Carolyne Willow, director of children’s rights charity Article 39, was awarded the Outstanding Leadership prize at the Sheila McKechnie National Campaigner Awards.
Willow won the award through ensuring the government kept in place long-standing statutory social care duties to children, judges said.
Most recently, Article 39 launched a judicial review over the introduction of exemptions to children’s social care in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Despite a High Court judge ruling that the Department for Education did not act unlawfully by introducing the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, Willow is now awaiting the results of a Court of Appeal hearing on the issue.
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