Chaired by journalist and broadcaster Winifred Robinson
Naomi Eisendstadt: has spent her entire professional career caring for children one way or the other- academic, voluntary sector and latterly at the heart of this government's early years reforms - for a time with responsibility for Sure Start, the government's flagship scheme to provide family support services in Britain's poorest areas - and at the heart of the DfES as Chief Adviser on Children's Services to the Education Secretary. She plans to maintain her close interest in child development in the new role she took up only a month ago, as head of the Cabinet Office's Taskforce on Social Exclusion.
Howard Goodall: Almost everyone knows at least one of Howard Goodall's popular
TV themes - Blackadder, Mr Bean, Red Dwarf, The Catherine Tate Show, - and probably much of the rest of his prolific and successful creative output as a composer for the theatre and for choirs. As well as presenting the BBC's Choir of the Year, Chorister of the Year and Young Musician of the Year, he has written and presented his own often award-winning music documentaries for Channel 4. His latest series was How Music Works, aired last November. In July 2006 he was honoured with a Doctorate of Music in recognition of his contribution to music education. He is a trustee of The Sage Gateshead, and Chair of the National Vocal Strategy on behalf of Youth Music and the Music Manifesto, and is to be the recipient of the 2007 Making Music/Sir Charles Grove Prize for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
Professor Lord Robert Winston: well known to audiences throughout the world for his several BBC television series (including The Human Body and Superhuman) he has a great capacity for communicating often complex science to a wide public audience. He is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, and a world-renowned fertility expert. He also heads the Department of Reproductive Medicine at London's Hammersmith Hospital. Founder of the first NHS IVF Programme, he is also an author and was created a Life Peer in 1995.