In terms of prominent positions in children's services at the moment, they don't come much more high profile than leading Doncaster's Children's Services Trust.
Launched on 1 October, the trust has taken over responsibility for a range of children's services following years of concerns about the quality of provision at the authority, culminating in last year's highly critical government-commissioned report by Professor Julian Le Grand from the London School of Economics and Alan Wood, director of children's services at Hackney Council. The concept of hiving off responsibility for services to a separate entity is backed by the government as a way of turning around troubled departments.
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