I'm Partnerships and Development Director at the NSPCC. I'm responsible for our work in partnership with others preventing child abuse and neglect, and creating and applying learning for the benefit of children.

My Fellowship looked at elements of success for children and the role of evidence-based programmes. Most come from the USA, which ranks poorly in comparison to other rich countries in comparative measures of child wellbeing. I sought to understand leading US researchers' views of a good society for children. I visited countries in northern Europe where children's welfare ranks best, and explored attitudes to rights as well the use of programmes developed in the USA. I emerged with a view that evidence does matter, but use of structured research-based approaches work best in a framework of children's rights. I also called for increased investment in research into prevention of child maltreatment.

Since then, I've worked with colleagues inside the NSPCC and with many others in children's services and research to advance children's rights, for example equal protection from assault, and to create new evidence of what works at a community level in keeping children safe.