Charities can still have a campaigning voice even if they are dependent on the government for the majority of their funding, Lord Victor Adebowale, the chief executive of the charity Turning Point, has said.

Lord Victor Adebowale, the man appointed to monitor a new way of allocating social housing, today pledged to ensure that giving people more choice about where they live will not create racially divided communities.

Despite Blair's rhetoric, Labour still doesn't take the voluntary sector seriously as a provider of public services, Lord Victor Adebowale tells Alison Benjamin.

Charity chief executive Victor Adebowale explains how he plans to kick start a stalled regeneration project - but don't label him a troubleshooter.

Name: Lord Victor Adebowale
Age: 39
Job title: chief executive, Turning Point
Profile: Lord Adebowale joined the drugs, alcohol and mental health charity Turning Point as chief executive in September after spending most of his career in the housing field, including five years as chief executive of homelessness charity Centrepoint. He was made a people's peer in April.