President
NCB's President
Baroness Shireen Ritchie became president of NCB on 25
November 2010. The president promotes NCB to the external world,
championing our causes and speaking on our behalf at
events.
Baroness Ritchie was first elected as a Kensington and Chelsea
Councillor in 1998. Since then she has been consistently
involved in services for children and families, first as Executive
Member for Adult and Children's Social Care and, following the
Children act 2004, as the statutory Lead Member for Children's
Services. She holds the portfolio of Cabinet Member for
Family and Children's Services.
She chairs the Local Government Association's Children and Young
People Board, is a member of the Social Work Reform Board, sits on
the Board of Cafcass and is a member of the Family Justice
Review. She is Vice President of the national charity UK
Youth. She also heads up the Pan London Back on Track
Advisory Group looking at ways to improve the quality of Pupil
Referral Units and alternative provision in London. In June
2010 she was appointed to the House of Lords.
NCB's former president, Baroness Estelle Morris, stood down in
November 2010 after five years in the role. The charity's first
president was Baroness Lucy Faithfull OBE, who died in March
1996.