Hanan Ibrahim to be recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Girlguiding UK’s chief guide and the founder of charity Somali Family Group are among those from the children and young people’s sector to be recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Chief guide Elizabeth Burnley has been awarded a CBE after being involved with Girlguiding for over three decades.

Hanan Ibrahim receives an MBE after setting up the Somali Family Support Group in 2001 to support black and ethnic minority families in areas of high social deprivation.

Others to be honoured include Robert Murray, who has been knighted in recognition of his work running community football programme Sunderland Foundation, which has worked with more than 150,000 young people.

Mark Blundell, chief executive of the Salmon Youth Centre, a project in Bermondsey in south east London that has been running since 1907, receives an OBE.

Janet Paraskeva, chair of the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission, has been made a Dame and Prue Leith, former chair of the School Food Trust, receives a CBE.

Angela Sibson, former chief executive of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, which saw its work transferred to the Children’s Workforce Development Council in March, also receives an OBE for her work with children and families.

Hugh Pitman, the first chairman of the Association of Learning Providers, receives an OBE for his services to training.

Those working in schools have also been honoured, including 18 head teachers, 16 school and college principals, 11 school governors, three teachers and two school caretakers.

Among these are Naila Zaffar, who has been head teacher at Copthorne Primary School in Bradford for the past 17 years and receives a DBE.

Jane Arrowsmith, principal of Troup House School, Aberdeen, receives an OBE for services to special needs education.

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Source: CypNow