Lyn Romeo CBE

Lyn Romeo CBE

Location: London | UK


Chief Social Worker for adults

Lyn Romeo CBE

Department of Health Richmond House Whitehall London

Lyn Romeo has been the Chief Social Worker for Adults since September 2013

Previously, Lyn worked as the Assistant Director for Adult Social Care in the London Borough of Camden. She has also worked as an inspector with the Social Services Inspectorate, as well as working in Yorkshire for over 20 years as both a field social worker and in a variety of management roles across children and adults.

The Chief Social Worker for adults role

Lyn supports and challenges the profession to ensure that children and adults get the best possible help from social workers. She provides independent expert advice to ministers on social work reform, and the contribution of social work and social workers to policy implementation more generally.

Lyn delivers leadership and works with key leaders in the profession and the wider sector to drive forward the improvement and reform programme for social work. She challenges weak practice to achieve decisive improvements in the quality of social work and provides leadership to the network of principal social workers

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