His post sits in the Lifelong Learning, Skills and Communities department. Martin is charged with making decisions on where to focus spending and how to measure which local families meet the criteria. He is also overseeing the development of information sharing between agencies involved in the scheme.
He says the downside of being a pioneer is that the programme is always subject to change. “We might work out a way of doing things and then Louise Casey [heading up the programme nationally] might come up with a better way.”
But one of the rewards of the job is the ability to make things happen. “We put some key workers into training. When they came out they were saying this is great, this is what we came into this job to do,” he says. “If key workers think this is helpful, that is the most rewarding bit.”
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