Dame Louise Casey CB

Biography

Louise Casey became Director General, Casey Review Team on 20 July 2015. At the request of the Prime Minister, she led a review into opportunity and integration in some of our most isolated communities.

Career

Louise started her career in the social welfare sector and has held the following roles:

• Deputy Director of Shelter, the homelessness charity, from 1992 to 1999
• Director of the Home Office’s Anti-social Behaviour Unit
• Head of the cross-government Respect Task Force, tackling anti-social behaviour
• Director General in the Home Office, heading up the Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Group
• the first independent Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses, representing the interests of victims and witnesses in Whitehall and the criminal justice system
• Director General of the Troubled Families Team

Louise received the Companion of the Order of Bath (CB) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2008 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016 for services to families and vulnerable people.

Previous roles in government

• Director General, Casey Review Team
  • 2015 to 2017
• Director General, Troubled Families
  • 2011 to 2015

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• Bravery and leadership
  • 12 July 2016
  • Speech
• Women’s Aid conference
  • 10 March 2014
  • Speech
• Local Government Association annual conference
  • 16 July 2013
  • Speech
• Troubled Families Programme
  • 16 July 2013
  • Speech

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