User:Redchoir/sandbox

Lucy Elizabeth Allan ACA LLM (born October 2, 1964) is a family rights campaigner from the United Kingdom. She is founder of Family First, a lobby group which campaigns for improvements to the UK child protection system. A Conservative Councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 2006 to 2012, she is an approved parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party.

Background and Education
She was born in Cheltenham to Richard Glen (b. 1938), a farmer, and Susan Delores (neé Justice, b. 1938), a comprehensive school teacher. Allan was educated at Millfield School and Durham University. She has a Masters Degree in Law. During a gap year she worked in Australia as a shed hand, a fruit picker, and a bikini car wash girl in Alice Springs.

Early career
Allan joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a trainee in 1987, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and specialised in business turnaround. In 1994 she moved Investment Management, reaching director level.

Later career
In 2009 Allan became an Non Executive Director of Wandsworth [NHS].

Political career
In 2006 Allan was elected as a Local Councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth. She was appointed Chairman of Transport and Planning Overview Scrutiny Committee in 2009, and Chairman of Leisure and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee in 2010. In 2008 she was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Putney Conservative Association. In 2009 she joined Wandsworth Conservatives Management Committee.

Community and Voluntary
In 2006 she became a School Governor of Riversdale School. In 2008 she became a Trustee of a domestic violence charity, Women's Aid Federation of England. In 2007 She was appointed Chairman Wandsworth Pupil Referral Unit Management Committee.

Family Rights Campaign
In 2012 Allan fronted a media campaign on Child Protection injustice following her own family's experience of the system. Allan's campaign was covered by the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Times and London Evening Standard. Allan appeared on ITV's This Morning and BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Award wining Journalist Camilla Cavendish featured Allan and her campaign in a 3,000 word article in The Times.