Molly Meacher, Baroness Meacher

Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher, (born 15 May 1940), known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard, is a British social worker.

Meacher was educated at the Berkhamsted School for Girls, the York University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1970, and the University of London, where she received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 1980.

She was a social worker in North London and worked for the Mental Health Foundation. From 1991 to 1994 Meacher was chief adviser to the Russian Government on employment. Following she became Deputy Chair Police Complaints Authority, a post she held until 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, she was chair of Security Industry Authority, and since 2004, she is chair of the East London and City Mental Health Trust. On 2 May 2006, she was made a life peer as Baroness Meacher, of Spitalfields in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and sits as a crossbencher.