Jon originally trained as an adolescent specialist nurse before moving to an nurse advisor to a strategic health authority and then went onto a role as a young people’s health service commissioner. He worked briefly as an advisor to two World Health Organisation projects before becoming the lead for early help provision and multi-agency working in a large local authority. He became an education safeguarding advisor 10 year ago and for the last four years has worked as the Director of Safeguarding for a large multi-academy trust. In his spare time he is a voluntary youth worker, and independent listener in a specialist boarding school and in the 4th year of his PhD studies. When (if) he ever relaxes he is a keen fan of Korean drama.