Previously he has worked with young people at risk of care and custody in Southwark, run a Pupil Referral Unit in NW Kent, worked as 2ic English in a Woolwich boys school, as Behaviour Support Centre Manager and Director of Extended Services at Deptford Green, and as SENCO in a Lewisham comprehensive. He enjoys playing music inexpertly on a variety of instruments including the bodhran and the bass guitar and enjoys all forms of art though he can’t draw horses. Post degree he has studied, amongst other things, Community Leadership at NCSL and Birkbeck, Educational Leadership at the Institute of Education and Critical Friendship at Canterbury Christchurch College. After reading ‘The Moon’s a Balloon’ while at school he was determined to work towards a checkered career, an aspiration he feels he has met.