Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull

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Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull , OBE (born October 26, 1910 in Boksburg , South Africa , † March 13, 1996 in London ) was a British politician . Since 1976 she was a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords .

Life

Family and education

Faithfull was born in South Africa, the eldest child and only daughter of Sydney Leigh Faithfull and his wife Elizabeth Adie Algie. Her father was an army officer and a lieutenant with the Royal Engineers ; her mother was a nurse . Her father died in combat during World War I in 1916 when she was six years old. Her mother then returned to Great Britain with the two children. Her mother found work as a domestic servant. Their employment relationships changed frequently; the family lived without a permanent address for several years and moved several times. Faithfull started school at the age of seven. She attended Talbot Heath School, a boarding school , in Bournemouth . Faithfull found her school days difficult and unhappy.

Faithfull has been interested in social work since she was a teenager . She was deeply impressed by reading the novel North and South by the British writer Elizabeth Gaskell . She later studied at the Sorbonne ; She financed her studies in Paris through her work in a day-care center . In 1933 she joined the University of Birmingham with a degree in Social Sciences ( Social Sciences ) their studies.

Employment

Faithfull worked in childcare and social welfare in Birmingham after graduating . From 1932 to 1935 she worked for the welfare and aid organization Birmingham Settlement as a leader of children's and youth groups ( Club Leader ) and as a supervisor and deputy. Home manager ( sub-warden ). During this time she also worked as an individual carer ( caseworker ) and social worker. From 1935 to 1940 she was employed as an "Assistant Organizer of Child Care" in the Education Department of the London County Council . From 1940 to 1948 she was a regional welfare officer in the British Ministry of Health. During the Second World War , she was responsible for programs for evacuated children as part of the Kinderlandverschickung . During this time she gained a deep insight into the effects that separation from parents can have on children. From 1948 to 1958, she was Ministerial advisor ( Inspector ) in the Children's Department ( Children's Department ) in the British Home Office .

1958 Faithfull was a civil servant at Oxford City Council ; Her responsibilities included child and youth welfare in particular. She was one of the first so-called "Children's Officers" there. She carried out this activity until 1970. From 1970 to 1974 she was (until her retirement in 1974) at the Oxford City Council then as Head of Social Services ( Director of Social Services ) operates.

She was a trustee ( Trustee ) of numerous charitable and volunteer organizations, including the Caldecott Community and the Bessels Leigh Schools. She was up to her death in 1996, Vice-President ( Vice-President ) of the National Association of Voluntary Hostels (since 1978) and since 1989 Vice-President of Barnardo's , a British charity for children and adolescents. Faithfull supported the National Children's Bureau; she was there since 1984 President ( President ).

In 1993 she founded the Lucy Faithfull Foundation , an aid organization for sexually abused children and their families. The organization's fields of activity also include work with juvenile sex offenders. The aim of the organization is the prevention of sexual offenses in cooperation with former sex offenders.

In 2010 a biography about Faithfull was published; it is entitled Lucy Faithfull: Mother to Hundreds .

Membership in the House of Lords

On January 26, 1976, Faithfull was named a Life Peer and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was entitled Baroness Faithfull , of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire. In the House of Lords she sat for the Conservative Party . Faithfull had been suggested for a seat in the House of Lords by Margaret Thatcher ; after an initial refusal, she finally accepted the offer, which Thatcher found out about through a telephone call.

She gave her inaugural address on March 10, 1976. She spoke in a debate on tax policy . In Hansard , Faithfull's contributions to the House of Lords from 1976 to 1996 are documented. On March 11, 1996 she spoke for the last time in the debate on the Family Law Bill .

In the House of Lords, she campaigned in particular for the rights of children and young people. Her own childhood experiences had a decisive influence on her later commitment to the rights of children and young people. Based on her own experience, she believed that children needed parents or substitutes to take on the parenting role in order to be able to fully develop emotionally. She campaigned for a reform of juvenile criminal law ; it sought to mitigate the brutality of the prison system for juvenile offenders in the British judicial system. She was a proponent of the so-called "Children's Panels". It therefore supported the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, which provided for similar reforms. She managed to get the majority of the Crossbencher Peers, the Law Lords and the bishops in the House of Lords to vote for the bill.

In the House of Lords she was also instrumental in the passage of the Children Act 1989. Once again, she managed to convince the majority of Crossbencher peers to vote for the Childrens Act. She initiated and built the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children , a non-partisan parliamentary group ; since 1995 she has been its chairman.

She was a passionate opponent of the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill, introduced by British Home Secretary Michael Howard . This law proposed the establishment of secure and guarded "Training Centers" for juvenile offenders aged 12-14 on the premises of prisons Adults before. Faithfull said locking children up was ineffective. The high costs of introducing such training centers should be invested in awareness-raising work and early support for families.

Awards

Faithfull has received numerous awards and honors. In 1972 she was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the annual New Year's Honors list . In 1978 she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick . In 1995 she received an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University . In 1992, she was appointed Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College of Oxford University appointed.

Private

Faithfull was unmarried. She died of a stroke in St Thomas's Hospital in London . Her body was cremated at the Oxford Crematorium in Headington , a suburb of Oxford, in Oxfordshire , England.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Baroness Faithfull ; Obituary in The Independent, March 15, 1996
  2. ↑ a b c d e Lucy, Baroness Faithfull curriculum vitae (official website of the Center before Advancement of Women in Politics); Retrieved October 28, 2013
  3. ^ A b Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod: Dod's Parliamentary Companion . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd., 1996, p. 127.
  4. ↑ a b Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ TAXATION: DISINCENTIVE EFFECTS Text of the speech of March 10, 1976
  6. ↑ Lucy Faithfull (1910-1996) photo and overview of her work in the House of Lords (official website of the House of Lords); Retrieved October 28, 2013
  7. ↑ Judith Niechciał: Lucy Faithfull: Mother to Hundreds . 2010. ISBN 978-0-9532305-3-2
  8. ↑ London Gazette  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. December 31st 1971 edition@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  9. ↑ Honorary Graduates and Chancellor's Medallists Official website of the University of Warwick ; Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  10. ^ Lucy Faithfull entry at Find A Grave ; Retrieved October 28, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Faithfull, Lucy, Baroness Faithfull
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Boksburg , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1996
Place of death London