Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock

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Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock, (born 29 March 1965), is a crossbench peer and current British government official, where she serves as lead non-executive director. She was the deputy director of Shelter in 1992, the head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit (RSU) in 1999, a director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit (ASBU) in 2003, head of the Respect Task Force in 2005 and the UK's first Victims' Commissioner in March 2010. She became director general of Troubled Families on 1 November 2011. In February 2020, Boris Johnson appointed her as an adviser to help tackle homelessness, and she was later appointed as chair of the Rough Sleeping Taskforce, which was set up to curb rough sleeping during the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020 she was nominated for a crossbench peerage. In August 2021, Casey was appointed to review the circumstances and prepare a report on the spectator invasion of Wembley Stadium, London, in July 2021 when thousands of ticket-less spectators broke through...

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