1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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
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.
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.

5. 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.

6. 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!

7. 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).

8. 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.

9. 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
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.
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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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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