Professor freda briggs biography
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Professor freda briggs biography
Freda Briggs
Australian child protection advocate
Freda BriggsAO (1 December – 6 April ) was an Australian academic, author and child protection advocate. In , she was named Senior Australian of the Year for her pioneering work in child protection.
Early life and education
Briggs was born Freda Akeroyd on 1 December in Huddersfield, England. She has one brother, nine years her junior. She attended Deighton Council School and Royds Hall School.[1][2]
Briggs worked briefly as an office clerk at Imperial Chemical Industries[1] before joining the London Metropolitan Police, working in child protection.[3] She said in that she joined the police after seeing an advertisement in a local paper seeking female police recruits, noting that it offered free accommodation and food.[4]
In , Briggs started studying by correspondence, eventually completing a teacher training course at Warwick University.[3][1] She wor