User:Cllr Carla Thomas

Councillor Carla Maria Thomas was elected in St Oswald ward Bootle (Sefton) in May 2016.

Committee appointments:-

Planning Visiting Panel; Planning Committee; Safer Sefton Communities Partnership Committee

Carla is a Substitute Committee Member for:

Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Children's Services and Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services.

Carla was the Lead/ Chair of the Area Committee Working Group for the Overview and Scrutiny committee for Regulatory, Compliance and Corporate Services.

Carla was appointed to the Employment Procurement Committee

Outside Body Appointments

Councillor Carla Thomas was unanimously selected as the Chair of Merseyside Police and Crime Panel in 2018.

Carla was appointed as Deputy Portfolio Holder for Policy and Resources, Strategy and Delivery to Metro Mayor Steve Rotheam on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority in May 2018

Carla was appointed as an Executive Member of the National Association of Police and Crime Panels.

Carla is a Deputy Senior Governor at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre having been publicly elected in 2015.

Carla was a Local Authority appointed Governor at St Oswald CE Primary School in Netherton.

Personal Life:

When Carla was 6 weeks old, Alder Hey Children's hospital gave her parents a very unfavourable prognosis. Carla had a Neuroblastoma which was partially resected, treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy for about two years. Her oncologist, Dr John Martin called her a miracle child as the Neuroblastoma stopped growing at Stage 4. Due to the tumour and it's treatments Carla is unfortunately left with long term disability.

Education:

Carla passed her GCSEs at Formby High School and did her A Levels at Formby High and Range High Schools.

Carla graduated with an LL.B Law degree with honours in Law (with French law and language modules) from Lancashire Law School in University of Central Lancashire.

Carla passed her Legal Practice course at Lancashire law school in University of Central Lancashire gaining a Law School Prize for Meritorious Performance- unanimously approved by all academic tutors.

In 2010, Carla graduated from University of Liverpool, achieving a LL.M Masters degree in Law, Medicine and Healthcare.

Family

Carla was born in Liverpool in 1981. Her parents are Carol and Michael Thomas who married in 1976. Carla has one sister, Julie. Julie was severely injured in the (at the Ariana Grande M.E.N Arena concert) Manchester Bombing on 22nd May 2017. The Thomas family lived in Woolton but they moved to Formby in June 1984.

Carla's Great Uncle, Leonard Thomas was the manager of the Cameo Cinema in Wavertree. On Saturday night of 19th March 1949, Leonard Thomas and his assistant, Bernard Catterall were both murdered. This case became one of Liverpool's most notorious crimes. The crime remains unsolved.

Hope Over Fear Fundraising Event

On 20th January 2018, Carla organised and hosted a Fundraising event in The Shankly Hotel Liverpool (Signature Living) to raise money for the Manchester Emergency Fund after the devastating Bombing which took place in May 2017. £9,250 was raised for the charity. Carla presented the cheque to Manchester Metro Mayor Andy Burnham with Liverpool's Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and London Mayor Sadiq Khan present.