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Rebel with a cause

Lauren Higgs talks to David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board

Interview: Sarah Teather, minister for children and families

    Features
  • Monday, January 23, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Sarah Teather is apologising that her rather functional Westminster office is not as homely as those of fellow ministers. "You should see some of them, especially the men's - have you seen Tim Loughton's?" she giggles. "They like to nest. But I've not been very good at nesting here."

Interview: Luke Lancaster, junior chief executive, Young Pioneers

    Features
  • Monday, November 29, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Luke Lancaster is still stunned by his double win at the CYP Now awards ceremony in November. His charity, Young Pioneers, gained the Third Sector Engagement Award for its Aspiration Enterprise scheme, while Luke himself was named Children and Young People's Champion. Not bad for someone who has only been in the business two years and is just 15 years old.

Interview: Mark Johnson, founder, User Voice

    Features
  • Monday, November 1, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Mark Johnson is waging a war on interfering middlemen. He's angry young offenders do not have a voice, he's tired of social structures distancing them from policy-makers and he thinks government cuts demonstrate classist principles.

Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

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  • Monday, October 25, 2010
  • | CYP Now
Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips with the role of shadow education secretary after moving from his previous brief in government on health. But the enthusiasm he holds for his new post is clear.

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was awarded a peerage in May, is preparing to get stuck into her new role in the House of Lords, in which she says her old brief will be her top priority.

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