Jo Butcher, assistant director for health, wellbeing and environment, is NCB's lead on sustainable development and the taskforce's sole youth sector representative.
The taskforce has formed three working groups: third sector leadership; jobs, procurement and service delivery; and communities. Butcher has convened a working group to identify key learning and messages from activity within the children and young people's sector on sustainable development, which she will feed into the taskforce.
She said: "This group is exploring the important contribution that children and young people make to leadership on sustainable living and climate change nationally and in their communities. They have a significant stake in decisions and must be involved at all levels, utilising third sector organisations' expertise in involving them."
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