Dame Christine Lenehan, who is also retiring as strategic director of practice and programmes at the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) received a standing ovation following her speech to 200 guests at Westminster Hall on Monday (26 September).
Lenehan, who will formally step down from both roles on Friday (29 September), reflected on her career which began as a teenage volunteer in long-stay mental illness hospital before training as a residential social worker.
She became director of the CDC in 2003, having joined the NCB in 2000 and was awarded an OBE (order of the British Empire) in 2009 and a damehood in 2016 in recognition of her work.
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