THE former CEO of the Care Quality Commission has been appointed to lead the trust taking over Bradford’s Children’s Services.

Eileen Milner will head up the trust, which has been named Bradford Children’s Company.

Earlier this year it was revealed that the service, judged inadequate in 2018, would be taken out of Council control and instead run by a trust.

The announcement followed a review that concluded the Council “lacked the capacity and capability to improve services at pace on its own.”

Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, Leader of Bradford Council, said: “I’m delighted that our work with the Department for Education brought forward an outstanding candidate like Eileen to lead our children’s company.

“This new company will use all the talents we have nationally and locally to manage children’s services in the district through its next phase of improvement.”

Until October she was Chief Executive Officer of the Education and Skills Funding Agency and had previously been Executive Director at the Care Quality Commission.

Eileen has recently announced that she is standing down from her current role with the Combined Authority for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

She left that role after 10 months, reportedly after a disagreement with Cambridgeshire & Peterborough CA mayor Nik Johnson (Lab).