Heidi has been a qualified social worker since 1997 and has experience of both adult and children’s services. She has worked in both the statutory and third sector provision and since 2007 has worked as a manager within Suffolk’s Youth Justice Service (YJS) (part-time) as the lead for quality assurance and practice development. Within the University of Suffolk, she is a senior lecturer in Social Work. Heidi is passionately committed to social justice. She is the safeguarding trustee for Outreach Youth, a charitable incorporated organisation for young people who are LGBTQIA+. Her interests include social work practice learning, relationship-based, trauma-informed practice and exploring co-production with children and young people in the youth justice system.