Anne Longfield, Baroness Longfield
The Baroness Longfield | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs | |
| Assumed office 2025 | |
| Appointed by | Shabana Mahmood (as Home Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Children's Commissioner for England | |
| In office 2015–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Maggie Atkinson |
| Succeeded by | Rachel de Souza |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 31 January 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Party | Labour (2025) |
| Spouse | Richard Reeve |
| Children | 1 |
| Education | Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley Newcastle University |
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Anne Elizabeth Longfield, Baroness Longfield CBE (born 1960) is a Labour member of the House of Lords who formerly served as the Children's Commissioner for England. She was formerly chief executive of the charity 4Children. She was appointed the Children's Commissioner for England in March 2015 and was succeeded at the end of February 2021 by Dame Rachel de Souza. In December 2025, she was appointed to chair a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.