Annie Hudson

Annie Hudson was, until March 2020, Strategic Director, Children's Services in Lambeth Council where she successfully led work to transform and improve children's services, previously she was Chief Executive of The College of Social Work until its closure in late 2016. Prior to that Annie was Director of Children's Services (DCS) in Bristol.

Annie trained and practised as a social worker in Brighton and Newcastle upon Tyne. She was then a lecturer in social work at Manchester University where she researched and published on child protection, young women's experiences of care and social work education. In 1989 Annie returned to local authority work as a social work manager in Bristol.

As Bristol's Director of Children's Services, Annie worked with the BBC on the highly acclaimed 'Protecting our Children' TV series. In 2012 she was given a national Social Worker of the Year award for her 'outstanding contribution to social work'.

Annie has held a range of national and regional children's services roles with particular interest and focus on adoption, serious youth violence, child safeguarding. She is currently a Trustee of the Board of the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE). She is a member of the Association of the Directors of Children's Services.

Annie is delighted to be joining Oxfam at a critical point in its development. Annie is Oxfam's lead trustee for safeguarding and will from April 2020 chair our Safeguarding & Ethics Committee, she will be seeking to help make these issues fully integral to all aspects of Oxfam's vital and inspirational work across the world.