Levy, who represented the Department of Health in the Cleveland inquiry into child abuse in Middlesbrough in the 1980s, was described as a "major champion of children's issues" by Maurice Rumbold, interim chief executive of NCH.
Andrew Cozens, president of the Association of Directors of Social Services, said Levy's "lifelong commitment" to improving the care and protection of children "shone though all the work he did in this area".
He said Levy's work during the Pindown inquiry into the treatment and care of young people in some children's homes in Staffordshire was a "landmark for his careful and thoughtful humanism".
Levy was also an author of books on children's law and the way the law should address the abuse of children.
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