Jenni Whitehead has worked with and on behalf of children and young people for over 30 years; she is presently employed by Education Bradford as their Lead Officer Child Protection.

Jenni is known for her strong commitment to multi-agency working – she works on many of Bradford’s Safeguarding Board’s sub groups that have responsibility for developing child protection policy, procedures and multi-agency training.  Jenni is in daily contact with schools – offering advice, helping schools to develop child protection policies and offering training to child protection co-ordinators and whole staff teams. Jenni is also the editor of Protecting Children Update.

Linda Evans is the editor of G&T Update newsletter and SENCO Update e-bulletin. She was a teacher/SENCO/adviser/inspector, before joining the publishing world. She now works as a freelance writer, editor and part-time college tutor.

Pat’s background as a research scientist has led to her interest in the idea of babies and young children as researchers, and to recognising the value of involving families in their children’s learning. She has extensive experience of the early years field and provides training for a wide variety of audiences including teachers, early years and childcare practitioners, early years professionals and multiagency children’s centre staff teams.

Together with Linda Thornton, Pat edits Early Years Update newsletter and e-bulletin, and has co-authored many books on early years learning and development.