THE head of children’s social care in West Somerset, Linda Barnett, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s List.Linda Barnett (pictured) began her career in social services in the London borough of Haringey in 1972 and has since worked briefly in education and probation, and has managed Somerset’s Youth Offending Team and since 2004.
After five years managing children’s services across Taunton and West Somerset, she set up and managed Somerset’s first multi-agency Youth Offending Team, which has a national reputation for leading the field in restorative justice in schools, parenting work, mentoring (the PROMISE Mentor Scheme) and running successful panels where local people support community-based referral orders and youth inclusion panels.
Mrs Barnett said: “It is a great honour and tribute to all the hard work that has been done through the Youth Offending Team and partner agencies working to achieve the very best outcomes for children and young people.
“The most rewarding part of all has been meeting and working with young people in Somerset themselves, and experiencing with them how they have been able to turn their lives around.“
Mrs Barnett is married with two children, Vayla, who recently graduated from Manchester University, and Dominic, who is at the University of Kent, in Canterbury.
She will officially receive her MBE in a formal ceremony to be held at Buckingham Palace later this year.
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