I am a retired Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and worked as a NHS Consultant in Public Health in Cambridgeshire from 1996-2012. During this time I did 2 part-time secondments to the Department of Health: between 2008 and 2010 I was the National JSNA lead and in 2004 I worked on the Children's NSF (National Service Framework) and the development of what has now become the Healthy Child Programme. I also worked as a Locum CPHM at Cambridgeshire County Council for a year in 2015, covering the Children's agenda and latterly JSNAs and a Health Inequalities Impact Assessment. I am currently Chair of Pinpoint (the Parent Carer Involvement Forum for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities). Until recently I was an active trustee of the British Dyslexia Association (BDA), and remain a trustee of the Peterborough and Cambridgeshire District Dyslexia Association (PaCDDA).In 2013/4 I did a consultancy for Hertfordshire County Council helping them to develop an All-Age Autism Strategy, having had a relative with Aspergers who sadly died a few years back aged only 60. For most of my time in Cambridgeshire, I was the Children and Families' Public Health Lead covering everything from screening, healthcare, the Healthy Child Programme and children with disabilities to 'Sure Start', 'Troubled Families', domestic violence, and teen pregnancies. For my last 5 years I also covered Health Inequalities and developed JSNAs for Children and Young People; Adults with Learning Disabilities; the Homeless and those at risk of homelessness; and Travellers. I got funding for a multidisciplinary Travellers Health Team and ground-breaking 'Working Together for Change' workshops with the Homeless, engaging them in developing priorities and services.