[8] In 2014 Pope Francis appointed her a member of the newly created Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

In 2011 she gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about the harassment and intrusion into family life caused by members of the media following her daughter’s serious injury in 2005.

On 17 March 2022, Baroness Hollins put forward an amendment to the Health and Care Bill in the House of Lords to pass The Oliver McGowan mandatory training into law.

[13] The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement that regulated service providers must ensure their staff receive learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role.

She is the mother of four children including Abigail Witchalls, who was stabbed and left paralysed in 2005,[15] and has a son, Nigel.