The Right Honourable Professor
The Baroness Hollins
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 November 2010
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1946-06-22) 22 June 1946
SpouseMartin Hollins
ChildrenAbigail Witchalls
OccupationProfessor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London

Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins, (born 22 June 1946)[1] is a professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George's, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire.[2][3]

Baroness Hollins founded the visual literacy charity Beyond Words in 1989 to produce word free books for people with learning disabilities.[4] She is chair and series editor for Beyond Words[5]

She was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2005 to 2008, succeeded by Dinesh Bhugra.[6] From 2012 to 2013 she was president of the British Medical Association and was formerly chair of the BMA Board of Science.[7] In 2014 Pope Francis appointed her a member of the newly created Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.[8] The Baroness is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Child Protection and is President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.[9] She was appointed in 2019 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to chair the Oversight Panel to oversee Independent Care, Education and Treatment Reviews of people placed in Long Term Segregation.[10]

Personal life

Hollins is married to Martin Hollins. She is the mother of Abigail Witchalls, who was stabbed and left paralysed in 2005,[11] and has a son, Nigel. She is a Roman Catholic.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Democracy live". BBC. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "No. 59608". The London Gazette. 18 November 2010. p. 22229.
  3. ↑ "Professor Sheila Hollins appointed to the House of Lords". St George’s, University of London. 5 October 2010. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  4. ↑ Salman, Saba (4 June 2019). "People with Learning Disabilities must be put at the centre". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Sheila Hollins". Beyond Words. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Update from the President: Professor Sheila Hollins". RCPsych News. Royal College of Psychiatrists. July 2008. Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "Profile: Sheila Hollins". British Medical Association. Archived from the original on 22 July 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  8. ↑ "Pope Names Members of Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors". Zenit News Agency. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Who's who at the RMBF". Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  10. ↑ "Independent Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews". GOV.UK. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  11. ↑ "Stab victim mum in Lords". ITV. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  12. ↑ Burne, Ciar (20 March 2006). "Catholic weekly 'The Tablet' re-launches". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
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