However, for Gateshead's director of children's services Maggie Atkinson, her inauguration today (9 April) as the first female president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) is less noteworthy, than the fact she is the first person to head up the organisation alone. Atkinson, who was vice president of the ADCS, says: "I have two very big pairs of shoes to fill, following former joint presidents John Coughlan and John Freeman. That's quite a double act to follow -...