Convention 2012 – Promoting Delivery: Enabling Change

Contributors’ Biographies

Carol Stone, Chair CHYPS

Carol Stone started out as a youth worker in Sheffield many years ago,

having accidentally stumbled across a youth and community work course

whilst looking for something different. She has worked in youth and

community work, and community/adult education in a number of local

authorities, and has managed services in Manchester, Wigan and latterly,

Calderdale. Carol has evolved during the last year, and is now an Early

Intervention Service Manager for Calderdale Council, bringing together

preventative services for children, young people and families in one area

of the borough. She also has responsibility for youth work, and children

and young people’s Voice and Influence. She lives in Manchester, and is

currently on a personal mission to make more use of its cultural

opportunities. She was, of course, right to be concerned about

Manchester City!

Jayne Ludlam, Interim Executive Director, Sheffield City Council

Jayne Ludlam is the Interim Executive Director of Children, Young

People and Families Portfolio in Sheffield. Previous to this, Jayne

was Director of Children and Family Services in Sheffield for 4

years, 1 of which she was Deputy Executive Director. Jayne has

worked in senior positions in the voluntary and community

sector and in Local Government. Jayne found her passion for

working with children as a part time Youth Worker whilst training

in industry to be an Accountant.

Jayne is a qualified Social Worker and was privileged to be part of

the Professional Development Group to devise the NICE Guidance for working with looked after

children. Jayne has a particular interest in vulnerable families and is passionate about the health

and wellbeing of children and their families.

Young Advisors & Young Inspectors

Jordan Sheppard and Hassan Ahmed are part of the Young

Inspectors project. The Young Inspectors are a trained group of

young people that inspect leisure activities, services and venues

throughout Sheffield to assess how fun, inclusive and user-

friendly they are. The Young Inspectors have devised a set of

assessment criteria which they are using to review the leisure provision for young people in the city.

They are undertaking ‘mystery shop’ type inspections to assess services against their criteria and

award them with a star rating accordingly.

Olivia McLeod, Director, DfE

Olivia McLeod joined the Department for Education as Director,

Supporting Delivery Group in December 2009. She has recently

returned to this role following maternity leave and her

responsibilities include overseeing delivery of the Children, Young

People and Families Directorate programme, youth policy,

partnership with health and local government, relationship with the

voluntary and community sector, managing the department’s

legislative programme and strategy, research and analysis.

Previously, Olivia led on looked after children and youth justice for

the Scottish Government. During a career which began in the Home

Office, Olivia has worked in the No 10 Policy Directorate, in the

British Embassy, Washington DC and as Head of Crime Reduction in

the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Mark Carriline, ADCS & Director

Mark began his career as a maths teacher before joining

Rochdale Education Department in 1987. He then worked in

Wigan, Salford and Bradford, where he was Assistant Chief

Executive responsible for education, community development

and social care. He moved to Bury in 2007 as Assistant Director

(Prevention & Partnerships). He has been Director since January

2011. Mark sits on the ADCS Children, Families and Young People

Policy Committee. Mark lives in Stockport and is a single parent

to three children aged 20, 17 and 11. He enjoys going to the gym,

watching football and live music.

Peter Mucklow, National Director, Education Funding Agency

Peter is National Director for Young People at the EFA in the Department

of Education. He leads on funding all publicly-funded 16-19 learning in

England, funding learners with learning difficulties and disabilities from

age 19-25, the funding of bursaries for 16-18 year olds and the Youth

Contract. Peter was formerly Deputy Director for youth policy at DfE.

Prior to that he was Director of Planning, Performance and Partnerships

in Sheffield City Council’s Children and Young People’s Service. In the

early 2000s Peter was Deputy Director for FE Funding and Policy in the

then DfEE and led on developing the Success for All Strategy, and prior to

that he led the setting up of the Learning and Skills Council. Peter is

married with two teenage daughters and lives in Sheffield and his

hobbies include dog walking, hill walking and playing football.

Tony Tweedy, Director, Sheffield City Council

Tony Tweedy is Director of Lifelong Learning, Skills and Communities in Sheffield

City Council. He is responsible for all aspects of policy and development for

Integrated Youth Support, including the Youth Service and the Youth Offending

Service;, 14-19, including 16-19 planning, the raising of the age of participation;

Foundation Learning and vocational education for schools and academies,;

Employment and Skills for young people and adults, including apprenticeships; Adult and Community

Learning; Community Cohesion.

He has a background in schools, colleges and HE where he has taught every age group from 11 to 75

and at every level from Basic Skills to degrees. His management roles in FE and local government

have included adult learning, community regeneration, curriculum development, external funding,

quality assurance and inspection. He is the chair of the city's Youth Strategy Group, the 14-19

Learning for Life Partnership and the Prince’s Trust Board for South Yorkshire. He is also the lead

officer for the Sheffield Employment and Skills Delivery Partnership, and a supporting officer for the

skills work stream of the Sheffield City Region LEPTBA – 24/10

Karen Buck MP, Shadow Education Minister

Karen Buck is Member of Parliament for Westminster North and

Shadow Education Minister. Karen leads on the Labour Party policy

review on services for young people. She has served on the Select

Committee for Home Affairs and a member of the Select Committee

for Children, Schools and Families. Karen was named Child Poverty

Action Group's MP of the Year in recognition of her work to alleviate

conditions of young families living in poverty.

Tony Gallagher, National Adviser, Ofsted

Ofsted national adviser on youth support, Tony’s previous work

includes the management of Ofsted's national programme of

inspections of local authority youth services, leadership of Joint

Area Reviews (JARS) of Children's Services, as well as inspections

of FE, adult and community education, Connexions, youth work,

the voluntary and community sector and 14-19 provision. He has

also been engaged in national surveys covering areas such as

citizenship education, PSHE, extended services, children's

centres, alternative education, information advice and guidance

and integrated youth support. Tony has published eight national

survey reports for Ofsted the last entitled 'Approaches to

Commissioning Young People’s Services'.

Karen Turner, Deputy Director, NHS

Dr John Coleman, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University

Dr John Coleman is a clinical and developmental

psychologist. He was for many years the Director of the

Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA), and since October

2006 he has been a Senior Research Fellow in the

Department of Education at Oxford University. He is the

author of numerous books, including “The nature of

adolescence” (Routledge, 2011), now in its fourth edition.

He has worked closely with government, and has been a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of

Health, where he worked on emotional health and well-being in children and young people. He is the

Chair of the Association for Young People’s Health and a Trustee of Parenting UK, and of the Family

and Parenting Institute. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for services to youth justice.

Karen Turner has wide experience working in the health sector with 20

years in NHS Management. She has spent the last 10 years in the

Department of Health working on children & young people’s policy. She

is now Deputy Director within the Children, Families & Maternity branch

responsible for delivery in children’s emotional and physical health.

Barbara Rayment, Director, Youth Access

Barbara Rayment is Director of Youth Access, the national membership

association for young people’s information, advice, counselling and

support services.

She has over 30 years experience of working in services for young people.

Over the years, she has been a member of various national forums and

committees and a number of Government advisory and working groups.

Her current work includes: Chair of the Children and Young People’s

Mental Health Coalition and membership of the DH’s Expert Group on

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies to Children and Young

People.

Louise Casey, Head of the Troubled Families Unit, Communities & Local Government

Louise Casey is Director General of the Troubled

Families programme at the Department of

Communities & Local Government. She is working

to the Secretary of State on the Prime Minister’s

commitment to turn around the lives of 120,000 of

the country’s most troubled families. She took up

post in November 2011.

Louise was formerly the first independent

Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses, acting to

promote the interests of victims and witnesses in Whitehall, the Criminal Justice System and beyond.

Previously Louise was Director General in the Home Office, heading up the Neighbourhood Crime

and Justice Group. Prior to that, she carried out an independent review from the Cabinet Office

which took a detailed look at the public’s view on crime and how to engage them in tackling it. In

2005, Louise was appointed as the head of the cross-government Respect Task Force which worked

to tackle anti-social behaviour by getting to its causes through programmes such as parenting and

intervention and support for problematic families. Before that, she was the Director of the Home

Office’s Anti-social Behaviour Unit.

Louise also led the successful strategy to reduce the number of people sleeping rough and

established the Homelessness Directorate in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Between 1992

and 1999, Louise was Deputy Director of Homelessness Charity Shelter and, prior to that, held a

number of posts in the social welfare sector.

Louise was awarded the Companion of the Order of Bath (CB) in the Queen’s birthday honours list,

2008.

David Wright, CEO, CHYS

David Wright has been the Chief Executive of CHYPS since March 2010.

He began his career in 1981 with a voluntary organisation in East London,

moving into local government first in Norwich, and then joining Sandwell

in 1998. There he managed an ever-changing and diverse service that

included Residential Education Centres, Healthy Schools and the Drugs

Education and Treatment team (DECCA) that won 2 “Children & Young

People Now Awards”. Throughout he’s been responsible for Sandwell

Youth Service leading it through a successful OfSTED in 2006.

Rosina St James, Chair, British Youth Council

22-year-old Rosina St James became Chair of the

British Youth Council in September 2012, after

serving for one year on the BYC Board as Vice Chair

of Participation & Development.

Rosina has spent the past five years as a part time

Youth Participation Support Worker in Croydon. She

is currently a Youth Ambassador for Safer London

Foundation in which she helps to support

Metropolitan Police's Children & Young People's

Strategy, and is also a trustee for vinspired. At 17 years old, Rosina started her own social enterprise;

TIA (The Inner Attitude) which works with young women in order to help develop self-esteem,

confidence, and identity during a 13-week course; leading to a theatrical performance. Rosina

recently received a Rare Rising Star Award for being a one of the top ten most outstanding black

students in the UK.

James Cathcart, CEO, British Youth Council

James joined BYC as CEO in Jan 2008 having worked ten years

at The Prince's Trust HQ. He's done lots of different jobs with

young people, as a Probation Officer, a social worker, a youth

worker and a mentor- but started it all as a community

volunteer, building an adventure playground!

Sue Quinn - NYA

Sue joined the National Youth Agency in 2004 and is an

experienced National Programme Manager with an

extensive background in services for young people. Her

current role with the Agency is National Programme

Manager on the LGA Routes to Success and the British

Council Youth in Action programme. Routes to Success is a

quality, improvement and support programme designed

to support councils with their young people’s services and

includes a knowledge hub, national conferences, and a number of Tailored Support consultancies.

Her previous roles with the Agency include National Programme Manager for quality and

improvement, responsible for a number of quality developments which include the National Youth

Agency Quality Mark and National Award, as well as a diverse portfolio including the 14-19 Agenda,

and the improvement, quality and integration developments within Integrated Youth Support

Services. Previously Sue was Youth Service Manager in the Merseyside and has more than twenty

five years experience in an extensive range of roles in both the voluntary and statutory youth sectors

managing a variety of young people’s services.

Tim Eyres - CHYPS

Currently employed as the Head of 11-19 Strategy &

Commissioning within Children’s Services, Tim operates as

one of two ‘age and stage’ commissioners. This involves him

working closely with my 0-11 counterpart, specialist

commissioners and external partners. Tim’s professional

background is local authority youth & community work,

having been involved in youth work since the early 1980’s

and in Norfolk since 1997. In 2005 as Children’s Services was

developed, he moved from being the Operations Manager of

the Youth Service to an area service manager responsible for

operationally managing different professional teams. Tim moved into his current role in 2010.

Tim Leaman - ASDAN

ASDAN Education is a charitable social enterprise, helping young

people and adults of all abilities to achieve more through explicitly

developing skills for learning, skills for employment and skills for life.

The ASDAN network stretches over 6000 centres across the UK, with

a growing international portfolio.

Tim is the National Development Co-ordinator, Non-Formal

Learning: Head of Community Volunteering Qualifications (CVQ),

Personal and Social Development (PSD) Qualifications (QCF), Short

Courses and the non-formal education sector (covering LAYP, young

people's services and more recently offender learning). Tim is also Vice-chair of Awards Network

(formerly NfAYPA).

Paul Oginsky – Adviser, Cabinet Office

Born and still living in Liverpool, Paul Oginsky is the

government advisor on National Citizen Service and Personal

and Social Development and the Chief Executive of the

Personal Development Point organisation. A founder of two

youth charities Weston Spirit and The Young Adult Trust, Paul

speaks extensively on the concept of personal and social

development. Paul advises political parties, charitable trustees,

local governments and large cooperate organisations on

effective youth development. “Paul Oginsky has a fantastic

track record of inspiring a generation of young people to live

lives of purpose and achievement,” Prime Minister Rt. Hon.

David Cameron MP. He once won £20,000 on a TV game show,

he has run 10 marathons and parachuted 84 times. He is

happily married and has a son Lee (19) and daughter Siobhan

aged 17 years.

Susan Blishen - Mental Health Foundation

Susan Blishen is the Project Manager for Right Here, a £6m joint initiative

between Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Mental Health Foundation to

improve young people’s mental health and well-being. Susan has extensive

project development and management experience, having set up and

managed three special initiatives for Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Social

Justice Programme, including Right Here. Prior to joining Paul Hamlyn

Foundation, Susan worked in publishing and literature promotion.

Successful projects which she initiated and ran during this time include the

publishing industry’s first World Book Day.

Lester Vaughan, Head of Youth Support Service, Enfield

Lester has been Head of Youth Support Service at the London

Borough of Enfield for the last five years and is a qualified Youth &

Community Worker. Lester was brought up and educated in

Scotland, before moving down to Enfield in the mid - eighties to take

up post as a full-time youth worker for Enfield Council. In the late

eighties Lester moved job to work in Hertfordshire for The County

Council working for Hertfordshire Youth Service and Hertfordshire

Connexions before moving back to work for Enfield Council in 2008

as Head of Service. Lester recently became a Director for Chyps and

sits on the Board representing the London region.

Tim Crabbe, Chair, Substance

Tim Crabbe is a founder member and Chair of the social

research co-operative Substance. He has a wealth of experience

picked up from a variety of roles in academia, campaigning,

media, sports development and manual labour. He enjoyed a

distinguished academic career and was Professor of Sociology

at Sheffield Hallam University before helping to found

Substance where he has led on a series of key projects

including the data, tools and systems strand of the Inspiring

Impact programme; development of a shared impact

measurement model for the sport for development sector; evaluation of the national Positive

Futures programme; delivery of the Information and Signposting Project for the DfE; and the

strategic development of the Views project management and impact reporting platform. He also sat

on the Advisory Board for the Catalyst Outcome Framework for the Youth Sector and the Quality

Standards for Positive Activities Expert Support Group for the DfE. Born and bred in south London,

Tim is a lifelong Crystal Palace fan who also fondly remembers his days as a binman with the London

Borough of Bromley.

Cllr Jackie Drayton, Cabinet Member for CYP&F, LL&S, Sheffield City Council

Don Stewart, Chair, NYA

Don’s career spanned over forty years of experience in the public

sector.

He worked in a number of different Whitehall Departments as well as

Government Offices in the North West and Yorkshire.

He was a founding Director of Yorkshire Forward and Special Projects

Director of Welcome to Yorkshire where amongst other things he

worked on the London 2012 Olympics.

He is a member of the Yorkshire Regional Council of the Princes’ Trust;

a member of the Screen Heritage UK Programme Board and also represents NYA on the Board of

Youth Access.

Jackie is currently Cabinet Member for Children, Young People &

Families, Lifelong Learning & Skills of Sheffield City Council. She has been

a Councillor for the Burngreave Ward, where she lives, for the past 14

years. She was Lord Mayor of Sheffield 2006-2007 and is a trustee of

South Yorkshire Community Foundation and the JG Graves Trust. She

worked in Primary, Further and Higher Education and Community

Development for over 25 years. Jackie has just been appointed as one of

the 6 “Champions” for Reducing Infant Death in Sheffield.

Cllr David Simmonds, LGA

David is chair of the Local Government Association Children and Young People’s

board. A Councillor for Ickenham since 2002, he serves as Deputy Leader of

Hillingdon London Borough Council and is responsible for education and

children's services. David is also Vice-Chair of the National Employer’s

Organisation for School Teachers as well as Treasurer of the Conservative

Councillor’s Association and serves as an associate non-executive director in his

local NHS and as a magistrate in the London Borough of Brent. When welcoming

the new MYP’s for Hillingdon, David said "These are young people with lots to

say. Their drive and determination to make their voices heard and raise the issues affecting their age

group show that the future of our borough will be in safe hands”

Kate Chester, Ambition

Kate has 10 years of experience in the social regeneration and educational

field. She is the author of the published report, ‘Apprenticeships within the

Housing Sector’ which was commissioned by the National Housing

Federation. Her career to date includes designing a wide range of pre-

employment programmes for socially excluded communities and managing

large funded personal and social development programmes for young

people in youth clubs. Kate joined Ambition in 2010 and she is currently in

the process of replicating, for the first time in the UK, an American youth

programme called Skills for Adolescence.

Jim Minton, London Youth

His background is in strategic communications, and he has

worked in senior roles in government, covering immigration,

crime and policing, in corporate social responsibility and for a

number of UK based voluntary organisation. He has also been a

specialist consultant leading strategic communications for

development programmes in Africa, the middle east and the UK.

Jim is chair of governors for a community school in East London

for children with behavioural difficulties. He has an MBA from

London Business School, and a degree from the University of

York.

Jeremy Wyatt, Hall Aitken

Jeremy currently leads the team supporting the £280 million

myplace programme involving 63 new youth centres around

England. This includes supporting capital, viability and youth

empowerment. His particular interest is in performance

improvement and impact evaluation. He is a member of the

Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network’s methodology

sub-committee and Chair of the UK Network Council .

He started out as a volunteer and then employee with the

Scout Association. Since then he has worked in senior

management roles in public, private and third sectors. During

15 years of consultancy his focus has been on improving the effectiveness of public and third sector

interventions. Jeremy holds an MBA, is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel

and Development and a Certified Professional Facilitator.

Ian Cruise-Taylor, Chair, Myplace Network

Ian has been working with and for young people for over 40 years.

He worked for the careers service in the midlands, where he was

also involved in establishing a charitable counselling service for

young people and also in developing early versions of youth

opportunities programmes.

The introduction of Connexions saw Ian working in the West

Country, until he moved back to the Midlands to lead the Black

Country Connexions Partnership. More recently he helped Walsall

Council integrate its young people’s services, before taking

responsibility for developing Walsall Myplace in 2010. Ian is

currently the chair of the Myplace Network Steering Group.

Dominic Cotton, Director of Communications, UK Youth

Dominic joined UK Youth in 2011 as the Director of Communications and

Business Development. He is a former BBC journalist who has worked for a

range of other national charities. Outside of work Dominic is a keen cyclist,

having completed both The London- Paris bike ride and the Alpine Challenge

in 2012.

United Futures brings together businesses with youth organisations, to offer

work placements, volunteers, mentors, fundraisers and product donations

as well as financial backing. This project is led by a group of national

charities with relevant expertise - Business in the Community, National Children's Bureau and UK

Youth. Having also run his own social enterprise Dominic has a keen interest in this subject area.

Angela Taylor - Sheffield Young Council & UKYP

Angela has worked for the Children’s Involvement Team (Sheffield

City Council) for the past four years and has been leading on the

Young Inspectors project since it began in 2010. The Children’s

Involvement Team works to ensure that children and young people

have a say on issues that affect them and their community. We

offer a range of services that include: bespoke child friendly

consultations, training around children’s involvement, producing

our own resources including publications, toolkits and DVDs ,

strategic guidance for organisations and general help and support

with involving children and young people. We also co-ordinate and

support Sheffield’s Young Inspectors.

Clare Humberstone – Children’s Involvement Manager

Clare has managed the Children’s Involvement Team (Sheffield City

Council) since the project began eleven years ago.

The Children’s Involvement Team works to ensure that children and young

people have a say on issues that affect them and their community. We

offer a range of services that include: bespoke child friendly consultations,

training around children’s involvement, producing our own resources

including publications, toolkits and DVDs , strategic guidance for

organisations and general help and support with involving children and

young people. We also co-ordinate and support Sheffield’s Young

Inspectors.

Young Advisors, Sheffield

Sheffield Young Advisors are young

people aged between 16 and 19 (up to

25yrs for young people with additional

needs) who show community leaders

and decision makers how to engage

young people in community life. They

make sure Young People are given the

chance to be involved in decision making

and influencing change, regeneration

and renewal.

Young Advisors are trained and employed young consultants who guide local authorities and other

local partners about what it is like for a young person to live, work, learn and play in their area. They

are specialists in advising agencies and services on how best to engage with young people.

David Blunkett MP, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

David was elected as a councillor in Sheffield at the age of 22,

becoming leader of the Council and later elected to Parliament in

1987. After serving on the Shadow Cabinet, he became Education and

Employment Secretary in 1997, Home Secretary in 2001, and Work

and Pensions Secretary in 2005. Since leaving government, in

addition to completing his diaries, “The Blunkett Tapes”, David has

undertaken a series of major pieces of work, including on anti poverty,

affordable credit and social mobility, a review of the future role of

the community and voluntary sector; chaired a major review of

dedicated school transport; undertaken a review of police

accountability for the Home Office which helped shape a subsequent

Government White Paper; and served on the Speaker’s Conference

which recommended substantial changes to improve representation in the House of Commons.

As well as working on behalf of his constituency and contributing to a number of voluntary and not-

for-profit organisations, David is now being a constructive thorn in the side of the coalition

government. Indeed, following publication of National Volunteer Programme, a blueprint for a large-

scale youth volunteering initiative, he founded the Future For Youth Foundation, a new charity that

will create meaningful, supported eight-month volunteering and social action placements for young

people out of work, education or training. In September 2012 he published In Defence of Politics

Revisited, where he set out a range of proposals to increase faith in, and improve the working of,

democratic politics. Most recently he was awarded status as an Academician of the Academy of

Social Sciences.

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