Shireen Ritchie was a
Kensington and Chelsea Councillor from 1998 representing the Brompton ward on the council. In 2008, she provided testimony as part of the
Home Affairs Committee hearings on Trade in Human Beings. She was involved in efforts of the Conservative Party to raise awareness among constituents about the importance of the issue of diversity to the party, including the party's
Women2Win efforts in 2005, and
Priority List (A-List) candidates, for which she received scorn from other Conservative party members. She held a seat as the Chair of the party's Candidates Committee and was named as a 'Champion' for the
Conservative Women's Organisation. While she was chair of LGA's Family and Children's Services in 2010, the department underwent an effort to reduce paperwork to "ease the pressure on social workers and increase the quality of care offered to children." She was a member of the
Family Justice Review Panel. On 25 June 2010, Ritchie was created a
life peer as
Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, of
Brompton, in the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and she was
introduced in the
House of Lords on 29 June 2010. ==Personal life==