Deadline nears for CYP Now Awards

CYP Now has assembled a judging panel packed with expertise to study entries in 22 categories that represent the full range of services for children and young people.

The confirmed judges are: Fran Beck from Telford & Wrekin Primary Care Trust; Fiona Blacke, chief executive of The National Youth Agency; Jim Bond, chair of The Fostering Network; Michael Bracey, head of Southend Youth Service; Keith Brumfitt, strategy director at CWDC; John Coughlan, director of children's services at Hampshire County Council; Centre for Excellence and Outcomes chief executive Christine Davies; John Freeman, director of React; Penelope Gibbs from the Prison Reform Trust; Dylan Harrison, manager of Bushbury Triangle Children's Centre; Central London Connexions chief executive Chris Heaume; Daycare Trust joint chief executive Emma Knights; Children's Rights Alliance for England national co-ordinator Mike Lindsay; 4Children chief executive Anne Longfield; Devon County Council lead officer for children's equality Jeanie Lynch; Sandra Melville, chair of the Play England Council; The Peace Alliance chief executive Reverend Nims Obunge; YoungMinds campaigns director Lucie Russell; Mike Thomas, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers; National Children's Bureau deputy chief executive Sally Whitaker; Kevin Williams, chief executive of The Adolescent and Children's Trust; and Howard Williamson, professor of European youth policy at the University of Glamorgan.

Download an entry form at www.cypnawards.com. The deadline is 10 July. The awards ceremony will be on 26 November at the Hurlingham Club in west London.