Millie has 27 years’ experience as a registered social worker, qualifying in 1994 at Ruskin college, Oxford and more recently, completing her MA in Advanced Professional Practice, in February 2021.

Developing Anti-Racist social work practice is an area of particular interest within her present role and career objectives. She has a wealth of experience in local authority statutory, health and voluntary sector settings, in London and South East England addressing issues such as trafficking, CSE, forced marriage, honour-based abuse, physical abuse, and neglect. Millie has additional experience in working with asylum seekers, families from Black African, Caribbean, and Asian diasporas and diverse communities living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Her work has highlighted the need for partnership working with voluntary sector organisations, health, education, police, and immigration professionals. As a team manager, Millie has led child asylum teams and leaving care teams; and in her role as children's services manager for the specialist FGM Centre at Barnardo’s, her role addressed harmful practices such as: FGM, child abuse linked to faith and belief, and breast ironing/flattening. She was managing director for an asylum seeker supported housing project, where she remains a trustee, before moving into her present role as anti-racist lead practitioner for Brighton and Hove Council.