Yolanda Corden obituary

Over the years my friend Yolanda Corden, who has died aged 76, made an immense contribution to the welfare of children as a senior social worker in London and, latterly, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire and Coventry.She had a particularly strong impact in Hackney, where in the late 1990s she consolidated the council’s new, centrally based independent child protection unit, and at Gloucestershire county council, where she was interim head of children’s services (2003-04), transforming