Sir Paul Ennals
Chief Executive
Sir Paul took up the post of NCB chief executive in 1998, having
previously been director of education and employment for RNIB. He
was vice-chair of the government's National Advisory Group on
Special Educational Needs (SEN) from 1997 to 2001, chair of the
Council for Disabled Children from 1993-1998, and founder chair of
the Special Educational Consortium. He was Director of Welfare
Services at Sense from 1983 to 1989.
In 2000 he chaired the DfES-funded independent review of
pre-schools and playgroups. He chaired the DfES/DH working group
which produced the guidance on disabled children aged birth to
three years Together from the Start in 2002 – the precursor to the
Early Support Programme. He served on the DH Strategy Group for the
Children's National Service Framework, and chaired the group which
produced the core standards. In 2003 he chaired the Task Group
making recommendations on children and young people for the
Department of Health Public Health White Paper. He was
shadow chair of the Children's Workforce Development Council, which
went live in April 2005. He chaired Children’s Workforce Network
from 2005 – 2009. He was appointed chair of the Children's
Workforce Development Council in August 2009.
He is vice chair of the Children and Young People’s Inter-agency
Group, a national group of key statutory and voluntary agencies. He
is accountable for the delivery of the Centre for Excellence and
Outcomes in Children’s Services which is hosted by NCB.
He is a founding trustee of End Child Poverty. He currently
contributes to the following groups and boards: Department of
Health Child Health Advisory Group, DCSF Programme Board for
Children in Care, and DCSF Stakeholder’s Board
He received a knighthood for services to children and young
people in the Queen’s birthday list 2009.