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 Lucy Kate Barnes

CEO & Co-Founder @ Lawyers Who Care CIC, Pupil Barrister at East Anglian Chambers

 Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker & Care Experienced and Neurodivergent Advocate

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One of the most inspiring speakers I've ever heard. 

Event Delegate (see full testimonials below)

January 2025

Lucy shortlisted as a finalist in the Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Year in the 2025 Women and Diversity in Law Awards for her social mobility advocacy.

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May 2024: Lucy launches Lawyers Who Care CIC...

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#100faces campaign

Lucy was recently selected as one of the #100faces for the UniversitiesUK's #100faces campaign, celebrating the voices of 100 university graduates who were the first in their family to go to university. 

BBC 4 Women's Hour (28th Dec 2023)

BBC4 Women's Hour (28 Dec 2023)

"We always bring a little spark in some way, and that's just waiting to be found."

 

Lucy Barnes BBC 4 Womens Hour

Listen here to me discussing barriers for care-experienced young people in higher education alongside presenter Krupa Padhy and Rebecca Munro (also CEP)

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'How can we effectively be a voice for care-experienced clients and share their stories in court if we do not yet understand, or give visibility to, care experience? For care-experienced people, access to the profession is access to justice'

Lucy Barnes, 14 June 2024 article for The Bar Council 'Raising the Bar: Care-experienced people belong here.'

I write for The Bar Council on care experience and belonging in the legal profession 
13 July 2024

20th & 21st June:

 

Co-chaired the annual NCCTC Children's Commissioners Conference alongside Kathy Evans, previous CEO at Children England. I also delivered my keynote address 'From Foster Care to Lawyers Who Care.'

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TESTIMONIALS:

Martin Quinn, Organiser of the NCCTC Commissioners Conference (June 2024):

"Lucy co-chaired and delivered an amazing keynote address at the two-day Commissioners’ Conference. Lucy managed this brilliantly and came across as if she had been doing both for many years! Her keynote was one of the highlights of the two days and delegates have asked if she can come back next year. Lucy speaks with passion and intellect, tailors her involvement to the audience in front of her and I can’t recommend her highly enough."

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