Peter Duxbury, currently executive director of children’s and adults’ services at Lincolnshire County Council, was offered the job earlier this month following a series of interviews, including one by a panel of four young people.
He will take up the director of children’s services post in Birmingham from the beginning of April, replacing Eleanor Brazil who was drafted in by government on a temporary basis to overhaul local services as part of an improvement notice.
Duxbury became the director of children’s services at Lincolnshire in 2005 and led the authority from being rated adequate by Ofsted to outstanding.
Prior to that he worked as a social worker and youth justice worker at several local authorities in the north-west of England before becoming assistant director of children’s services in Liverpool in 2001.
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