Mark Rogers has been appointed Solihull Council's acting chief executive. Currently director of children's services, he will carry out both roles while the council prepares for inspections in spring 2008. Rogers was head teacher of a special needs secondary school in Tameside before working for the council.

Skills for Justice has recruited Alan Woods OBE as its chief executive. Woods is currently chief executive at environmental charity Encams and will join the justice sector skills council on 3 October. He led Encams to a position in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for in 2006 and 2007.

Roland Earl has been appointed business development director at the National Children's Bureau. Earl was previously deputy director-general of the UK trade body for toy and game manufacturers, the British Toy and Hobby Association.

David Hawker, who is to become Westminster Council's deputy chief executive and director of children's services in October, has been made a professor by the College of Teachers, Britain's oldest professional body for teachers.

The Caldecott Foundation has named Sharon McDermott as head of education at its residential school for abused and neglected children in Kent. McDermott has 13 years' experience working with fostered children as part of the foundation's integrated service programme.

Bord na Gaidhlig, the organisation that overseas Gaelic language education, has appointed Kenneth Murray as chief executive. Murray is a native Gaelic speaker and has spent the past 26 years working for the Forestry Commission.

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