Managing policy development with a view to delivering legislative change through the regulatory reform programme. Working with internal policy colleagues and external stakeholders to promote excellence in regulation, policy development and engagement.

I have produced, chaired and spoken at high profile public debates, including events at the Museum of London, St Martin's College of Art and Design, Barbican and Royal College of Art. I have also appeared on BBC One's Sunday Morning Live, and on a podcast for Ireland's Newstalk, and spoken at debates organised by the National Housing Federation and ResearchED. Others include ...

I led on the coordination and development of strategy, policy, performance management and practice, in the Children’s Services Directorate; contributed to the improvement of strategic planning and policy; and was responsible for briefing, and providing research and policy support to the Strategic Director of Children’s Services, across education, children’s social care and commissioning.

Commissioned to audit, review and revise, write or rewrite all Adult Service policies, strategies, guidance, procedures and publications (including Local Account). This included those relating to practice and services, safeguarding, information and data management, adults with disabilities, paying for care, workforce, service monitoring and performance - to ensure they comply with legislation and statutory guidance, support local practice and are up-to-date.

Commissioned to prepare local partnership for Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI), (thematic inspections by Ofsted, CQC, HMIC and HMIP looking at how well local agencies work together) of services for vulnerable children and young people. This included writing JTAI Inspection Preparation Plan and Self-Assessment of multi-agency Front Door and response to older children living with neglect.

Commissioned to review, (re)write and update suite of policies and procedures - including Looked After Children, Safeguarding, Early Help and SEND - to ensure they are compliant with legislation and statutory guidance, support local practice and are up-to-date. Wrote Self-Evaluation for Mock Inspection of Children's Services utilised to prepare for Ofsted Inspection - the outcome of which exceeded expectations. Prepared partnership for Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) of services for vulnerable children and young people by Ofsted, CQC, HMIC and HMIP; and wrote Self Assessment of Multi-Agency Front Door and response to children living with Domestic Abuse.

Commissioned by Barking, Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge Transforming Care Partnership (Councils, CCGs and NHS Trusts), to write Tri-Borough Transforming Care Plan for submission to Department of Health. As required by Transforming Care Programme, to improve the lives of children, young people and adults with a learning disability (or autism) displaying challenging behaviours, including those with mental health condition.

SLIC was a cross-borough partnership between GPs, Guy’s and St Thomas’, South London and Maudsley, and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts, the Councils, CCGs, and voluntary and community sectors of Southwark and Lambeth. I managed multiple initiatives across workstreams including: a community engagement project to generate citizen-led ‘i-statements’ for commissioning of all health and social care in Lambeth and Southwark; co-production of innovative ‘catheter passports’ project shortlisted for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Involvement to Impact Award. King’s Fund report found my ‘involvement of citizens in Older Peoples Programme’ to be a ‘major achievement’.

Commissioned to write Haringey’s response to Department of Health's Caring for Our Future consultation; following local consultation with stakeholders on the White Paper proposals for reforming care and support.

I established, following a successful bid for 6-months funding from DCLG, the borough’s flagship big society research project (featuring prominently in the Labour Group manifesto). It achieved its objective of promoting the independence of 'vulnerable' older people in the community. I also twice successfully bid for £100k+ DH winter funding to lead social work (2011) and multi-agency Warm and Well teams (2012) to provide package of positive support and interventions to prevent avoidable and more costly service dependency; and secured Leisure Services funding to extend a network of volunteer-run internet drop-ins across the borough’s libraries. Neighourhoods Connect continued to flourish into 2016 with the support of Groundwork London and Better Care Fund.

I led Adult Services Policy Team, and overhauled policies to facilitate, Transforming Social Care (TSC) agenda, corporate restructure and centralisation of policy functions across the Council. As member of TSC steering group, I led on policy and user/carer engagement and co-produced suite of policies and procedures to support Personalisation agenda. I established a network of user/carer reference groups and lay representation on Older People, Carer, Disabilities and Mental Health Partnership Boards. I successfully bid for £100k+ from Department for Communities and Local Government to fund Neighbourhoods Connect, a project which I was then commissioned to manage.

I led, as the sole policy offer for much of this period, on writing policies, procedures, strategies and briefings across the directorate, ensuring compliance with national legislation and guidance. This included Looked After Children, Family Support and Child Protection; and the Corporate Parenting and Young Carers Strategies. I also established the Corporate Parenting Board (of Elected Members), the Policy Sub-Committee to the Local Safeguarding Board, and set-up, recruited to and managed Access to Files team.