Early Life
She attended Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls (now Whalley Range High School) on Wilbraham Road in Whalley Range, Manchester, then the Footscray High School in Melbourne, Australia. She worked as welfare worker for disabled people for the CHS Manchester from 1963–70. From 1970–2, she was an education welfare officer for the Manchester Education Committee. From 1978–80, she was Registrar of Marriages for Bury Registration District. From 1989–96, she was a project worker for Calderdale Well Woman Centre.
Before her election to parliament, McCafferty was a member of Hebden Royd Town Council 1991–95. She was also a councillor on Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council 1991–7, where she was chair of the Adoption Panel 1992–6. She served as member of the West Yorkshire Police Authority 1994–7.
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