Toni joined Creative Education Trust following his role as Assistant Director of SEND and Inclusion for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire local authorities. Toni started his journey with SEND working as a residential care-worker before training as a mainstream primary school teacher, but returned to his interest in working with special needs and vulnerable children early in his career, moving into primary and secondary special needs schools from 1998. He has been a headteacher in three residential schools with specialisms in social emotional and mental health and autism and associated complex needs. Toni has been chair of a national network of SEMH schools, which has led to successful experience as a consultant, supporting special and mainstream schools, academies and local authorities to develop their SEND and alternative provision offers and has supported specialist schools and settings across Europe and with the Ministry of Education in New Zealand.