Wonder Woman
From leaving school at the age of 16 without a qualification to her name, to last year
winning the Liverpool Woman of the Year Award, Sue Sherman is a woman of many
talents. We caught up with her to find out what it’s like to be labelled as a hero in your
hometown
ast year, Sue Sherman won the Woman of the Year Award at the in Bolton and one of the things we had been dealing with was how a child
Liverpool Daily Post Women of the Year Awards. Not only is she feels when they have had everything taken away from them, placed into
a barrister, Sue is a foster carer, Managing Director of Amper- foster care and the only thing they still possessed was their name.
sand Communications and partner of Mark Wright, Manager of “T_he importance of pronouncing and spelling a child’s name is invaluable. So
Chester Football Club. However, it was none of the above that won her the as I was sat in the motorway traffic for ages near to the bridge and I could see
award. that the female police officer was just not even getting an acknowledgment
Driving home to the Wirral from a training course in Bolton last year, Sue from the girl, the girl had closed down.”
encountered heavy delays on the M60. As Sue drew closer to the reason for It was at that point that Sue chose to do something not many of us would
the motorway delay, to her horror, she realised that police were trying to have done. She pulled over and offered to help.
bring down a girl from a bridge and save her from committing suicide. By “I got out the car and told the officers that from what I could see the female
sheer coincidence, the course Sue had just been on was to teach foster carers police officer was getting nowhere and that I deal frequently with teenagers
how to engage with withdrawn children. in a psychiatric vulnerable state.”
“On the morning of the incident I had been at a foster care training course Describing how she helped save the life of this vulnerable 15-year-old girl,
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