Thanos Morphitis is currently Director of Strategy and Commissioning for Islington Children’s Services and NHS Islington. Thanos plays a lead role in the children’s trust, chairing a number of borough-wide strategy boards and leading a number of strategic developments including community budgets. Prior to this, Thanos was Assistant Director for CEA@Islington, the Council’s education partner, taking responsibility for strategy and service delivery across a wide range of services including special educational needs, school admissions and exclusions together with responsibility for special schools and PRUs and oversight of a number of mainstream schools in the borough.

Previously, Thanos was Deputy Director of Education and in addition to the above responsibilities, led on the establishment of one of the first fully integrated Early Years Services nationally. He has also held responsibility for youth and play services, adult education and careers. Thanos started his career in youth and community education services, working in the voluntary sector for 10 years.