Tributes have been paid to East Lancashire peer and national education expert Baroness Massey of Darwen who died on Saturday aged 85 after a long battle with cancer.
Current Blackburn with Darwen Council education boss Cllr Julie Gunn said she was ‘an ‘inspiration to us all’ while her predecessor Maureen Bateson described her as ‘a great campaigner for the rights of others’.In 2014 Birmingham University graduate Baroness Massey and her all-party parliamentary group for children held an 18-month Parliamentary inquiry into the treatment of children by the police.
Baroness Massey leaves a daughter Lizzie and two sons Owen and Ben. She taught in Africa, the US and London from 1989 to 1994 and also wrote a novel “Love and Death in Shanghai”. “”Her work on social justice, inclusion and challenging discrimination is something that we should all be grateful for.”