Gill Frances, chair of the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group, said: "We are delighted to welcome Dawn who has already shown a proven commitment to tackling teenage pregnancy and can now help us take forward the issues in her new government department."
Kate Green, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group, said: "We have worked with her in the past and know that child poverty is an issue close to her heart. She was very heavily involved with tax credits in the early days and they have played an important part in reducing child poverty, so we hope she'll be just as energetic in her new brief. She will be a very high-profile spokesperson for children, but we need more than words."
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