Christine has an economics degree and has training in finance and contract law; she has worked as an economist and corporate banker. Christine also has a sound therapeutic training and practiced in a therapeutic community with children and adults.

Altogether, this breadth of experience underpins Christine’s expertise in creating strategic and operational, commissioning and service delivery frameworks at national, regional and local levels. She thoroughly understands the public, private and voluntary sector multi-agency service delivery agenda for children, families and vulnerable adults. And because she is knowledgeable about child and adolescent (and adult) development and the impact of trauma she is good at keeping the needs and outcomes for the service user at the heart of the service.

Christine’s current work includes national initiatives, projects at regional and local government level and also direct work with children and families, young people and vulnerable adults. Past work, at national and local level, has included developing strategy and policy; writing practice procedures and toolkits; delivery, monitoring and change management of services; piloting new approaches e.g. payment by results; scrutiny and quality assurance.

Christine is currently doing a professional doctorate on teenage intimate partner abuse at the International Centre, University of Bedfordshire.