About Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly
Dame Lorna Boreland-Kelly, DBE JP FRSA
Dame Lorna has over 40 years’ experience of managing, leading and developing Social Care services, which includes setting up a range of Social Care Academies in a number of Local Authorities for Children and Adult Services. She has project managed the setup of these Academies to attract, recruit, develop and retain social workers and managers. She is a specialist in workforce development including advising on improving and developing race equality standards. She delivers executive coaching, mentoring and 1-1 Wellbeing and Safeguarding supervision of Children and Adults to senior managers in a wide range of settings, including in education, social care and the private and voluntary sectors. She set up one of the first ever Social Work Academies for the London Borough of Croydon in January 2010. She received national recognition for this.
Dame Lorna is an experienced senior manager and has worked as a consultant for a number of councils since 2013 to the present time. As well as undertaking independent training and consultancy she has been involved in major transformation projects. She is a Trustee of the Association of Child Protection Professionals. She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Peer Power Youth who are a Leading Youth empowerment charity. She is a member of the Black Leadership Group.
Dame Lorna previously Chaired the Governing Body of Lambeth College, a large Further Education College from 1992 to 2013. She has also served as the Vice-Chair of Governors in a Catholic Secondary School. At the Judicial appointments commission (JAC) where she served for six years, Dame Lorna was one of the five lay members of the JAC. This body was set up in 2006 to appoint judges in England and Wales.
Dame Lorna has spoken and chaired national conferences and has also carried out commissioned work with the Home Office and led Reviews for Local Safeguarding Boards.