Alan Wood, who led the ADCS in 2014/15, has received the accolade in the New Year's Honours list having previously been awarded a CBE in 2011.
In recent years he has advised the government on a number of children's services issues. In 2016 he was appointed by the government to review local safeguarding children boards and recommending that they be scrapped and replaced with a new system.
Also in 2016 he was appointed by the Department for Education as chair of an advisory group on the role of councils in children's lives, looking at their responsibility for early years, special educational needs and school improvement.
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