[3] She then entered the education department of the London County Council as a care committee organiser.
[8] Four years later, in 1976, Margaret Thatcher offered her a seat in the House of Lords and after an initial refusal[3] she accepted a life peerage with the title Baroness Faithfull, of Wolvercote, in the County of Oxfordshire on 26 January.
[10] She was a vociferous opponent of Home Secretary, Michael Howard's Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill of 1994 which proposed the establishment of secure 'training centres' in the grounds of adult prisons for children aged between 12 and 14, arguing that locking up children is ineffective and that the huge cost of these could be better spent intervening with families at an earlier stage.
[11] She was trustee of a number of voluntary organisations, notably the Caldecott Community, and Bessels Leigh schools.
[10] In 1993 she founded the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works as a child protection agency helping sexually abused children and their families.