Bridget Kerrigan is the Project Manager for Community Based Budgets for Families with Complex Needs at Birmingham City Council.

Before taking up this role, she worked on Birmingham City Council's Brighter Futures transformation programme, where she project managed a portfolio of evidence based early intervention and prevention pilot programmes. Initially managing their introduction as part of three major randomised control trials, she has led on scale up of these programmes across Birmingham Children’s Centres and schools.

Her previous roles have involved commissioning interventions to improve educational attainment and worklessness in deprived communities in Birmingham, through the New Deal for Communities programme and the Working Neighbourhood Fund

She has worked in Local Government for over 12 years and before this in the voluntary sector. She is a graduate of the University of Birmingham in Public and Social Policy and Management followed more recently by a masters degree in Public Sector Management.