Big interview: Ask all the right questions

Roger Morgan, England's first children's rights director, who has held the title for five years, says he gets more sensible analysis on policy questions from young people than from professional adults. That's just as well, because it is Morgan's job to make young people's voices heard by the Government, the social care inspectorate and local authorities on a wide range of issues, from information-sharing policy to their experience of being a young carer.

That job description sounds very similar to that of the children's commissioner, Sir Al Aynsley-Green, but Morgan's remit is both wider and more narrow. He is empowered to work on individual cases if young people contact him with concerns, something that the children's commissioner is debarred from doing. But the young people in his remit are limited to those who live away from home, such as looked-after young people, or who receive other services from the State, such as young carers.