Herts moves on
22/12/2007
YoungMinds chief executive Barbara Herts is leaving the charity after three years. Recruitment of a successor will begin in the new year.
Interim deputy chief executive Sarah Brennan has been appointed acting chief executive in the interim.
Herts joined YoungMinds from the then Department for Education and Skills in 2005. She has also worked for the National Children’s Bureau. During her years at the helm, YoungMinds successfully lobbied for the Mental Health Act 2007 to include provisions to ensure age-appropriate treatment for under- 18s. It also set up a children and young people’s board to feed views into the charity’s work.
Herts said she felt ‘extremely privileged’ to have led YoungMinds through ‘an exciting period of change’ and ‘to leave the charity at such a high point’.
