OBE for services to equality
Queens Birthday Honours 2009
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Salford University
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford Brookes University
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Open University
Simon Fellowship, Manchester University

Wigan Pier Revisited: Cheltenham Literature Festival Prize 1984
The Iron Ladies: Fawcett Society Prize
Campaigning Journalist of the Year 300 Group
Listen to the Children, Dispatches documentary, Independent Television Producers First Time Producers award.