Rowling’s agent and Chairman of Pottermore, is the Chair of the Board of Trustees Peter McDermott joined as CEO in June 2021 succeeding Interim CEO, Sir Roger Singleton. The charity has received 19 reviews on the employee ratings website, Glassdoor, and has an overall score of 2.4 out of 5. Georgette Mulheir stepped down as CEO in 2020 after trustees identified "management and cultural challenges" and commissioned independent reviews into governance and culture. Even before the regulations were passed, as a result of years of advocacy and awareness-raising, this principle of funding supporting ' deinstitutionalization' (DI) had already helped divert more than €367 million of EU funding away from institutions towards community services. Lumos and other organisations have worked to encourage the European Commission to establish regulations that state that fundings to EU Member States must be used for community services, not to build or renovate residential institutions. Rowling stood down as a trustee in 2013 but continued as the charity's president.
The name Lumos comes from a light-giving spell in the Harry Potter books. The Children's High Level Group was later relaunched as Lumos. It was a very shocking realization to me and that's where the whole thing started." As a result, she co-founded the Children's High Level Group with Emma Nicholson to address the problem of institutionalised and disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe. This touched me as nothing else had because I can think of nobody more powerless than a child, perhaps, with a mental or a physical disability, locked away from their family. She said: "I looked at that photograph of the boy in his cage bed and felt he had absolutely no voice. Rowling felt compelled to address the problem. In 2004, after seeing an article in The Sunday Times about children being kept in caged beds in institutions, J.