Liz has worked in services for children and young people with SEN and disabilities for over 30 years. She currently works with the Council for Disabled Children and Transition Support Programme and has contributed to a range of projects associated with different aspects of the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme. She was Director of Early Support, the Government programme to improve the integration of service provision and partnership working with families with young disabled children. She moved in April 2009, when management of the national programme passed to the Department for Education. Liz began as a teacher of the deaf and has ten years experience as a university lecturer and teacher trainer. She worked in the voluntary sector from 1998 and was seconded to the DCSF from 2003-2009. She has worked overseas, developing services for deaf children and their families in Southern India and Vietnam, and lived for some years in Tokyo.