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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Ronke Martins-Taylor

2 mins read Children's Services Letters
For Ronke – it is the life lived that we celebrate and not the life lost.
Ronke Martins-Taylor served as divisional director, youth and commissioning at Tower Hamlets Council
Ronke Martins-Taylor served as divisional director, youth and commissioning at Tower Hamlets Council

Ronke has touched the lives of so many people. Her smile, care and positivity was always so infectious. Sometimes quietly nudging, sometimes less subtly as she always saw potential in others and her encouragement that anything was possible has supported many to reach their full potential.

Ronke’s connection to young people was so genuine, with her approach supporting their talents and strengths, advocating, being relentless and never accepting anything but the best for them.

Ronke was one of the disproportionally few black managers that progressed into the senior ranks of our professions and her illness definitely robbed her of the director of children’s services (DCS) role she so richly deserved.

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