Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton

Shireen Olive Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton (born 1949) is a Councillor for the Brompton Ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and advocate for women in the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. She is a Conservative Working Peer for the House of Lords.[1]

Shireen Ritchie has been a Kensington and Chelsea Councillor since 1998 and represents the Brompton ward on the Council. In 2008, she provided testimony as part of the Home Affairs Committee hearings on Trade in Human Beings.[2] She was involved in efforts of the Conservative Party to raise awareness amongst constituents about the importance of the issue of diversity to the party,[3] including the party's women2win efforts in 2005,[4] and Priority List (A-List) candidates, for which she received scorn from other Conservative party members.[5] She has held a seat as the Chair of the party's Candidates Committee as was named as a 'Champion' for the Conservative Woman's Organization.[6]

While she was chair of LGA's Family and Children’s Services in 2010, the department underwent an effort to reduce paperwork to "ease the pressure on social workers and increase the quality of care offered to children."[7]

She is a member of the Family Justice Review Panel.

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She had a son, Oliver, by her first marriage.[8] Her second marriage was to John Vivian Ritchie, becoming stepmother to his children Tabitha Ritchie and Guy Ritchie.[9][10]

Reference

  1. ^ "Dissolution honours: the full list of new peers". The Telegraph. 2010-05-29. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/honours-list/7779671/Dissolution-honours-the-full-list-of-new-peers.html. Retrieved 2010-07-02. "Shireen Ritchie, councillor in Kensington & Chelsea and step-mother of Guy Ritchie, the film director." 
  2. ^ The Trade in Human Beings: Oral and written evidence. Great Britain: Parliament : House of Commons : Home Affairs Committee. 2009. p. Ev 82. ISBN 978-0215530219. http://books.google.com/books?id=54varRsWk9MC&pg=PA82&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Shireen%20Ritchie%22%20-inpublisher%3Aicon&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  3. ^ Speaker's Conference (on Parliamentary Representation): session 2009-10, Volume III. Great Britain: Parliament : House of Commons. 2010. p. Ev 141. ISBN 978-0215543899. http://books.google.com/books?id=SKU5RfWcVMwC&pg=PA141&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Shireen%20Ritchie%22%20-inpublisher%3Aicon&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  4. ^ Childs, Sarah (2007). Women and British party politics: descriptive, substantive and symbolic. London: Routledge. p. 52. ISBN 978-0415366823. http://books.google.com/books?id=LZFdsjYWPNwC&pg=PA57&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ritchie&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  5. ^ Bale, Tim (2010). The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron. Cambridge: Polity. p. 314. ISBN 978-0745648576. http://books.google.com/books?id=mX7oN8L6PvAC&pg=PA314&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Ritchie&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  6. ^ Childs, Sarah (2007). Women and British party politics: descriptive, substantive and symbolic. London: Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 978-0415366823. http://books.google.com/books?id=LZFdsjYWPNwC&pg=PA57&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ritchie&f=false. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  7. ^ Williams, Rachel (2010-06-10). "Overhaul of child protection will put social workers back on frontline". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/10/review-child-protection. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  8. ^ Appleyard, Diana; Shoshana Goldberg, Amanda Ward. "Is sex really better after 40? : Fifties". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-177236/Is-sex-really-better-40.html. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
  9. ^ Taraborrelli, J. Randy (2002). Madonna: An Intimate Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780756779436. http://books.google.com/books?id=yj1PTnse9-gC&pg=PA353&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Shireen&f=false. 
  10. ^ Avery, Laura (2002). Newsmakers: 2001 Cumulation. Detroit, MI: Gale Research. p. 398. ISBN 978-0787653484. http://books.google.com/books?id=8GVmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&dq=%22Shireen+Ritchie%22+-inpublisher:icon&hl=en&ei=3VAtTPWhLcL68AaX_7isAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 

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