Jon originally trained as an adolescent specialist nurse before moving to a 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 National Director of Safeguarding for a large multi-academy trust. In his spare time, he is a voluntary youth worker, and mentors six men in industry. In addition, he is just about to complete his PhD in Psychology. When (if) he ever relaxes he is a keen fan of Korean drama (but does need the subtitles).