Describe a typical day. I deliver training, advise on developing listening cultures in different settings, develop training courses and manage my team. If I'm delivering training it will be over a complete day somewhere in the country.
What other agencies, and who else within your own organisation, do you have to work with? I supervise our development officer who tracks what people do after they've received the training, and our training and events officer. I also network a lot with the early years sector, Children's Rights Alliance for England, the NCB and the Thomas Coram research unit.
How did you end up in the job? I've always worked with those who have little or no voice. I'm from New Zealand, and initially worked there in an inner city primary school. I moved to the Netherlands and worked in an outreach centre with drug addicts. I then moved to a relief and development post where I worked internationally in conflicts, like Iraq in 1991, before starting here.
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