Simon Cordon

Simon Cordon moved to Lambeth in 1998 and has lived in Clapham for the past 16
years. He has served as a councillor elsewhere including as social care lead – where
he pioneered involving people in designing their own services, such as ensuring
children in care were included in shaping their own care plans. Locally, he sits on a
Policing Oversight Board and has chaired Lambeth’s Leaseholders’ Council.

Simon worked in manufacturing and then in the charitable sector with the Terrence
Higgins Trust. Between 2012-24, as operational head of London wide NHS sexual
assault services, he oversaw the creation of the Capital’s first comprehensive NHS
service for sexually abused children. He provided expert evidence to the
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse regarding the shocking historic abuse
in Lambeth’s children’s homes.

He advised the Scottish Government during their legislative response to child sexual
assault, has sat on Met Police strategy (‘Gold’) groups, chaired a London-wide
criminal justice partnership for 12 years and co-designed a statutory / third sector
partnership for survivors.

Simon cares about injustice — whether international atrocities or pressures facing
young people through barriers to home ownership or Brexit‑imposed limits on travel
and work in the EU. Locally he believes in practical action. He contacted the police to
propose a way to prioritise reviewing residents’ CCTV footage within existing
resources — a change they agreed to. He is developing a plan to increase weekend
litter collection on Clapham Common within current budgets.

Simon enjoys walking the Capital Ring with his partner and composes music as a
hobby. “One reason I am standing is to counter Lambeth’s culture of ‘tick box
consultations’ and ‘Town Hall knows best’. I want to use my experience of involving
people in the decisions that affect them to champion a resident-first, resident-led
Council.”