Rachel Dickinson, executive director of people at Barnsley Council, is likely to need to draw on the famed Yorkshire grit over her coming year as president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS).
Dickinson, brought up in Leeds, takes up the presidency at a time of great uncertainty over the future of children's services. Much of this year will probably be spent lobbying ministers for more funding for children's services in the run up to the Comprehensive Spending Review in late autumn. This looks likely to be set against a backdrop of Brexit uncertainty and proposals to reform local government finance that could see poorer areas lose millions of pounds of central government funding.
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