Children In Need boss resigns over grants to LGBT Youth Scotland

The chairwoman of BBC Children in Need has resigned, after reports she protested over grants given to an LGBTQ+ youth charity whose former chief executive was jailed for child-sex offences 15 years ago.

Rosie Millard, a former BBC journalist, served as Children In Need’s boss for six years.

In the letter, seen by The Times, Millard reportedly criticised the charity and its chief executive Simon Antrobus for his response to the controversy after it emerged that Children In Need provided funding to LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS), an organisation supporting queer youngsters in the devolved nation.

In 2009, the LGBTYS’s chief exective Jame Rennie was convicted of the sexual abuse of a young boy and was involved in what was thought at the time to be Scotland’s biggest paedophile network.

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