members of your family are officers of employees or in which you or they have beneficial interests:
- Panel Chair at the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Panel Chair at the Health and Care Professions Council
- Lay Member of the Investigating Committee at the General Osteopathic Council
- Chair of the Portman Group’s Independent Complaints Panel
- Member of the Advertising Advisory Committee (ASA) (This membership ends in January 2025)
- Conditional offer of appointment from the Department of Transport to act as their Independent
- Complaints Assessor, contracts not signed yet
Involvement in partnerships, joint ventures or consortia:
None
Professional relationships with individuals, organisations or businesses that might have relations with ARB:
None
Other:
None