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Baroness Louise Casey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
440 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

It'll be, I don't know, something about poor people.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

It'll be about victims of crime.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

It'll be about domestic violence.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

It'll be something, it'll be about older people not having good enough social care.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

And so it's very personal.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

And I find it, I don't often do newscasts, I've never been to Hay, but perhaps I shouldn't say this, but I find it really, really, really hard when they, whichever government it is, don't enact perfectly sensible, good recommendations.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

And so I don't give up on the grooming gang ones from last year.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

I went to Rotherham a decade ago to do a very specific job.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

We essentially took out the local authority, the democratically elected members.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

We took out the leadership of the local authority.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

And by we, the government of the day did that.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

That wasn't a Labour government.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

It was a Conservative government and replaced them with commissioners that over a period of time improved Rotherham.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

What I personally regret is that I then, on the back of Rotherham, a colleague of mine, Sarah Kincaid, wrote, these are the 10 other things that every local authority in the country could do, and nothing really happened on the back of that.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

I moved on to sort out vulnerable families and supporting families, and I moved on to other things.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

And last year, Alex, I felt

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

A bit upset with myself, annoyed with myself that I'd let a ball drop and that perhaps I should have done more to follow up those recommendations.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

Whether you have a team or don't have a team, I just... And so on the audit...

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

I am literally determined.

Newscast
The Louise Casey Interview (Live at Hay Festival)

So we've got a deal now on taxis.