Lucy Faithfull: Mother to Hundreds

A life-long and passionate campaigner for children, Baroness Lucy Faithfull (1910-1996) was one of the most eminent social workers of the twentieth century. She worked with evacuees in the Second World war, then headed to excellent Children's Department in Oxford. She founded the charity 'The Lucy Fathfull Fundation' which pioneers therapeutic work with sex offenders. Mrs Thatcher made her a Tory life peer, but she opposed, and persuaded others to oppose, so many of the measures which the Party supported in relation to the welfare of children, that the Tory whips gave her the nickname of 'Lady Faithless'.