As political parties, large companies and even football clubs will testify, it is hard to replace an established leader when the person in the top job has had a sustained period of success.
So when Anne Longfield left 4Children earlier this year to become the new children's commissioner for England, the charity was faced with the question of how to replace someone who had been at the organisation for 27 years - 21 of those as chief executive. Rather than turn to someone with a track record in children's services, it appointed Imelda Redmond, who had been working in senior roles in adult services for two decades, the most recent as director of policy and public affairs at Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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