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Interview: A matter of faith - Mike Seaton, national secretary, Methodist Association of Youth Clubs

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The political pendulum could be seen to be swinging away from the faith-based youth work sector, if the recent refusal by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to fund several faith-based projects is anything to go by (CYP Now, 30 January-5 February).

Interview: Information is power - Louise Macdonald, chief executive, Young Scot

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Louise Macdonald, is positively evangelical about the importance of information for young people.

LGA's new children's champion: Anntoinette Bramble, chair, LGA children and young people board

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Derren Hayes meets Anntoinette Bramble, chair, LGA children and young people board.

Outsider with ambition: Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive, Become

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Derren Hayes meets Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of charity Become.

Interview: Luke Lancaster, junior chief executive, Young Pioneers

Monday, November 29, 2010

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.

Lead member supreme - Shireen Ritchie, chair of the children and young people board, LGA

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Shireen Ritchie's mother was adopted. So when she was elected to the council, she wanted to sit on the adoption and fostering panel.

Interview: Happier families: Elspeth Bromiley, family therapist for children and adults, Liverpool City Council.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Interview: Simon Davies, chief executive, Teenage Cancer Trust

Friday, April 30, 2010

Simon Davies describes his job as a personal "battery charger". "Everything we do ignites me with passion," says the chief executive of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Mr Pugnacious - Barry Sheerman MP, chairman, Children, Schools and Families Select Committee

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Barry Sheerman bridles at recent suggestions that the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee carries little influence. "Some irritating journalist said that select committees make no difference but I don't believe it," he says.

Interview: A vision for mental health - Sarah Brennan, chief executive, YoungMinds

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The government may now be paying more attention to the state of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), but the stigma surrounding mental illness is still strong.

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Derren Hayes speaks to the Refugee Council’s head of children’s services on post-Brexit support for unaccompanied children.

Tsar for social mobility: Dame Martina Milburn, chair, Social Mobility Commission

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Derren Hayes speaks to Dame Martina Milburn, chair, Social Mobility Commission.

Agent of change: Ann Coffey, Independent Group for Change MP for Stockport

Monday, June 24, 2019

Derren Hayes talks to Ann Coffey, Independent Group for Change MP for Stockport.

Champion for children's rights: Carol Homden, Coram chief executive

Monday, September 23, 2019

Derren Hayes talks to Carol Homden, chief executive of Coram.

Interview: Paul Oginsky, government adviser for the National Citizen Service

Monday, January 10, 2011

Chirpy, down-to-earth Scouser Paul Oginsky has for the past four years been youth policy adviser to his Old Etonian master, David Cameron.

Interview: Karen Wright, chief executive, Shaftesbury Young People

Friday, August 6, 2010

Shaftesbury Young People was founded in 1843 to support street children in London. Its first school, for 150 boys and girls, was based in the hayloft of a cowshed in Holborn. By 1900, the charity was providing residential care for more than 1,000 children.

Interview: Will Tuckley, chair, London Serious Youth Violence Board - Capital crime fighter

Monday, February 8, 2010

As timeframes go it is a tight one, but Will Tuckley, chair of the London Serious Youth Violence Board (LSYVB), likes it that way.

Interview: Catherine Doran, director of children's services, Harrow Council

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Engaging with health professionals is notoriously difficult. But Catherine Doran, the new director of children's services at Harrow Council, has seen things from the other side.

Interview: Chris Hanvey, chief executive, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Having begun his career in social work, Chris Hanvey is in a strong position to comment on the subject of child protection.

Meet the president - Kim Bromley-Derry, president, Association of Directors of Children's Services.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Kim Bromley-Derry has just left a meeting with the children's inter-agency group. He's had a busy day, but has managed to squeeze in half an hour for our interview.

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