Patricia Lewsley has stepped down as equality spokesperson for the SDLPand chair of the All-Party Assembly Group on Children and YoungPeople.
She will start the job later this month. She replaces Nigel Williams whodied in March 2006.
Lewsley said: "This is about doing what I do currently in a differentway. As commissioner I will be able to focus all of my energies on thatwork."
The Democratic Unionist Party gave Lewsley a cautious welcome.Children's spokesperson Arlene Foster said: "The DUP has no fundamentalproblem with former politicians holding any post so long as they are thebest candidate for the job."
- See Debate, p12.
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