Ros Kayes selected as P.P.C. for South Dorset Constituency

4.11.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Tue 2nd Sep 2008

Ros Kayes at the selection meeting that took place in August

A Bridport councillor has recently been selected as the P.P.C for South Dorset

Brought up in the West Midlands, Ros graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1985. She later completed an MA, a PGCE and an Advanced Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

She worked for the BBC and GLC conducting social surveys, as well as in the fields of education and health, becoming Deputy Head of a Sixth Form unit in Dorking.

She left to have children and work as Counsellor in General Practice in a large surgery in Yeovil. In 2000 she returned to education, as Head of Citizenship at Yeovil College, while remaining a psychotherapist in private practice and undertaking a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the University of Plymouth.

Involved in teaching Politics and campaigning since university, Ros chaired the West Dorset LETS group and was elected to Bridport Town Council in 2006. She is Chair of Plans and Vice Chair of the Environment Committee. She was elected to West Dorset District Council in 2007 where she became Deputy Leader of the 16 strong Lib Dem group after 6 months.

Current campaigns include working to establish a Skills and Learning Centre in West Dorset, working to establish an affordable housing exception site of 50 homes in Bridport and spearheading plans for a creative arts and food festival in Bridport to coincide with the 2012 Sailing Olympics.

She has two children and lives in the village of Long Bredy near Dorchester.

Ros has already been very active at both ends of the constituency. She has recently been supporting the Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck Lib Dems in the fight to retain the Swanage Household recycling Centre.