This Christmas, she retires after a decade driving youth policy in Whitehall, for the past two years as head of the Youth Taskforce.
During what Weinstock quips is her "exit interview", she is full of vim, talking up the major reforms. She lauds the 2005 Youth Matters green paper as leaving a "legacy of record investment in positive activities that I never thought I would live to see".
She says plans for the youth professional status, recognising a core set of skills shared by youth workers, will place them in higher public regard. "The ambition I have is that people see and respect those who work with the nation's young people in just the same way as nurses are seen as the guardian angels of the health service," she says.
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